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/*!
\page location-plugin-osm.html
\title Qt Location Open Street Map Plugin
\ingroup QtLocation-plugins

\brief Uses Open Street Map and related services.

\section1 Overview

This geo services plugin allows applications to access
\l {http://openstreetmap.org}{Open Street Map} location based services using the Qt Location API.

Data, imagery and map information provided by \l {http://korona.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/}{OpenMapSurfer},
\l {http://www.thunderforest.com/}{ThunderForest}, OpenStreetMap and contributors. The data is
available under the \l {http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl}{Open Database License}.

The Open Street Map geo services plugin can be loaded by using the plugin key "osm".

\note Since Qt 5.6.2, the available map types offered by this plugin may change without notice depending on the
actual availability of each provider. To prevent these changes, either a different geo service plugin should be used, or the plugin
parameter \e osm.mapping.providersrepository.address should be set to a user-specified repository, in order to take full control over
(and accept \b responsibility for) selecting the provider that is used for each map type.

\section1 Parameters

\section2 Optional parameters
The following table lists optional parameters that can be passed to the Open Street Map plugin.

\note Since Qt 5.5 all parameters below must be prefixed with \c osm. Previous versions did not require
a prefix.

\table
\header
    \li Parameter
    \li Description
\row
    \li osm.useragent
    \li User agent string set when making network requests.  This parameter should be set to a
        value that uniquely identifies the application. Note that providers might block applications not setting this
        parameter, leaving it to the stock plugin user agent (e.g., \l {http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim_usage_policy}{Nominatim}
        for geocoding)
\row
    \li osm.mapping.custom.host
    \li Url string set when making network requests to the tile server.  This parameter should be set to a
        valid server url with the correct osm api and the \l{Map::activeMapType} to the corresponding \l{MapType}.CustomMap.
        The CustomMap will only be available if this parameter is set.
        \note Setting the mapping.custom.host parameter to a new server renders the map tile cache useless for the old custommap style.
\row
    \li osm.mapping.custom.mapcopyright
    \li Custom map copryright string is used when setting the \l{Map::activeMapType} to \l{MapType}.CustomMap via urlprefix parameter.
        This copyright will only be used when using the CustomMap from above. If empty no map copyright will be displayed for the custom map.
\row
    \li osm.mapping.custom.datacopyright
    \li Custom data copryright string is used when setting the \l{Map::activeMapType} to \l{MapType}.CustomMap via urlprefix parameter.
        This copyright will only be used when using the CustomMap from above. If empty no data copyright will be displayed for the custom map.
\row
    \li osm.mapping.providersrepository.address
    \li The OpenStreetMap plugin retrieves the provider's information from a remote repository. This is done to prevent using hardcoded
    servers by default, which may become unavailable. By default this information is fetched from \l {http://maps-redirect.qt.io} {maps-redirect.qt.io}.
    Setting this parameter changes the provider repository address to a user-specified one, which must contain the files
    \tt{street}, \tt{satellite}, \tt{cycle}, \tt{transit}, \tt{night-transit}, \tt{terrain} and \tt{hiking}, each of which must contain valid provider information.
\row
    \li osm.mapping.providersrepository.disabled
    \li By default, the OpenStreetMap plugin retrieves the provider's information from a remote repository to avoid a loss of service due to unavailability of hardcoded services.
    The plugin, however, still contains fallback hardcoded provider data, in case the provider repository becomes unreachable.
    Setting this parameter to \b true makes the plugin use the hardcoded urls only and therefore prevents the plugin from fetching provider data from the remote repository.
\row
    \li osm.routing.host
    \li Url string set when making network requests to the routing server.  This parameter should be set to a
        valid server url with the correct osrm API. If not specified the default \l {http://router.project-osrm.org/viaroute}{url} will be used.
        \note The API documentation and sources are available at \l {http://project-osrm.org/}{Project OSRM}.
\row
    \li osm.geocoding.host
    \li Url string set when making network requests to the geocoding server.  This parameter should be set to a
        valid server url with the correct osm API. If not specified the default \l {http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/}{url} will be used.
        \note The API documentation is available at \l {https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim}{Project OSM Nominatim}.
\row
    \li osm.places.host
    \li Url string set when making network requests to the places server.
        This parameter should be set to a valid server url with the correct osm API.
        If not specified the default  \l {http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search}{url}
        will be used.
        \note The API documentation is available at \l {https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim}{Project OSM Nominatim}.
\endtable

\section1 Parameter Usage Example

The following example shows how to create an OSM plugin instance with
parameters supplied for an useragent, and if necessary, a custom server url plus the corresponding copyright information for the tile provider.
Additionally, it is possible to choose another routing server than the public osrm one.

\section2 QML

\code
Plugin {
    name: "osm"
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.useragent"; value: "My great Qt OSM application" }
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.mapping.host"; value: "http://osm.tile.server.address/" }
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.mapping.copyright"; value: "All mine" }
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.routing.host"; value: "http://osrm.server.address/viaroute" }
    PluginParameter { name: "osm.geocoding.host"; value: "http://geocoding.server.address" }
}
\endcode

\section1 Other Plugin-specific Information

\section2 Tile cache

The tiles are cached in a \c{QtLocation/osm} directory in \l {QStandardPaths::writableLocation()}{QStandardPaths::writableLocation}
(\l{QStandardPaths::GenericCacheLocation}). On systems that have no concept of a shared cache, the application-specific
\l{QStandardPaths::CacheLocation} is used instead.
*/
