Default App: GNOME Maps

[Robert Ancell]

Jeremy pointed out that folks dropped out of main in artful, so that would
have to go back in.

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 9:52 AM Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com>
wrote:

> I'm going to copy Jeremy [1] and propose a new default app for 17.10...
>
> I'd like to propose GNOME Maps. This uses gjs so it is include-able now
> gnome-shell is in main. Maps is a core GNOME app.
>
> Mapping is a standard feature of modern operating systems. By including
> maps we also encourage Ubuntu users to improve OpenStreetMap and that
> aligns with our open-source culture.
>
> There are two Universe dependencies:
> - gfbgraph - A fairly simple wrapper library to access some Facebook
> services
> - libchamplain - Map rendering library, Reasonably complex but doesn't
> have any complex dependencies. Probably useful for other apps.
>
> --Robert
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-June/004970.html
>
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