Qt Location Mapbox Plugin
Overview
This geo services plugin allows applications to access Mapbox location based services using the Qt Location API. The use of these services is governed by the Mapbox terms of service. An access token is required to use these services. Data is provided by OpenStreetMap and others.
The Mapbox geo services plugin can be loaded by using the plugin key "mapbox".
Parameters
Mandatory parameters
The following table lists mandatory parameters that must be passed to the Mapbox plugin.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| mapbox.access_token | Access token provided by Mapbox. |
The Mapbox geo services plugin requires an access token and map ID to use the Mapbox services. To create a Mapbox account visit https://www.mapbox.com/#signup.
Optional parameters
The following table lists optional parameters that can be passed to the Mapbox plugin.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| mapbox.mapping.map_id, mapbox.map_id (deprecated) | ID of the Mapbox map to show. An example ID is "examples.map-zr0njcqy". If this parameter is present, the specified map type will be used by default, unless another is selected. If not present, the default Mapbox map ID is "mapbox.streets". |
| mapbox.mapping.additional_map_ids | Additional, comma separated, Mapbox map IDs to be added to the available map types. |
| mapbox.mapping.format, mapbox.format (deprecated) | Data format to download tiles in, available values are "png", "png32", "png64", "png128", "png256", (PNG with full, 32, 64, 128 and 256 color palette) "jpg70", "jpg80", "jpg90" (JPEG with 70%, 80% and 90% compression). Defaults to "png". |
| mapbox.mapping.highdpi_tiles | Whether or not to request high dpi tiles. Valid values are true and false. The default value is false. |
| useragent | User agent string set when making network requests. |
| mapbox.mapping.cache.directory | Absolute path to map tile cache directory used as network disk cache. The default place for the cache is |
| mapbox.mapping.cache.disk.cost_strategy | The cost strategy to use to cache map tiles on disk. Valid values are bytesize and unitary. Using bytesize, the related size parameter (mapbox.mapping.cache.disk.size) will be interpreted as bytes. Using unitary, they will be interpreted as number of tiles. The default value for this parameter is unitary. |
| mapbox.mapping.cache.disk.size | Disk cache size for map tiles. The default size of this cache is 6000 if unitary is used as cost strategy, or 50 MiB, if bytesize is used as cost strategy. Note that 6000 is the maximum amount of tiles that the Mapbox free plan allows to cache. Make sure to comply with Mapbox Terms of Service before increasing this value. |
| mapbox.mapping.cache.memory.cost_strategy | The cost strategy to use to cache map tiles in memory. Valid values are bytesize and unitary. Using bytesize, the related size parameter (mapbox.mapping.cache.memory.size) will be interpreted as bytes. Using unitary, they will be interpreted as number of tiles. The default value for this parameter is bytesize. |
| mapbox.mapping.cache.memory.size | Memory cache size for map tiles. The Default size of this cache is 100 if unitary is used as cost strategy, or 3 MiB, if bytesize is used as cost strategy. |
| mapbox.mapping.cache.texture.cost_strategy | The cost strategy to use to cache decompressed map tiles in memory. Valid values are bytesize and unitary. Using bytesize, the related size parameter (mapbox.mapping.cache.texture.size) will be interpreted as bytes. Using unitary, they will be interpreted as number of tiles. The default value for this parameter is bytesize. |
| mapbox.mapping.cache.texture.size | Texture cache size for map tiles. The Default size of this cache is 30 if unitary is used as cost strategy, or 6 MiB, if bytesize is used as cost strategy. Note that the texture cache has a hard minimum size which depends on the size of the map viewport (it must contain enough data to display the tiles currently visible on the display). This value is the amount of tiles to be cached in addition to the bare minimum. |
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