Sailfish Community News, 15th May 2025 - BeaconDB

So a prototype of this in my fork of LiveTrack (by @jaykijay and available in the Jolla Store) can be seen here.
I chose to extend LiveTrack primarily because I already use it with NextCloud PhoneTrack, and it therefore had the required plumbing and UI already in place.

I’d appreciate some eyes looking over it for correctness, esp.of the submissions, because it’s a bit had to judge whether you are submitting garbage to BeaconDB - which we definitely do not want.

Unfortunately it looks like Harbour rules would forbid this fork to be entered into Jolla Store.

I also tried to visualize the BeaconDB map (see branch beacondb-map) using the QtLocation/QtPositioning Map QML type, but I can’t figure out which Plugin and PluginParameters to use to get the actual beacondb overlay.
I believe some hints can be found at #91 - Displaying the map coverage layer in OSMAnd or QGis? - beacondb/beacondb - Codeberg.org but I’m not familiar enough with OSM and QtLocation to make a lot of sense of it.

Any hints (or even PRs) would be much appreciated.

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