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In Qt Location API page at Nokia website, the link to SDK's download requires login by using my existing account on their web site but keeps saying "Singing in..." and never returns. Anybody has an idea? Has Nokia / Degia shutdown the project?

Update) I'm intending desktop app for a large scale opensource framework in robotics. I'll start from Ubuntu but should support multiple desktop OSs.

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  • What platform are you developing for? – cgmb Mar 16 '13 at 08:57
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    Qt Location was going to be a full add-on module for Qt5, but it seems to be [undergoing some rework](http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/23659). You can find the current state of the module at in the [Qt Mobility repository](http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-mobility). If you're developing for Symbian or MeeGo, I have no idea what you're supposed to do, since those platforms are no longer supported. – cgmb Mar 16 '13 at 08:59
  • @Slavik81 that sounds like an answer at this moment. Why not move it to Answer section so that I can select it as an answer? – IsaacS Mar 16 '13 at 09:15
  • Did you end up getting Qt Mobility to work in your desktop environment? – mdoran3844 Aug 28 '13 at 01:17

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Qt Location was going to be a full add-on module for Qt 5.0, but it was cut and reworked instead. As of Qt 5.5, Qt Location is listed as a Technology Preview, which suggests it will be a standard module soon.

Here's a couple quotes about why it was cut and how it was reworked:

Unfortunately, some modules either lost their maintainers, or their quality was not up to scratch, so they were excluded from the Qt 5.0.0 release. Qt Location did not make the cut, and its code base still requires lots of cleaning up.

The plan is to include those modules when they are ready though.

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A lot of the components in Qt Location have been converted to value types. Previously components such as Coordinate, GeoCircle, GeoRectangle etc were QObjects. Now they are value types which provides a much nicer API.

By the way, Nokia is no longer involved in the development of Qt. I would not recommend downloading an old SDK from Nokia. You can get the most recent release from http://qt.io/download

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  • Do recent releases of Qt, Qt5 and newer, come with the mobility modules or do we have to build them from the repo? – mdoran3844 Aug 28 '13 at 01:06
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    @mdoran3844 The current version of Qt [doesn't list it as an included module](http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.1/qtdoc/qtmodules.html). I believe you will need to build it yourself. – cgmb Aug 28 '13 at 05:29