Just a heads-up for those doing development on Maps (e.g. running from within GNOME Builder), or running the nightly Flatpak release. Currently there is a regression in GJS preventing applications launching Gio.Application using runAsync().

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/work_items/738

As a workaround, one can (temporarily) edit the flatpak manifest in the git clone (when playing with development), or use the --runtime=50 flag (with flatpak run) when running the nightly. Until this gets resolved.

#gnomemaps #gjs

Tuba on Android, new Fractal release, GNOME Fellowship's results were announced and much more in This Week in GNOME!

#253 Fellowships

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/06/twig-253/

#ThisWeekInGNOME #GNOME #TWIG

Here is how you make the blurred background w/ tint fast. Probably will land in a different form, but at least shows how node caching works.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/10026

Been a while… #Fractal 14 is out! 🚀

Details at https://discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-14-released/35460

#Matrix #GNOME

Big thank you to @yayacout for developing a new WiFi algorithm for BeaconDB, which has now finally been deployed!

You should see much more accurate location estimates for WiFi, and if the data doesn't seem up to scratch, this new algorithm will improve estimates with new submissions.

One major issue with the previous area based algorithm was that continually collecting new data would gradually degrade AP estimates over time, instead of improving them. This is now fixed.

Happy Pride month! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Damned Lies, GNOME's i18n platform, got a brand new dark theme, GNOME OS now has better contributing docs and much more in This Week in GNOME!

#252 Stronger Together

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/06/twig-252/

#ThisWeekInGNOME #GNOME #TWIG

#event
DIGITAL INDEPENDENCE DAY #DIDay

Next Sunday we return to our workshop series in which we liberate us from the shitty big tech monopolies

📅 June 7th
🕐 13:00 - 16:00
📍 CoWork @ Rizoma, R. José Estêvão 4, #Lisbon

13:00 Introduction, open discussion
13:45 - 14:00 presentation on @openstreetmap and @transitous as alternatives to Google Maps.
14:00 - 16:00 open discussion and mutual technical support

💻📱Bring your devices!

If you want to change to Linux read:
https://masto.pt/@rizomacoop/116326525320955384

#DIDit

New rules for GNOME Circle, GNOME Maps now allows for installing maps for offline use, Java GTK bindings have their first RC release and much more in This Week in GNOME!

#251 Monitoring Resources

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/05/twig-251/

#ThisWeekInGNOME #GNOME #TWIG

Resources has been accepted into Incubator! Thanks Nokyan for developing such excellent app 🩷

But we also need your help! We need people to test Nightly builds to ensure the app can be accepted into Core.

You can learn how to do it here: https://welcome.gnome.org/app/Resources/#installing-a-nightly-build

#gnome #linux

Thanks to hard work by @flyingpimonster Maps now supports downloading map areas for offline use!

This has been a long-awaited feature and will finally be available in GNOME 51.

#gnomemaps #gnome #mapstodon #openstreetmap #offlinemaps

Another little “side project”: putting some more on Sweden (“färgläggning”)…

Have spent some time lately to extend (and refactor) the Lua script that I wrote some time ago for post-processing the GTFS data from Trafiklab in Transitous. Especially in Kiruna, the likelyhood of the mapping from line name to color seems extra stable, and less likely to change… 😄

🚌🚋🇸🇪

#transitous #motis #trafiklab #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #gnomemaps

Got a bit further on the departures/arrivals view feature.

Now shows a toggle group with tranportation modes available for the selected station/stop (when there are multiple modes served at the location) allowing filtering what to show.

#gnomemaps #gnome #transitous #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #mapstodon

Made some more progress on the implementation of the “stoptimes” API from MOTIS in Maps.
Now actually showing departures (or arrivals) in the place details when clicking on a “public transit-type“ place (station etc.), when there's data available in Transitous.
The rows still only shows the transit mode icon and line number/name (e.g. missing time, destination and so on…)

#gnomemaps #gnome #motis #transitous #PublicTransport #PublicTransit

Celebrating last day of April (“Sistapril”, Valborg, Valpuris) by upgrading to Fedora 44 (with GNOME 50)

😎

#fedora #fedora44 #gnome #gnome50

Cool that Transitous now has schedule data for transit in Tbilisi, Georgia. In a couple of weeks it's exactly 15 years ago I was there on a work trip just about a month after started working for PrimeKey!

Would be kinda nice to visit again.

(I wanted to get a trip with one of the gondola (aerial way) lines for the screenshot, but got no results for that (I think they should be in the timetable data)

#transitous #tbilisi #georgia #sakhartvelo #gnomemaps #PublicTransit

Experimenting with showing platform information for the public transit itineraries in Maps (when available from datasets).
Maybe these labels spelling out "Departing from…" and so on are a bit "wordy"…

#gnomemaps #transitous #PublicTransit #motis

Predicting maglev trains might reach a break-through during 2026, I think it might be time to change the “default generic” icon in the route mode switcher widget for transit in Maps from the current train to a new variant!

#gnomemaps #monorail #trains #April #mapstodon

Started implementing support for public transit delays in Maps

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/917
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/merge_requests/619

#gnomemaps #transitous #mapstodon #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #realtimedata #motis #GtfsRT

Rolled the releases for GNOME 50 today (a bit early, but I'll be busy all day tomorrow):

Maps 50.0
libshumate 1.6.0

and also a (small) bugfix 49.5 on the (old) stable branch.

Didn't yet do a write-up about the new stuff, guess that'll have to be done sometime soonish, too… 😎

#gnome #gnomemaps #mapstodon #gnome50 #libshumate

Today we can celebrate Maps' 13:th birthday

This was the first commit in the Git repo

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6a238dd80d34fa0e4f775ff296106ccbe371988e
Author: Mattias Bengtsson <mattias.jc.bengtsson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Mar 1 23:22:34 2013 +0100

README. First commit.
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So, entering the teens now! 🥳

#gnomemaps #teenage #13yo #year2013