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ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt requires developers to adopt Qt 6, which allows the SDK to take advantage of new graphics APIs, platform architectures, language features, and more.

Perhaps using this SDK is a goal for when Windninja is pulled forward to a newer QT. OTOH, integrating this ESRI dependency may force future upgrades before you're ready. Unless you say otherwise, I'll start picking at option 2.

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Chatter around vector plugins suggests they're experimental and unsupported...

https://openmaptiles.org/docs/website/leaflet/

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This link suggests that Esri vector tiles should work with leaflet.

https://developers.arcgis.com/esri-leaflet/layers/add-a-vector-tile-layer/

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Maybe this is the plugin we should be looking at:

https://github.com/Esri/esri-leaflet-vector

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... which has these dependencies...

Dependencies

• Leaflet version 1.5.0 (or higher) is required.
• Esri Leaflet 2.3.0 (or higher) is required.
• maplibre-gl-js

Do you know what version of leaflet is bundled with windninja?

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Looks like leaflet 1.3.4. We could probably update though?

https://github.com/firelab/windninja/tree/master/data/leaflet

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Prolly should anyway. So just spitballing, it sounds like the path of least resistance is option 2. We update the bundled leaflet, bundle esri-leaflet-vector and its dependencies, and tweak the downloader code.

I'm not going to get to this prior to AL in early April, as I need to focus on getting the Openstack hardware physically cabled. As long as the stopgap solution in #483 works for you for now, I can come back to this when I get back...

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Sounds good to me. I released 3.8.1 with the solution in #483 yesterday, so we are good for a little bit. We can work on this when you're back. I'll probably try to release 3.9.0 with some other fixes/upgrades around the end of May/early June. Would be good to include this in that release.

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Slightly more advance option but might make it more seamless with the overall code base is to use the ArcGIS Qt SDK: https://developers.arcgis.com/qt/

This would give you a native form element rather than an embedded html/js page. If the functionality is simply 'display public maps from arcgis services and draw boundary polygons', you should be fine with the low level 'lite' (ie free) licensing level.

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@fspataro Thanks Fred! We'll check this out.

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Successfully converted html to esri-leaflet in my branch https://github.com/bnordgren/windninja/tree/arc_tile_servers

Works great in Firefox on ubuntu host. Doesn't want to work in the QT4 widget inside the app. What's the status of QT5 on master? I got an unresolved symbol when trying to run.

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The Qt5 option in master is work that was done several years ago to attempt write a new GUI in Qt5. We didn't get very far and then decided for an even bigger overhaul to modernize the GUI with an in-app viewer in Qt5. Technosylva is helping us on this, but we haven't gotten very far. I haven't built with the Qt5 option in our master branch in a long time, some functions may have changed. I can't remember if it was using the C API or not. The easiest solution is to try and get something working in Qt4. I think our Qt5 GUI is still a ways out.

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