Maps: Events on the map

[jancborchardt]

It would be cool to have events show up on the map when they have a location set and are in the near future (the next 4 weeks).

@MorrisJobke mentioned that GMaps does this. Would be a great way to inter-connect Nextcloud apps like this! cc @v1r0x @brantje and @georgehrke for Calendar

[andreasjacobsen93]

This would be a really cool feature, but I don't know how much it would be used.

[georgehrke]

I think we should implement a Calendar API in the server, just like the contacts API.
Implementing a CalDAV client with all the parsing XML logic would be an overkill for a maps app.

[jancborchardt]

@georgehrke sounds good!

@andreasjacobsen93 it's not a matter of being used intentionally, it's about connecting the apps and achieving convergence. This is one of the big points why people use Google and Apple apps.

[Spartachetto]

As I wrote in #18, I would love to have even more integration: displaying info from more than one app (e.g.: events + contacts) would let the user interact with them with no effort!

[e-alfred]

This is the issue from the calendar app: https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar/issues/584

Now that Caldav is integrated into the server directly one major problem regarding this feature is already solved?

[georgehrke]

@e-alfred These two issues are not related at all.
nextcloud/calendar#584 is about showing a map in the event editor.

This ticket is about showing pins for upcoming events in the maps app.

[georgehrke]

Now that Caldav is integrated into the server directly one major problem regarding this feature is already solved?

We also implemented the calendar API as i suggested above.
Can be found at https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/master/lib/public/Calendar/ICalendar.php

[WNYmathGuy]

The Friendica federated systems have events calendars. I can see how sharing an event from there to a Nextcloud circle or contacts list/group could be useful in marketing a concert, live event, company picnic, flashmob, etc.

[jancborchardt]

This is mostly about seeing your own events on a map. See https://www.blog.google/products/maps/now-you-can-see-your-google-calendar-events-google-maps/

[WNYmathGuy]

Right, @jancborchardt but if my Nextcloud was pulling in a calendar from somewhere else by the "Subscription" feature, they would be my event's right?

[georgehrke]

The calendar API does not expose subscriptions at the moment, so no.
Feel free to open a feature request for that in the server repo.