Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
2010/2/23 Tomáš Tichý t.ti...@post.cz: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 15:57, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: BTC Mapper is a basic POI collector for both Android and BB, although the BB app is getting more love at present due to commercial pressures. I have tried BTC mapper and it is

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
(Argh, let's try that again from a subscribed email address) Nick Whitelegg wrote: The other thing I have in mind to do is a POI collector for Android devices. I seem to remember there being an interest in this before Christmas when the Mapzen collector for the iPhone was launched - and

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread John Smith
On 9 March 2010 02:54, Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net wrote: Note that the lat and lon are the wrong way round, and there is a comma after the elevation (there shouldn't be). I managed to mangle my It would have been nice to get a bug report about this, if I wasn't on this mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: . POI, track, and photo collection would be useful additional features, along with something to highlight in the directions where there is a FIXME or OSMbug entry nearby on the map. I think that

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Graham Jones
Robert, I know what you mean - the idea of including lots of things in a single application sounds good. My problem with it is that it also makes it complicated. Thing of GPSMid for J2ME - it is a nice navigation program with some map info collecting features. Unfortunately you have to go

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-06 Thread grahamjones139
. POI, track, and photo collection would be useful additional features, along with something to highlight in the directions where there is a FIXME or OSMbug entry nearby on the map. I think that integrating these features into Navit (perhaps as plugins), rather than having a

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-05 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liz wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Patrick Weber wrote: I tried Navit on Android yesterday, at least on my phone (HTC Magic) it was unusable, the map didnt update properly or follow my movements, and crashed a few times. I also could not find out

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-27 Thread Graham Jones
I have decided to have a go at improving the Vespucci User Interface to make mapping using an Android phone easier. I have started a branch of the project (0.7_dev) to hold the new version at http://code.google.com/p/osmeditor4android. There is also an issue (

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Simone Cortesi
2010/2/23 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2010/2/24 Tomáš Tichý t.ti...@post.cz: I have tried BTC mapper and it is almost unusable (doesn´t work without GPS signal, can´t place POI to another place than my location, weird and uneditable presets). It's being worked on at present, the

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 February 2010 18:48, Simone Cortesi sim...@cortesi.com wrote: Any plan to make it compatible with the HTC TATTOO? I've tried to download it from the android market, but with no success. Is this due a problem with smaller screen sizes? ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:58, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Any plan to make it compatible with the HTC TATTOO? I've tried to download it from the android market, but with no success. Is this due a problem with smaller screen sizes? I bet so. But actually there is no way to

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 February 2010 19:13, Simone Cortesi sim...@cortesi.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:58, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Any plan to make it compatible with the HTC TATTOO? I've tried to download it from the android market, but with no success. Is this due a problem with

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Patrick Weber
I tried Navit on Android yesterday, at least on my phone (HTC Magic) it was unusable, the map didnt update properly or follow my movements, and crashed a few times. I also could not find out how to actually set a route On 23/02/2010 22:42, John Smith wrote: For routing/using, there is

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Liz
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Patrick Weber wrote: I tried Navit on Android yesterday, at least on my phone (HTC Magic) it was unusable, the map didnt update properly or follow my movements, and crashed a few times. I also could not find out how to actually set a route On the Freerunner I run

[OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Firstly thanks for the replies regarding a tile generator using the Mapnik OSM plugin - looks like there's a little bit of interest so I might start work on it. The other thing I have in mind to do is a POI collector for Android devices. I seem to remember there being an interest in this

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Ciprian Talaba
I will definitely be interested in something like this. --Ciprian On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Firstly thanks for the replies regarding a tile generator using the Mapnik OSM plugin - looks like there's a little bit of interest so I might

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 February 2010 00:36, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: The other thing I have in mind to do is a POI collector for Android devices. I seem to remember there being an interest in this before Christmas when the Mapzen collector for the iPhone was launched - and I've just

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread John Smith
2010/2/24 Tomáš Tichý t.ti...@post.cz: I have tried BTC mapper and it is almost unusable (doesn´t work without GPS signal, can´t place POI to another place than my location, weird and uneditable presets). It's being worked on at present, the current preset system didn't work out as well as we

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
Just for POI collection there are already 2 or 3 applications BTC mapper Vespucci Vespucci has nice features but user interface is really complicated to use. can edit all tags, POI, ways. might be a good idea to improve this project instead just another POI collector On 23 Feb 2010, at 6:36 ,

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Graham Jones
I have just got an Android phone too and was thinking of doing some work on simplifying the Vespucci user interface (I'm just learning how the UI system works on Android firststill can't get the camera to work properly...). I see the main improvements that would be useful are: - A 'one

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin Peat
I've also just got an android phone and have been trying the various map related apps. Just tried mapdroyd today which is closed source but has the useful feature of offering OSM maps in precompiled packages which I would certainly like (or at least to have a decent tile cache facility) as the 3G

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 February 2010 08:22, Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com wrote: Just tried mapdroyd today which is closed source but has the useful feature of offering OSM maps in precompiled packages which I would certainly like (or at least to have a decent tile cache facility) as the 3G coverage is pretty

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 23 Feb 2010, at 13:00 , Graham Jones wrote: I have just got an Android phone too and was thinking of doing some work on simplifying the Vespucci user interface (I'm just learning how the UI system works on Android firststill can't get the camera to work properly...). I see the