(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 I've > just got hold of an Android phone (HTC Hero) and fancy having a play. > Would there still be interest in this? What I'll probably do is work on > both apps - time permitting - but prioritise the one which has the most > current interest. Other people have mentioned Vespucci and BTC Mapper, which are closer to what you're probably thinking of. I think they're both incomplete and buggy though, and release very infrequently for Android 1.5. I tend to work with GPS export traces and photos, and I've dug around a bit in the marketplace for stuff that seems to work (for me): mini-reviews: For offline data gathering, I'm using GPS Logger for Android < http://gpslogger.codeplex.com/ > most right now, which allows text annotation and produces GPX that plays quite nicely in JOSM. That plus my Hero's camera app. It's said to be comparatively frugal with battery use if dialed down to infrequent polling. Under fairly enthusiastic development and release, good stuff. OSM Tracker for Android[tm] < http://code.google.com/p/osmtracker-android/ > is looking good too, and gets updates about as often: it's recently grown the ability to make photo records as well as voice notes, and seems to have some hardcoded presets. Faintly funky WinMo-esque UI that seems to be improving :) I'm hoping that Open GPS Tracker < http://code.google.com/p/open-gpstracker/ > will show OSM background layers in a future release: currently it only displays Google Maps maps, so it's of no use to OSMers. But it behaves very nicely, it's open source, seems to be updated fairly frequently, and I'd really quite like to use it for the task of -seeing where I've been- when out mapping. Looks like a good project to hack on, or at least to vote up wishlist items you want on :) RMaps < http://code.google.com/p/rmaps/ > can show various OSM layers including the public transport one, but doesn't seem able to cache downloaded tiles. Open-source. Annoying bug that sometimes crashes the app when tapping around in the map display. Maps(-) (no source URL; think it's just freeware) can cache downloaded tiles on the SD card for offline use, but can't be worked on publicly (AFAICT), and has had "ad releases" in the past without any warning, behaviour which I dislike intensely. And, erm, that's what I actually use. -- Andrew Chadwick _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk