On ke, 2007-05-30 at 10:48 -0400, Ian Darwin wrote: > > A simple app to add data for the OpenStreetMap project on OpenMoko > > will probably help a lot. > > Absolutely. And I'm sure several of these will come into being. > > If you want reuse, however, you should think about writing it in Java. > Believe that there will be good Java ME implementations for OpenMoko.
Purely from an OSM perspective a good free Java ME mapping app would indeed be killer, and you're probably right in suspecting that it would be usable on Moko as well before long. You're also probably right that there will be several; it's one of the very "obvious" things to do while GPS toying, and not too hard to get up to basic functionality, while having lots of possible frills to add on top of that. Attractive for a geek project ;) So, for OSM it would be good if a part of the interested mapper developers chose to do a Java ME mapper. One possible way to do so wouldn't require a separate project as such; given a mapper application coded in C and architected to separate the GUI from the core logic, a Java ME port could conceivably be maintained using Cibyl¹, the C-to-J2ME compiler. Apparently RoadMap has been ported to J2ME with it already, doesn't seem too good with OSM integration from quick glances though. -- Mikko J Rauhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Helsinki _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
