On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:38:50PM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Have managed to got hold of a N95 for research purposes through work. One > thing that maybe would be useful is an "in the field" editing application > for the outdoors, where you walk, the inbuilt GPS on the phone records > your track, then you choose a route type (footway, bridleway, road etc) > and an appropriate way is created from your track. You repeat this for > your whole walk then when you're finished (or even maybe in the field?) > you upload the new way to OSM. To avoid the need for (expensive, I should > imagine) downloads to the phone, functionality such as checking for > duplicate nodes and ways is done server side: if not on the main OSM > server, on a proxy server. > > I haven't had a great deal of experience in mobile development though, so > do people think this is a feasible project?
I have a N95 and one of the first things I did was downloading the SDK to develop such an application. Unfortunatly, I got more than I bargained for because the S60 platform is not a pleasant one to develop for... Now that Nokia has bought Trolltech and has announced that they are going to port Qt to the S60 range, I personally would rather wait for that. But on a technical level, there is no reason why such a project would be unfeasible. Actually I had sent a mail to the guys that developed Sportstracker if they wanted to open source their code, but got no answer. If someone is more lucky than me, that might provide a good basis. It already has all the functionality to record the track correctly. All it needs is a small tag editor and an export/upload to OSM functionality. cu bart _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
