On 08/03/2008, bvh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Maybe you should try the python bindings for S60. It's supposed to be a much more pleasant experience than going directly to Symbian's borked version of C++. -- Lauri Hahne _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
