Hi,

I'm leading a project to port the Bluemapia mobile client to Symbian OS.  
Bluemapia uses GDAL, so as part of the project we will also be porting GDAL.

In case you didn't already know, you can (mostly) use standard C/C++ on Symbian 
OS these days and Qt is also being ported (which we will use for the Bluemapia 
UI).  With an increasingly Linux/Unix like user-space environment and new 
devices like the recently announced Nokia N97 on the way, I think that Symbian 
is an ideal platform for open source mobile GIS applications.

Any advice on porting GDAL would be very much appreciated.

Initially we'll only port a small subset of the GDAL drivers, but if anyone is 
interested in using this port and needs support for specific drivers then 
please get in touch.

If anyone would like to get involved then you'd be very, very welcome!  I'm 
also planning a "code camp" or mini-sprint to get the project started in London 
on Saturday 17th January.  If you would like to attend then please email me 
before 6th January.

Links for the interested:
Project announcement blog post (with many further links):
http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/mark-wilcoxs-forum-nokia-blog/2008/12/17/qt-on-s60-open-source-project-bluemapia
Bluemapia:
http://www.bluemapia.com
Nokia N97:
http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1274500
Symbian OS being moved to open source:
http://www.symbianfoundation.org/

Best regards,
Mark Wilcox


      
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