Hi Miguel, Thank you for informing about the android mapviewer. I hope that in the near future it would be capable to be mobile gis as Phillip described - Android Mobile GIS.
Ubuntu tablets are coming as well. http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/19/sharps-netwalker-pc-t1-is-the-very-definition-of-an-mid-coming/ I think QGIS can easily run on these devices as well. But I refer to have an Android Mobile GIS app in android since most of the these devices has built-in GPS. Regards, Noli On 4/21/10, Miguel Montesinos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phillip and Noli, > > We have developed the application Phillip points out. It doen't support > those features so far, but if you like to use it as a base, we are ready > to collaborate in order to support the creation of geometries (point, > polyline, polygon) from the GPS (or hand-based), or some other vector > capabilitites. > > I've recently acquired my third Android phone, and I'm sure that Android > projection is going to be really impressive (it's right now, as a matter > of fact). > > It will be great to extend the community of users and developers of this > application. > > Regards, > > Miguel Montesinos > >> -----Mensaje original----- >> De: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] >> En nombre de Noli Sicad >> Enviado el: martes, 20 de abril de 2010 23:33 >> Para: Philipp Auersperg-Castell >> CC: qgis-user >> Asunto: Re: [Qgis-user] Mobile GIS >> >> Hi Phillip, >> >> Thanks for sharing your project and ideas. >> >> Have you tried this app. >> >> https://confluence.prodevelop.es/display/GVMN/Home >> >> Probably you can borrow some of their codes to incorporate to what you >> have started. It is GPL project as as well. I think there is no edit >> function in the map viewer. >> >> Regards, >> >> Noli >> >> On 4/21/10, Philipp Auersperg-Castell <[email protected]> wrote: >> > IT depends what you need from the mobile GIS application,I am >> > currently poking around with android, Qgis and MapServer for > forrestry >> > mapping. >> > I used Qgis to develop a forest map for my forest enterprise, with >> > PostGis as backend. >> > >> > Recently Ive bought my first Android smartphone with GPS integrated >> > and in consequence there came up the wish to display my forest map > in >> > GoogleMaps (with the satellite image as background) and the ability > to >> > mark points or areas by GPS and upload them into the GIS. >> > >> > So I typed 'gis' and 'map' and similar terms into Android Market >> > (=AppStore in the Android world) and found nothing useful except > apps >> > for geocaching, hiking, mountainbiking and the like, but >> > nothing that would fit my needs. >> > >> > As a consequence I started experimenting with the Android SDK and >> > found out that it is not too much work to use the MapView shipping >> > with the SDK to display stuff on top of the google satellite image. >> > With the help of JTS (a java library for geo stuff, >> > http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm) >> > it was less than 100 lines of code to display polygon layers as >> > overlay into the MapView. Most of the work was to get initially >> > familiar with Android SDK and its philosophy, and with its > integration >> > to eclipse it seems quite handy to me. >> > >> > The next Problem is how to get my maps from Qgis/Postgis to my > phone, >> > there I decided for an online solution with MapServer as backend. > QGis >> > has MapServerExport as plugin, so its no big deal to export a QGIS >> > project to MapServer. Then I wrote an xmlrpc server (around 150 > lines >> > of python code including coordinate transformation) which deploys > the >> > layer features in the WKT format, that I parse on my handheld with > the >> > help of JTS library and the module mentioned above displays it on my >> > MapView. >> > >> > I also wrote some code to capture coordinates (points and areas) > with >> > GPS and are currently working on uploading them into the GIS server. >> > My software can even mark remote points using the handheld's camera >> > and the device's internal compass for the direction. I then just > have >> > to manually enter the distance read from a laser distance meter and >> > have my point location. >> > >> > All that is by far not production ready but serves for me as a proof >> > of concept that I can display my map online from my server on my >> > android phone and be able to digitize features with GPS. >> > >> > If anybody is working on such a beast please let me know if you are >> > interested in doing some work together.... >> > >> > regards >> > Philipp >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
