Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-09 Thread Igor Brejc
Andy Deakin wrote: > Hi Guys, > > The precision on the N95 internal gps is not good, but with an external > bluetooth gps device it is somewhat better. > I am one of the developers of motortrace.com, which is a vehicle > tracking solution, and one of the things we currently offer is phone > trac

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-09 Thread Igor Brejc
Nick Whitelegg wrote: >> Sounds nice, but there's one problem: creating OSM ways automatically >> > >from GPS data (without user editing) is not a good idea, for several > >> reasons: >> - GPS (in)precission: it is a good practice to cover certain path >> several times before actually cr

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-09 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>Sounds nice, but there's one problem: creating OSM ways automatically >from GPS data (without user editing) is not a good idea, for several >reasons: >- GPS (in)precission: it is a good practice to cover certain path >several times before actually creating a way Do many of us actually do that

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-09 Thread Andy Deakin
Hi Guys, The precision on the N95 internal gps is not good, but with an external bluetooth gps device it is somewhat better. I am one of the developers of motortrace.com, which is a vehicle tracking solution, and one of the things we currently offer is phone tracking software. This is a free j2

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-09 Thread Igor Brejc
Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > 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

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
> > > > 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 nee

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-08 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 08:23:51PM +, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christopher Schmidt wrote: > | And there's already the start of code for creating a Python-based editor > | for the N95: > | > | http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PyS60

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-08 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Schmidt wrote: | And there's already the start of code for creating a Python-based editor | for the N95: | | http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PyS60Editor Why hasn't this been mentioned before? The best OSM viewing app I have found

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-08 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 08:54:31PM +0200, Lauri Hahne wrote: > On 08/03/2008, bvh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:38:50PM +, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > > Have managed to got hold of a N95 for research purposes through work. One > > > thing that maybe would be useful i

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-08 Thread Lauri Hahne
On 08/03/2008, bvh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:38:50PM +, 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

Re: [OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-08 Thread bvh
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:38:50PM +, 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

[OSM-dev] Feasibility of an 'in the field' mobile editing app?

2008-03-08 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, 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