Re: [OSM-dev] Field Paper on a Tablet in the near future?

2014-02-05 Thread Simon Poole
IMHO is is difficult to see a reason to just move the field paper model to a tablet if you actually have tablet plus infrastrusture at least at your base camp available. Why not use Vespucci and forget about trying to transform something that works great on paper to some where it is rather

Re: [OSM-dev] Field Paper on a Tablet in the near future?

2014-02-05 Thread Pierre Béland
Simon, the objective is to offer to people in the field more flexibility, with offline maps, facility to both take notes, take measures and edit OSM.  I dont think that Vespucci isadapted to non techie people.   Pierre De : Simon Poole si...@poole.ch À :

[OSM-dev] Field Paper on a Tablet in the near future?

2014-02-04 Thread Pierre Béland
Some propositions were made last summer to develop a Field Paper Application on a tablet. HOT is looking at various ways for humanitarian operating in various countries to collect data about various infratructures. Discussions recently with various humanitarian organizations show great