Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
can confirm for the Nexus one, and as always gps altitude is less accurate without barometric correction On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 9 March 2010 08:17, Gaz Davidson wrote: > > information to the API. Has anyone with an Android handset seen any > > applications which

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread John Smith
On 9 March 2010 08:17, Gaz Davidson wrote: > information to the API. Has anyone with an Android handset seen any > applications which are aware of altitude? GPS Status displays this information, but GPS altitude isn't accurate. ___ talk mailing list ta

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Graham Jones
There is quite a detailed wiki page on Android devices using OSM: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android. I think that all of the applications identified by Andrew are listed, but without his user comments! Graham. On 8 March 2010 21:05, Graham Jones wrote: > Andrew, > That is a really goo

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Gaz Davidson
I agree, great summary :-) I'm getting a Google Nexus One soon and will be looking to do some POI mapping and uploading of geo-tagged photos. I'd also like to see if it's feasible to use the GPS, accelerometer, camera and touch-screen to calculate and store the heights of buildings, which sounds l

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Graham Jones
Andrew, That is a really good summary - you have found some applications that I hadn't heard of - I'll go and try them. I don't know if there is a decent Android page on the wiki, but the info you have collected would be good to go on that. Graham. On 8 March 2010 17:05, Andrew Chadwick (email l

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread John Smith
On 9 March 2010 02:54, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: > Note that the lat and lon are the wrong way round, and there is a > comma after the elevation (there shouldn't be). I managed to mangle my It would have been nice to get a bug report about this, if I wasn't on this mailing list I wouldn't have

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
(Argh, let's try that again from a subscribed email address) Nick Whitelegg wrote: > The other thing I have in mind to do is a POI collector for Android > devices. I seem to remember there being an interest in this before > Christmas when the Mapzen collector for the iPhone was launched - and I

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-08 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
2010/2/23 Tomáš Tichý : > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 15:57, John Smith wrote: >> >> BTC Mapper is a basic POI collector for both Android and BB, although >> the BB app is getting more love at present due to commercial >> pressures. >> > > I have tried BTC mapper and it is almost unusable (doesn´t wor

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-06 Thread grahamjones139
. POI, track, and photo collection would be useful additional features, along with something to highlight in the directions where there is a FIXME or OSMbug entry nearby on the map. I think that integrating these features into Navit (perhaps as plugins), rather than having a s

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-03-05 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liz wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Patrick Weber wrote: >> I tried Navit on Android yesterday, at least on my phone (HTC Magic) it >> was unusable, the map didnt update properly or follow my movements, and >> crashed a few times. I also could not find

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-27 Thread Graham Jones
I have decided to have a go at improving the Vespucci User Interface to make mapping using an Android phone easier. I have started a branch of the project (0.7_dev) to hold the new version at http://code.google.com/p/osmeditor4android. There is also an issue ( http://code.google.com/p/osmeditor4an

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Liz
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Patrick Weber wrote: > I tried Navit on Android yesterday, at least on my phone (HTC Magic) it > was unusable, the map didnt update properly or follow my movements, and > crashed a few times. I also could not find out how to actually set a > route > On the Freerunner I

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Patrick Weber
I tried Navit on Android yesterday, at least on my phone (HTC Magic) it was unusable, the map didnt update properly or follow my movements, and crashed a few times. I also could not find out how to actually set a route On 23/02/2010 22:42, John Smith wrote: For routing/using, there is na

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 February 2010 19:13, Simone Cortesi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:58, John Smith wrote: > >>> Any plan to make it compatible with the HTC TATTOO? I've tried to >>> download it from the android market, but with no success. >> Is this due a problem with smaller screen sizes? > > I bet s

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:58, John Smith wrote: >> Any plan to make it compatible with the HTC TATTOO? I've tried to >> download it from the android market, but with no success. > Is this due a problem with smaller screen sizes? I bet so. But actually there is no way to tell (no errors, just a

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 February 2010 18:48, Simone Cortesi wrote: > Any plan to make it compatible with the HTC TATTOO? I've tried to > download it from the android market, but with no success. Is this due a problem with smaller screen sizes? ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-24 Thread Simone Cortesi
2010/2/23 John Smith : > 2010/2/24 Tomáš Tichý : >> I have tried BTC mapper and it is almost unusable (doesn´t work >> without GPS signal, can´t place POI to another place than my location, >> weird and uneditable presets). > > It's being worked on at present, the current preset system didn't work

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 23 Feb 2010, at 13:00 , Graham Jones wrote: > I have just got an Android phone too and was thinking of doing some work on > simplifying the Vespucci user interface (I'm just learning how the UI system > works on Android firststill can't get the camera to work properly...). I > see the

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 February 2010 08:22, Kevin Peat wrote: > Just tried mapdroyd today which is closed source but has the useful feature > of offering OSM maps in precompiled packages which I would certainly like > (or at least to have a decent tile cache facility) as the 3G coverage is > pretty spotty where I

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Kevin Peat
I've also just got an android phone and have been trying the various map related apps. Just tried mapdroyd today which is closed source but has the useful feature of offering OSM maps in precompiled packages which I would certainly like (or at least to have a decent tile cache facility) as the 3G

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Graham Jones
I have just got an Android phone too and was thinking of doing some work on simplifying the Vespucci user interface (I'm just learning how the UI system works on Android firststill can't get the camera to work properly...). I see the main improvements that would be useful are: - A 'one clic

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
Just for POI collection there are already 2 or 3 applications BTC mapper Vespucci Vespucci has nice features but user interface is really complicated to use. can edit all tags, POI, ways. might be a good idea to improve this project instead just another POI collector On 23 Feb 2010, at 6:36 ,

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread John Smith
2010/2/24 Tomáš Tichý : > I have tried BTC mapper and it is almost unusable (doesn´t work > without GPS signal, can´t place POI to another place than my location, > weird and uneditable presets). It's being worked on at present, the current preset system didn't work out as well as we first thought

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Tomáš Tichý
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 15:57, John Smith wrote: > On 24 February 2010 00:36, Nick Whitelegg wrote: >> The other thing I have in mind to do is a POI collector for Android >> devices. I seem to remember there being an interest in this before >> Christmas when the Mapzen collector for the iPhone wa

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 February 2010 00:36, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > The other thing I have in mind to do is a POI collector for Android > devices. I seem to remember there being an interest in this before > Christmas when the Mapzen collector for the iPhone was launched - and I've > just got hold of an Android pho

Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Ciprian Talaba
I will definitely be interested in something like this. --Ciprian On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Firstly thanks for the replies regarding a tile generator using the Mapnik > OSM plugin - looks like there's a little bit of interest so I might start > work on it. > > The

[OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

2010-02-23 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Firstly thanks for the replies regarding a tile generator using the Mapnik OSM plugin - looks like there's a little bit of interest so I might start work on it. The other thing I have in mind to do is a POI collector for Android devices. I seem to remember there being an interest in this before