Nevermind, I just realised that openstreetbugs meets the requirements for a place to review notes made while out visiting. The mobile device can just record everything ("this is the A421", "there is a pub here", "a footpath goes off to the left") as points, and upload them all to openstreetbugs when you walk past a network connection...
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:01 PM, OJ W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like there are two applications here: > > The mobile editor itself, for which there are various applications > which could be used/extended. Given that it's mobile (no/costly > network available) it would presumably want to store an OSM diff file > of changes made, ready for upload when back at home. > > A tool for applying these diff files to the OSM database. I think > this would be a GUI application rather than a simple merge tool, > because the underlying data could have changed since the mobile device > was last loaded with maps, the item might already exist, it might have > been recently added, it might be in the OSM data but not displayed on > the mobile device, the way you're trying to name might have been split > and renumbered since you recorded information about it (especially if > there are several people mapping an area simultaneously) > > And of course, some mobile devices might not know about OSM data or > way-IDs at all. The program might want to store "road at this > lat/long should be oneway" but if it's only displaying map images then > the resulting diff file won't even know the way ID until you look it > up later. > > So it might be useful to have a desktop application that can take an > OSM diff file and let you confirm each change, showing a map of the > area, highlighting/selecting which road you mean, adjust the position > of a POI from away from the road-centre where were standing when you > entered it, that sort of thing.. > > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Nick Whitelegg > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Was thinking of a few ideas for an OSM mobile editor which could work as >> follows: >> >> * Ability to allow user in the field to add new attributes to a way (e.g. >> road name if it's missing, or one way) or correct existing attributes. >> * Allow a user to add new POIs. >> * Could work by either downloading OSM data live from the server (though >> this would have problem of being relatively expensive for the user) or by >> the user preloading OSM data to the phone before they go out. >> * Allows user to add annotations to Openstreetbugs (e.g. "missing footpath >> here") >> * Because the inbuilt GPS in phones is not as good as dedicated devices, >> it would not be a priority to develop features to allow surveying of new >> ways. However this could be built in, in preparation for inbuilt mobile >> GPS improving in the future. >> * Java ME based for maximum cross platform support. >> >> Does this seem like a good approach? As can be seen the idea is not so >> much to allow addition of new ways (due to the inbuilt GPS on phones not >> being great) but more to add POIs and tags to existing ways. If there's >> interest and - more crucially - if I have the time (always difficult!) I >> could start work on it. >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk