Hi Peter, I just myself got the new Nokia 5800, which is S60v5. Nokia having bought Trolltech (and thus Qt), there is now a preview verion of Qt for S60.
Merkaartor being built on top of Qt, a version for S60 (or at least a mapper for S60 built upon the building blocks of Merkaartor) is more than feasible and I'm working on it, time permittig. Unfortunately, the desktop version of Merkaartor already takes 95% of my available time, so the allocatble time is little. If you have C++/Qt knowledge or want to learn, I'd be more than happy to get a helping hand! Besides that, I've learned that developing on S60/C++ is a nightmare without using a toolkit like Qt. For a casual developer, the only other alternative is J2ME and I think there is already a ton of apps which could fit your needs or enjoy your patches ;-) Regards - Chris - 2009/5/10 Peter Childs <[email protected]> > I've just got a new Nokia 6220 Classic Mobile Phone. Its got a built > in GPS which means I've been able to get out and get a bit more > mapping done.... (Since I did not have a GPS this has been difficult) > > I've got the Sport Tracker software installed, which seams to be > relatively good at getting tracks, But the Maps on the Nokia by > default are hmm expensive and obviously Not OSM. > > Since I'm a software developer.... I'm speculating how easy it would > be to write something in Java ME, C++ or Python for the phone, and > > a> Display OSM Maps, either a> From Raw OSM data (probably not the > whole thing due to space), or from Tiles pre-downloaded, or possibly > fetched as needed in the field using 3G.. > > b> Field Tag, so you can stand next to the feature and tag it, or > stand at one end of the road start way, walk to other end way and tag, > then either direct upload as you go or clean up (removing excessive > point in ways for example) and upload once you get home. > > c> Route and anything else one can dream of doing with Maps. > > I'm thinking such a piece of software would be relatively platform > independent, and therefore usefully to anyone with a mobile or PDA > that can run Java ME, (Which I think but I'm not sure should be most > 3rd Generation Mobiles not just S60s) > > Never having developed Mobile Apps before, it just looks like an > interesting idea, and this is more of a proof of concept than anything > else at this stage. > > Peter. > PS Does anything more exist that will run on the phone, The Wiki does > not seam to say so currently. I might add to the wiki.... > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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