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 lists) < andrewc-email-li...@piffle.org> wrote: > (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've > > just got hold of an Android phone (HTC Hero) and fancy having a play. > > Would there still be interest in this? What I'll probably do is work on > > both apps - time permitting - but prioritise the one which has the most > > current interest. > > Other people have mentioned Vespucci and BTC Mapper, which are closer to > what you're probably thinking of. I think they're both incomplete and > buggy though, and release very infrequently for Android 1.5. I tend to > work with GPS export traces and photos, and I've dug around a bit in the > marketplace for stuff that seems to work (for me): mini-reviews: > > > For offline data gathering, I'm using GPS Logger for Android < > http://gpslogger.codeplex.com/ > most right now, which allows text > annotation and produces GPX that plays quite nicely in JOSM. That plus > my Hero's camera app. It's said to be comparatively frugal with battery > use if dialed down to infrequent polling. Under fairly enthusiastic > development and release, good stuff. > > OSM Tracker for Android[tm] < > http://code.google.com/p/osmtracker-android/ > is looking good too, and > gets updates about as often: it's recently grown the ability to make > photo records as well as voice notes, and seems to have some hardcoded > presets. Faintly funky WinMo-esque UI that seems to be improving :) > > I'm hoping that Open GPS Tracker < > http://code.google.com/p/open-gpstracker/ > will show OSM background > layers in a future release: currently it only displays Google Maps maps, > so it's of no use to OSMers. But it behaves very nicely, it's open > source, seems to be updated fairly frequently, and I'd really quite like > to use it for the task of -seeing where I've been- when out mapping. > Looks like a good project to hack on, or at least to vote up wishlist > items you want on :) > > RMaps < http://code.google.com/p/rmaps/ > can show various OSM layers > including the public transport one, but doesn't seem able to cache > downloaded tiles. Open-source. Annoying bug that sometimes crashes the > app when tapping around in the map display. > > Maps(-) (no source URL; think it's just freeware) can cache downloaded > tiles on the SD card for offline use, but can't be worked on publicly > (AFAICT), and has had "ad releases" in the past without any warning, > behaviour which I dislike intensely. > > > > And, erm, that's what I actually use. > > -- > Andrew Chadwick > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Dr. Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK email: grahamjones...@gmail.com
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