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 like a fun programming project!
One thing I would like to know about Android devices is whether the GPS is aware of altitudes. Google's API appears to support this via the hasAltitude and getAltitude methods of location objects, but I guess it would depend on the device and drivers supplying this information to the API. Has anyone with an Android handset seen any applications which are aware of altitude? Thanks Gaz On 8 March 2010 21:05, Graham Jones <grahamjones...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
