Hi Peter,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Unfortunately, the desktop version of Merkaartor already takes 95% of my available time, so the allocatble time is little.<br>If you have C++/Qt knowledge or want to learn, I'd be more than happy to get a helping hand!<br>
<br>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 ;-)<br>
<br>Regards<br>- Chris -<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/10 Peter Childs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchilds@bcs.org">pchilds@bcs.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've just got a new Nokia 6220 Classic Mobile Phone. Its got a built<br>
in GPS which means I've been able to get out and get a bit more<br>
mapping done.... (Since I did not have a GPS this has been difficult)<br>
<br>
I've got the Sport Tracker software installed, which seams to be<br>
relatively good at getting tracks, But the Maps on the Nokia by<br>
default are hmm expensive and obviously Not OSM.<br>
<br>
Since I'm a software developer.... I'm speculating how easy it would<br>
be to write something in Java ME, C++ or Python for the phone, and<br>
<br>
a> Display OSM Maps, either a> From Raw OSM data (probably not the<br>
whole thing due to space), or from Tiles pre-downloaded, or possibly<br>
fetched as needed in the field using 3G..<br>
<br>
b> Field Tag, so you can stand next to the feature and tag it, or<br>
stand at one end of the road start way, walk to other end way and tag,<br>
then either direct upload as you go or clean up (removing excessive<br>
point in ways for example) and upload once you get home.<br>
<br>
c> Route and anything else one can dream of doing with Maps.<br>
<br>
I'm thinking such a piece of software would be relatively platform<br>
independent, and therefore usefully to anyone with a mobile or PDA<br>
that can run Java ME, (Which I think but I'm not sure should be most<br>
3rd Generation Mobiles not just S60s)<br>
<br>
Never having developed Mobile Apps before, it just looks like an<br>
interesting idea, and this is more of a proof of concept than anything<br>
else at this stage.<br>
<br>
Peter.<br>
PS Does anything more exist that will run on the phone, The Wiki does<br>
not seam to say so currently. I might add to the wiki....<br>
<br>
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