(OpenMoko could also be an option?<br>Comes with GTK itself so GPSd along with josm or anything else should run better than "mobile" platforms<br><br>moko also comes with resistance based touch and 3d accel and gps and all regular features and also "my favourite" USB host option.<br>
<br>me contemplating to buy one of those)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/24 Valent Turkovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:valent.turkovic@gmail.com">valent.turkovic@gmail.com</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;">
Hi,<br>
I'm looking for the best mobile phone for OpenStreetMap.<br>
Which mobile phone do you think is better for OpenStreetMap?<br>
<br>
Things for consideration are:<br>
- onboard GPS precision<br>
- applications for GPS logging<br>
- applications for POI collection<br>
- battery life when mapping (how long can you map)<br>
<br>
Please share any experience that you have with any or even better if you<br>
had experience with both of them. I only user iPhone for a short while,<br>
and haven't even seen Android for real but I ran Android emulator via SDK<br>
to get a feel for it.<br>
<br>
<br>
Here are some of my thoughts...<br>
<br>
Android positive points:<br>
- platform on the uptake, more apps coming every day<br>
- nice POI collection app [1]<br>
- runs multiple apps at once<br>
- quite open platform<br>
<br>
Android negative points:<br>
- less apps than iPhone, both for OSM and general<br>
- not so good as multimedia player (video and audio podcasts)<br>
- a bit bigger and heavier than iPhone<br>
<br>
<br>
iPhone positive points:<br>
- lots of apps, both for OSM and general [2]<br>
- CloudMade MapZen POI collector supports for iPhone [3]<br>
- multitouch interface<br>
- great multimedia player (video and audio podcasts)<br>
- nice deal for a 2 year T-Mobile contract<br>
<br>
iPhone negative points:<br>
- runs only one app at once :(<br>
- pretty closed platform :(<br>
- quite expensive, no carrier in Croatia offers it in contract deals :(<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://maps.bigtincan.com/btc-mapper.php" target="_blank">http://maps.bigtincan.com/btc-mapper.php</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/03/19/bring-cloudmade-maps-to-your-%0Aiphone-application/" target="_blank">http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/03/19/bring-cloudmade-maps-to-your-<br>
iphone-application/</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://mapzen.cloudmade.com/mapzen-poi-collector" target="_blank">http://mapzen.cloudmade.com/mapzen-poi-collector</a><br>
<br>
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