[OSM-dev] "Opentrail" - What development environments would be best for mobile compatibility?

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
| On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:58:05AM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
|
|> Regarding the "OpenTrail" OSM walking/hiking software idea that I'd like
|> to develop given enough time (see earlier in the week), I'd like to
ensure
|> it's compatible with phones and other mobile devices. This will probably
|> influence what language it's written in - my initial ideas are either
|> C++(Qt), Java or C# (could share code with Igor in the last case).
|
| I'm certainly not a developer on the platform, but having acquired a
| Nokia N95 running series 60 recently, it seems worth pointing out the
| native development environment for that is C++
|
| http://www.s60.com/business/developers/developingwithS60
|
| but it supports J2ME too.

Nokia Open C is basically a port of Gnome to S60 3rd edtition phones,
including the N95. The libraries will be included in future phones.

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/open_c/

The other thing is that depending on what OpenTrail is going to do, you
might be better off adding features to an existing product, such as
WhereAmI which works on most Symbian based phones (not just Nokia S60).

http://www.symbianos.org/projects/47

It already downloads and displays OSM data, connects to GPSs and tracks
your position, records GPX files etc.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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