[OSM-dev] Mosmed, mobile OSM editor (for Maemo)

[Till Harbaum / Lists]

Hi,

very nice. It has a different audience as it looks like its not meant to be a full
osm editor but mainly focusses on tagging, correct? On the other hand it can
use tile maps and will therefore probably be able to work on much bigger map
sections at once. A project in a densly mapped city like karlsruhe, germany, 
a mosmed project bigger than ~5 square kilometers can already be quite 
slow with respect to rendering and zooming.

Anyway, i'll take a look at your project, perhaps we can share some code.
I e.g. do all the parsing with libxml2, all the rendering with gnomecanvas
(not much to share with your qt application here) and libcurl for osm
up- and download. Especially the last part might be something to be put
into a seperate library for shared use. Something like a libosm for osm 
up- and download is imho something really needed as the api seems
to be under constant development and there are already a bunch of
applications that aren't updated and thus cannot use the latest api.
A library would relax that situation as an update of that library would
bring all depending apps into action again.

Regards,
  Till

Am Montag 01 September 2008 schrieb Mickey Leroy:
> Yes, the mobile world needs such applications,
> that is why I created a program called Open Citymap (
> http://code.google.com/p/opencitymap/)
> Which firstly was created on the trolltech Greenphone, but now it is being
> re-made (cleaning code + improving) for other devices.
> Those other devices are curently: The OpenMoko freerunner (at the moment
> under Qtopia) and the Nokia N810 (qt/x11).
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Till Harbaum / Lists <lists at harbaum.org>wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > i am thinking there's a lack of OSM editors to be used on the road.
> > Something simple
> > allowing to e.g. set nodes while on the road etc. Just for all those things
> > that aren't
> > easily derived from the gps track.
> >
> > So i started Mosmed (Mobile OSM EDitor, and yes, in the meantime i've
> > learned that
> > there's something named mosme which is the same thing targetted at windows
> > ce).
> > The name is only for development and may change (any idea is welcome).
> >
> > Here's what i am trying to do:
> > - Simple gui, currently the map looks quite exactly as it does in potlatch
> > - Work is handled in projects (basically an area you work on for which the
> > osm data is then
> >  downloaded) to keep the data to be handled small
> > - support for GPS and live overlayed tracks
> > - stylus/touchscreen control
> > - direct OSM interface
> >
> > I am doing this using a bunch of exisiting frameworks on top of
> > maemo/gtk/hildon so
> > this runs on the nokia internet tablets as well as on gtk equipped desktops
> > (linux). The
> > drawing is e.g. done using gnomecanvas which gives nice antialiased vector
> > graphics
> > as seen on this (rather old) snapshot here:
> >
> >  http://www.harbaum.org/till/maemo/mosmed.jpg
> >
> > Mosmed also did its first upload to the database (the tags of node
> > 283749903 have been
> > changed using mosmed).
> >
> > I really think there's a need for something like this. The built-in gps of
> > the nokia n810 in
> > combination with its wlan/bluetooth for osm up- and download and the
> > 800x480 scree
> > imho make this a very nice device to be used for live updates on the road.
> >
> > Regards,
> >  Till
> >
> >
> >
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