[Talk-in] GPSMid -- J2ME Application

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

Well you cannot still add ways. It can just add POIs, edit the properties of
existing ways. GPS compliments this app well too.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Arunmozhi <aruntheguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you so much . . .  This is like a holy grail for people like me
> who cannot get their hands on gps devices
>
> On 5/20/10, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Came across this awesome java mobile app GPSMid [1] after planemad
> tweeted
> > about it. This app can take OSM data and hold it in the form of midlet
> and
> > provide routing. It can position using Cell ID. So positioning /
> navigation
> > on any phone which has j2me support / some memory without GPS / GPRS.
> >
> > For folks with GPRS, it can also live edit OSM which i think will be of
> > immense use to us to quickly add a POI / name an unnamed street. One
> needs
> > to create the midlet for the area they are interested from planet.osm
> file /
> > XAPI requests using osm2gpsmid [2] (fairly simple) and install them on
> the
> > mobile to start mapping on their mobiles. (I thought it was only possible
> by
> > the folks with iPhone and mapzen, but now poorer folks too can :) )
> >
> > [1] http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net
> > [2] http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/osmtogpsmid.html
> > --
> > Regards
> > Srikanth.L
> > http://j.mp/SrikanthL
> >
>
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Srikanth.L
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