[OSM-talk] WhereAmI: OSM on your mobile

[J.D. Schmidt]

Robert (Jamie) Munro skrev:
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> At the OSM Oxford Christmas meet-up, I showed a couple of people
> WhereAmI, an OSM map browsing application for Symbian based mobile
> phones. They thought it was very interesting, and were surprised it
> hadn't been talked about more here.
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> http://www.symbianos.org/projects/47
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> It works on Series 60 (second and third edition), Series 80, and UIQ
> phones, including the N95 with it's built in GPS. It can connect to an
> external bluetooth GPS, or you can just browse the map.
> 
> It uses a binary protocol to download a highly compressed but live
> version of the map, and also has a feature that lets you only download
> what has changed since the last time you downloaded, so you can keep up
> to date without using all your bandwidth allowance.
> 
> There's quite a few unimplemented features, but it's looking like a
> really promising effort.
> 
> Robert (Jamie) Munro

Thanks for the headsup. Going to check it out on my UIQ 3 based Sony 
Ericsson P990i. Might even give me the incitament to finally lug a BT 
gps device around with me.

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