[OSM-talk] OSM on Mobile Phones (and beyond!)

tim chippy2005 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 16:20:32 BST 2007


Indeed the N800's are lovely, and maeomo-mapper does seem to be one of
the star applications for it.  Would like to know more about the j2me
port, and wonder if its planning on working on other phones therefore.

On 7/3/07, Jason Reid <osm at bowvalleytechnologies.com> wrote:
> Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
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> > tim wrote:
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> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In preparation for my talk at SOTM on "OSM on Your Phone", I'd like to
> >> know if you've come across, used, or have thoughts on Openstreetmap
> >> with mobile phones.
> >>
> >> Show of hands, ideas, thoughts, experiences and hacks, recording
> >> tracks, displaying maps on common Java enabled phones,
> >> embedded/bluetooth GPS, on newer smart phones, whatever!
> >>
> >> Ideas about how the iphone (when it gets a GPS chip) or the cooler
> >> OpenMoko phone (it has one already) and openstreetmap would be great
> >> too!
> >>
> >
> > You do know about the Nokia 770/N800 and the maemo mapper application,
> > don't you?
> >
> > A random screenshot I found is e.g.
> > http://eko.one.pl/files/n770/maemo-mapper/maemo-mapper-gpsinfo2.jpg
> >
> > Uses bluetooth GPS and can display Google maps but also works flawlessly
> > with OSM. I use it to record tracks for OSM.
> >
> > spaetz
> >
> Same here, I have the N800 model and a bluetooth GPS. For now just using
> Maemo-mapper for viewing the map (via tiles downloaded to its SD card
> prior to going anywhere) and also for recording my gps track logs. Works
> very nicely, and with the supposed upcoming java port to it (a variant
> of J2ME, not the full J2SE) it may be possible to create some more
> 'on-the-go' type mapping software.
>
> -Jason Reid
>
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