[OSM-talk] Nokia Mobile Phone - GPS
Chris Browet
cbro at semperpax.com
Sun May 10 09:46:38 BST 2009
Hi Peter,
I just myself got the new Nokia 5800, which is S60v5. Nokia having bought
Trolltech (and thus Qt), there is now a preview verion of Qt for S60.
Merkaartor being built on top of Qt, a version for S60 (or at least a mapper
for S60 built upon the building blocks of Merkaartor) is more than feasible
and I'm working on it, time permittig.
Unfortunately, the desktop version of Merkaartor already takes 95% of my
available time, so the allocatble time is little.
If you have C++/Qt knowledge or want to learn, I'd be more than happy to get
a helping hand!
Besides that, I've learned that developing on S60/C++ is a nightmare without
using a toolkit like Qt. For a casual developer, the only other alternative
is J2ME and I think there is already a ton of apps which could fit your
needs or enjoy your patches ;-)
Regards
- Chris -
2009/5/10 Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org>
> I've just got a new Nokia 6220 Classic Mobile Phone. Its got a built
> in GPS which means I've been able to get out and get a bit more
> mapping done.... (Since I did not have a GPS this has been difficult)
>
> I've got the Sport Tracker software installed, which seams to be
> relatively good at getting tracks, But the Maps on the Nokia by
> default are hmm expensive and obviously Not OSM.
>
> Since I'm a software developer.... I'm speculating how easy it would
> be to write something in Java ME, C++ or Python for the phone, and
>
> a> Display OSM Maps, either a> From Raw OSM data (probably not the
> whole thing due to space), or from Tiles pre-downloaded, or possibly
> fetched as needed in the field using 3G..
>
> b> Field Tag, so you can stand next to the feature and tag it, or
> stand at one end of the road start way, walk to other end way and tag,
> then either direct upload as you go or clean up (removing excessive
> point in ways for example) and upload once you get home.
>
> c> Route and anything else one can dream of doing with Maps.
>
> I'm thinking such a piece of software would be relatively platform
> independent, and therefore usefully to anyone with a mobile or PDA
> that can run Java ME, (Which I think but I'm not sure should be most
> 3rd Generation Mobiles not just S60s)
>
> Never having developed Mobile Apps before, it just looks like an
> interesting idea, and this is more of a proof of concept than anything
> else at this stage.
>
> Peter.
> PS Does anything more exist that will run on the phone, The Wiki does
> not seam to say so currently. I might add to the wiki....
>
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