[OSM-talk] Nokia Mobile Phone - GPS
Shaun McDonald
shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Sun May 10 09:54:32 BST 2009
There is the following long list on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Mobilephones
To have a grid of phone and app, would produce a grid that is too
large to be useful.
The app that I use is TrackMyJourney (which has the ability to display
of OSM data, and the option for routing over the OSM data with live
updating if you go off route fetching the route via the internet). It
has everything you are looking for except direct editing of the data.
If you make a donation to the developer to cover the server/bandwidth/
development costs, you can get access to a version that has vector map
download.
Shaun
On 10 May 2009, at 09:22, Peter Childs wrote:
> 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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