[OSM-talk] Mobile countryside surveying tool

[John Smith]

2009/10/1 Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>:
> To try and support as many as possible - Qt is another option when the
> Symbian version becomes available, Android is interesting but maybe not
> widespread enough yet, iPhone is platform specific (and has to be approved
> by Apple which is a big problem), .NET again is platform specific.

The company I work for has released a BB/Android app to do POI stuff,
we may release an iPhone/WinMo and Symbian versions in future
depending on interest etc.

There is a diff app to do vector editing on android but it's too
hard/difficult to bother with to be honest, to be completely frank I
found trying to map by phone too cumbersome and bought an eeePC as
carting about a full size laptop was too much of a hassle too.

Cloud Made is supposed to be releasing an iPhone app, but that seems
to be vapour ware at present.

> I'm not sure that many modern phones support full Java do they? For
> instance the Nokia N-series (which are usually considered smartphones) use
> Java ME, not full Java.

As far as I'm aware only blackberry supports j2me apps. There is an
emulator for android but it sucks and doesn't work very well if at all
for any of the apps I tried.