[OSM-talk] Mobile countryside surveying tool

Nick Whitelegg Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Wed Sep 30 16:47:04 BST 2009


>This sounds interesting, but could you describe a bit more what you had 
>in mind? I would particularly be interested to know how it would differ 
>to the already existing mobile tools and if it is not possible to add 
>this functionality to them, given that you can do a fair amount with 
>them already. If your ideas aren't too radically different, I might be 
>able to (help) add some of these to GpsMid.

A "notes" sort of app, where you could add a geo-located note in a field 
reading "Hedge to left of path", "Hedge continues to field corner and 
meets the fence on south side of field", "Path becomes track here", 
"Another track crosses path", etc: these notes could be uploaded to a 
server (perhaps OpenStreetBugs) and then made available in JOSM, or 
Potlatch, as a separate layer.

Nick




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