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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Milo,</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">You don't need to convince me on the Open side of things, it's why I chose to try out the Nokia. I'm actually going to buy 3 more of them, if all goes as planned, mostly for prototyping and such to build support for follow on work.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">bobb</font> </p>
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Hello Bob!<br><br>I started out using moblin as my "en route" OS of choice. On my asus<br>1005HA eee pc, it turned out to be the fastest, easiest to use (even on<br>bumpy rides) and flexible enough. I managed to connect moblin via<br>bluetooth to my gps and to my mobile phone. I use my mobile phone as 3G<br>modem. Then I started using it for openstreetmap work by getting osm2go up.<br><br>My goal is to get meego up to the same task: an excelent mobile solution<br>for communication and (lightweight) geodata collection. Besides that I<br>am waiting for the nokia device that will follow up on the N900, rumours<br>has it will be called the N9, but those rumours haven't been confirmed<br>by nokia.<br><br>Why meego and not android? Because I am always looking at alternative<br>products that will prevent single parties to become dominant. This has<br>nothing to do with reason, it is purely out of ideology ;-)<br><br>I am now running the 1.0 release and believe it or not, it is a small<br>step down from moblin 2.1. Although it boots faster, the interface looks<br>like a candystore and not all components have a synced look and feel.<br>Chromium for instance is not integrated in the panels as much as the<br>moblin browser was, and some apps suddenly have gray window decoration<br>while others have black. With moblin I would have people ooh and aah<br>when I did a business presentation with it, meego with its "OS for kids"<br>look has to stay in the box a little while longer.<br><br>For me meego == choice. I don't intend my eee pc it to be a desktop<br>replacer, I cannot imagine myself programming on 1024x600 resolution.<br>But it is my companion on the road and since I travel by train a lot,<br>the best companion I had so far with almost 8h of battery power. And<br>even for business meetings, I don't need to bring a heavy 15" or more<br>anymore. The eee will do perfect and run like a charm<br><br><br><br>Bob Basques wrote:<br>><br>> Milo,<br>><br>><br>> You mentioned MEEGO in your post, I just ordered a N900 to do some<br>> testing for GIS related stuff on the N900.  What types of<br>> functionalities are you focusing your efforts on for MEEGO?<br>><br>><br>> bobb<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> >>> miblon <moblin@dogodigi.net> wrote:<br>><br>> I have been using navit and osm2go on moblin. There is a debian build<br>> for osm2go which is targeted at maemo, I managed to get it up on moblin<br>> and will try to get it running on meego.<br>><br>> If you are interested in me filling the blanks for these 2 apps on your<br>> feature list, let me know.<br>><br>> Kind regards,<br>><br>> Milo van der Linden<br>><br>> Miguel Montesinos wrote:<br>> > Hello to all,<br>> ><br>> > I'm preparing a presentation for the FOSS4G, with title "Comparison of<br>> > Mobile GIS applications". I know some, but I think that the best way to<br>> > make an objective analysis is to offer the chance for anyone to<br>> > collaborate, in order to define common feature lists as well as<br>> > perfomance or usability check lists.<br>> ><br>> > Is anyone developing or using a mobile geospatial application<br>> > interested?<br>> ><br>> > Regards,<br>> ><br>> > ---------------------------------------------<br>> > Miguel Montesinos<br>> > CTO<br>> > PRODEVELOP, S.L.<br>> > mmontesinos [at] prodevelop [dot] es<br>> > www.prodevelop.es<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Discuss mailing list<br>> > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>> > <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>> ><br>> > <br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Discuss mailing list<br>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Discuss mailing list<br>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>>  <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>
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