[Qgis-user] Mobile GIS

[Noli Sicad]

Hi Miguel,

Thank you for informing about the android mapviewer. I hope that in
the near future it would be capable to be mobile gis as Phillip
described - Android Mobile GIS.

Ubuntu tablets are coming as well.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/19/sharps-netwalker-pc-t1-is-the-very-definition-of-an-mid-coming/

I think QGIS can easily run on these devices as well.

But I refer to have an Android Mobile GIS app in android since most of
the these devices has built-in GPS.

Regards,

Noli

On 4/21/10, Miguel Montesinos <mmontesinos at prodevelop.es> wrote:
> Hi Phillip and Noli,
>
> We have developed the application Phillip points out. It doen't support
> those features so far, but if you like to use it as a base, we are ready
> to collaborate in order to support the creation of geometries (point,
> polyline, polygon) from the GPS (or hand-based), or some other vector
> capabilitites.
>
> I've recently acquired my third Android phone, and I'm sure that Android
> projection is going to be really impressive (it's right now, as a matter
> of fact).
>
> It will be great to extend the community of users and developers of this
> application.
>
> Regards,
>
> Miguel Montesinos
>
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> De: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
>> En nombre de Noli Sicad
>> Enviado el: martes, 20 de abril de 2010 23:33
>> Para: Philipp Auersperg-Castell
>> CC: qgis-user
>> Asunto: Re: [Qgis-user] Mobile GIS
>>
>> Hi Phillip,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing your project and ideas.
>>
>> Have you tried this app.
>>
>> https://confluence.prodevelop.es/display/GVMN/Home
>>
>> Probably you can borrow some of their codes to incorporate to what you
>> have started. It is GPL project as as well. I think there is no edit
>> function in the map viewer.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Noli
>>
>> On 4/21/10, Philipp Auersperg-Castell <phil at bluedynamics.com> wrote:
>> > IT depends what you need from the mobile GIS application,I am
>> > currently poking around with android, Qgis and MapServer for
> forrestry
>> > mapping.
>> > I used Qgis to develop a forest map for my forest enterprise, with
>> > PostGis as backend.
>> >
>> > Recently Ive bought my first Android smartphone with GPS integrated
>> > and in consequence there came up the wish to display my forest map
> in
>> > GoogleMaps (with the satellite image as background) and the ability
> to
>> > mark points or areas by GPS and upload them into the GIS.
>> >
>> > So I typed 'gis' and 'map' and similar terms into Android Market
>> > (=AppStore in the Android world) and found nothing useful except
> apps
>> > for geocaching, hiking, mountainbiking and the like, but
>> > nothing that would fit my needs.
>> >
>> > As a consequence I started experimenting with the Android SDK and
>> > found out that it is not too much work to use the MapView shipping
>> > with the SDK to display stuff on top of the google satellite image.
>> > With the help of JTS (a java library for geo stuff,
>> > http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm)
>> >   it was less than 100 lines of code to display polygon layers as
>> > overlay into the MapView. Most of the work was to get initially
>> > familiar with Android SDK and its philosophy, and with its
> integration
>> > to eclipse it seems quite handy to me.
>> >
>> > The next Problem is how to get my maps from Qgis/Postgis to my
> phone,
>> > there I decided for an online solution with MapServer as backend.
> QGis
>> > has MapServerExport as plugin, so its no big deal to  export a QGIS
>> > project to MapServer. Then I wrote an xmlrpc server (around 150
> lines
>> > of python code including coordinate transformation) which deploys
> the
>> > layer features in the WKT format, that I parse on my handheld with
> the
>> > help of JTS library and the module mentioned above displays it on my
>> > MapView.
>> >
>> > I also wrote some code to capture coordinates (points and areas)
> with
>> > GPS and are currently working on uploading them into the GIS server.
>> > My software can even mark remote points using the handheld's camera
>> > and the device's internal compass for the direction. I then just
> have
>> > to manually enter the distance read from a laser distance meter and
>> > have my point location.
>> >
>> > All that is by far not production ready but serves for me as a proof
>> > of concept that I can display my map online from my server on my
>> > android phone and be able to digitize features with GPS.
>> >
>> > If anybody is working on such a beast please let me know if you are
>> > interested in doing some work together....
>> >
>> > regards
>> > Philipp
>> >
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