<div dir="ltr">Hey <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Andreas,</span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">With a bit of work you can make QGIS work pretty well on a touch device. I have it running nice on a Windows Surface with a reduced interface and some Python code. This is why I built QMap. </span><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/nzd1sziwrmacxbc/qmap.png">https://www.dropbox.com/s/nzd1sziwrmacxbc/qmap.png</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">- Nathan</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Andreas Neumann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" target="_blank">a.neumann@carto.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Leo,<br>
<br>
QGIS is far from being optimal for mobile solutions currently. I hope<br>
this can be improved with future versions. There is an effort going on<br>
for QGIS an Android. See <a href="http://android.qgis.org/" target="_blank">http://android.qgis.org/</a> and<br>
<a href="http://android.qgis.org/download/qgis-for-android.pdf" target="_blank">http://android.qgis.org/download/qgis-for-android.pdf</a><br>
<br>
Personally - if you do a lot of data input (esp. with text) - I would<br>
use a small laptop or notebook - not a tablet. The virtual keyboards are<br>
way inferior to physical keyboards. The other thing is that QGIS desktop<br>
UI is not yet optimized for touch usage. It may work - sort of - but is<br>
certainly not a good user experience.<br>
<br>
If you deal primarily with point data and want to use a phone/table -<br>
you may want to have a look at Nextgis mobile - see the email thread<br>
starting here:<br>
<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2013-July/023123.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2013-July/023123.html</a> - it<br>
will collaborate with QGIS and is more user-friendly and light-weight.<br>
<br>
Don't get me wrong - I hope that QGIS improves in mobile space - and<br>
work has already started. And I would appreciate if more<br>
people/organizations would put work or financial resources into<br>
improving it. But if you look for a good and quick solution now - you<br>
will probably be disappointed.<br>
<br>
------<br>
<br>
To answer some of your other questions: You can also attach a form to<br>
non-geometry table. You can then open the form by right-clicking a row<br>
in the attribute table - again - this may be a bad experience on a<br>
touch-device, where the rows in the table may be too small and you would<br>
probably have to long-click as there is no right-click.<br>
<br>
BTW: why do you have the impression that only Windows tablets would<br>
work? You can also use Linux/Ubuntu based tablets or Android tablets.<br>
The Android version still needs some further improvements/testing.<br>
<br>
Panasonic does good outdoor tablets:<br>
<a href="http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughpad/us/best-android-rugged-tablet-overview.asp" target="_blank">http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughpad/us/best-android-rugged-tablet-overview.asp</a><br>
<br>
Hope this helps. I would love to see the mobile input improved in QGIS.<br>
<br>
Andreas<br>
<br>
Am 19.07.2013 03:32, schrieb Leo Kris Palao:<br>
<div class="im">> Dear QGIS Users,<br>
><br>
> I am exploring the synergy of QGIS and QT on a tablet for field work and<br>
> field validation activities. I learn this functionality from Nathan<br>
> Woodrow. As I understand, I need QGIS-dev and QT-dev packages to facilitate<br>
> the integration of QT forms in QGIS. This require the use of OSGeo4W<br>
> installer to install the packages, hence this makes Windows-based tablets<br>
> appropriate to use.<br>
><br>
> Right now, the only way to use the QT designer in QGIS is to have a vector<br>
> point layer in which the fields are linked to the widgets in the QT form.<br>
</div>> In this case, for QT form to work (*pop-up in the map*) a user should<br>
<div class="im">> digitize a point in the map canvass. Is there a way to use the GPS<br>
</div>> location/coordinates (*like mark waypoint in GPS*) instead of digitizing my<br>
<div class="im">> points? For instance, I can use the current GPS location instead of<br>
> manually digitizing my points. Or it can be the other way around, where I<br>
> have an existing point layer and when you select on a specific point<br>
> feature in the map canvass the QT forms will pop-up and populate or update<br>
> the attribute information of that point. Does this makes sense?<br>
><br>
> By the way (if it is okay), can anybody recommend a good windows-based<br>
> tablet (that can support QGIS and QT, longer battery life, and with minimal<br>
> glare when used outdoors)?<br>
><br>
> Thank you.<br>
> -Leo<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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