[OSGeo-Discuss] Mobile GIS reloaded

Mateusz Loskot mateusz at loskot.net
Fri Aug 25 08:05:53 PDT 2006


Bob Basques wrote:
> Silke Reimer wrote:
>> Hallo!
>>
>> I have been very pleased to see the thread about Mobile GIS on
>> osgeo-discuss when I have come back from a three weeks vacation
>> time. This kind of applications seems to become increasingly
>> important and it would really nice to have a framework of Free GIS
>> tools to fulfill certain main tasks.
>>
>> There has been the idea to have a BOF session at Lausanne. So far
>> two persons have announced their interest: Tim Bowden and Mateusz
>> Loskot. I am interested as well and wanted to now whether there are
>> already more concrete plannings around.
>>
>> Furthermore I wanted to know whether there are any news about
>> hosting a mobile gis development at maptools (Tyler?). If not I can
>> offer project registration on wald.intevation.org, which is a
>> platform based on gforge. Thus SVN, issue tracker, Wiki,
>> email lists etc. could be made availabe in short term. We just would
>> have to decide for a name and for project admin(s).
>>
>> Many greetings,
>>
>>     Silke
>>
>>   
> All,
> 
> I've not been posting because of other pressing needs.  But I can now
> announce that I may have some hardware available to test some things
> with, although these might be a little left of the field vs mainstream.
> 
>    * Recent MACBook Pro purchase.
>    * Socket BlueTooth GPS
>    * Working  on an AirCard of some sort for Wireless.  I can use My
>      Treo650 in a pinch as a modem, still not my preference at this
>      point though.

Hi,

Do you mean it will be available during FOSS4G or you are eager
to send it to developers?

> I read some way back that there was a WIKI setup for some of the item
> already written up, can someone point me to it easily?

Here is the wiki I know about mobile solutions:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Mobile_Solutions

Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net




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