[OSGeo-Discuss] Mobile GPS data collection...

[Mateusz Loskot]

Aaron Koning wrote:
> I think you are spot on Bob! Do you have a web server in mind? What are
> the options for web servers on the Windows Mobile platform? ApacheCE is
> a fairly dated project that ported Apache 1.x to WindowsCE. Does anyone
> know if there is a newer Apache port for Windows Mobile or does
> compiling Apache from source work well on Windows Mobile? What about PHP?

Here is a list of HTTP servers for Windows CE-based platforms I know:

1) vxWeb

http://www.cam.com/vxweb.html

2) AppWeb HTTP embedded server
http://www.appwebserver.org/
http://www.mbedthis.com/index.html
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS4106637254.html

3) Pocket Wireless Webserver
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/06/1522257


4) SOAP and XML-RPC protocols for Pocket PC (Windows CE-based platform)

http://www.pocketsoap.com


By the way, for all of you interested, here is a very good explanation
what are Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC and Smarphone platforms:
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.WindowsMobileFeedback

> Also, anybody have experience with PostgreSQL and PostGIS on Windows Mobile?

I have not even thought about such possibility.
Wouldn't be PostgreSQL too heavy for mobile devices?
I don't know yet much of PostgreSQL internals, so I'm not sure if
it is possible to cut down the engine to achive as best performance as
possible.

I think it would be simplier to add generic spatial functionality to
SQLite engine. There is a very wide interest in such features in SQLite
so I'm quite sure we could count on pretty good response from the
community and even design/coding/testing support.
Most of ideas of spatial features in SQLite were proposed by Noel
Frankinet from GISTEK (http://www.gistek.net, I used to work with Noel
for a while and I remember his interests in Open Source. He also
released some of his projects as OSS).

Here is a list of threads about spatial features in SQLite:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/5251/focus=5251
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/14098/focus=14098
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/19353/focus=19353
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/2675/focus=2690
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/19690/focus=19715
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/19423/focus=19423

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