<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#ff0000;"><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi,<br><br>I'm leading a project to port the Bluemapia mobile client to Symbian OS. Bluemapia uses GDAL, so as part of the project we will also be porting GDAL.<br><br>In case you didn't already know, you can (mostly) use standard C/C++ on Symbian OS these days and Qt is also being ported (which we will use for the Bluemapia UI). With an increasingly Linux/Unix like user-space environment and new devices like the recently announced Nokia N97 on the way, I think that Symbian is an ideal platform for open source mobile GIS applications.<br><br>Any advice on porting GDAL would be very much appreciated.<br><br>Initially we'll only port a small subset of the GDAL drivers, but if anyone is interested in using this port and needs support for
specific drivers then please get in touch.<br><br>If anyone would like to get involved then you'd be very, very welcome! I'm also planning a "code camp" or mini-sprint to get the project started in London on Saturday 17th January. If you would like to attend then please email me before 6th January.<br><br>Links for the interested:<br>Project announcement blog post (with many further links):<br><a href="http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/mark-wilcoxs-forum-nokia-blog/2008/12/17/qt-on-s60-open-source-project-bluemapia">http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/mark-wilcoxs-forum-nokia-blog/2008/12/17/qt-on-s60-open-source-project-bluemapia</a><br>Bluemapia:<br><a href="http://www.bluemapia.com/">http://www.bluemapia.com</a><br>Nokia N97:<br><a href="http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1274500">http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1274500</a><br>Symbian OS being moved to open source:<br><a
href="http://www.symbianfoundation.org/">http://www.symbianfoundation.org/</a><br><br>Best regards,<br>Mark Wilcox<br><br></span></div></div><br>
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