[GRASS-user] Data Capturing

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:47 PM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you want to record GIS shape data (polylines, polygons etc) directly in the field then a windows mobile device running ArcPad is ideal. This is a more expensive option (ESRI options are always expensive)  - and therefore not one that we would necessarily want students playing with unattended however!
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> You touched a sensible point... I still miss an OS counterpart to
> ArcPad. I still hope that someone will invest on this.

Something is ongoing:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Mobile_Solutions
http://code.google.com/p/jvnmobilegis/

Markus