[Qgis-developer] Openmoko (was: Qgis api windows ce)

Joseph Reeves iknowjoseph at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 08:49:45 EDT 2008


hi Tim,

That sounds great, many thanks. Looking forward to 1.0.0 and any
future lite release.

Regards,

Joseph



2008/7/25 Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:
> Hi
>
>>
>> Supplying you with Openmoko hardware is certainly a possibility and
>> I'm sure we would be happy to support QGIS in this way. Software
>> options are also available; there's the toolchain for porting single
>> apps or the whole environment can be emulated:
>>
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Toolchain
>>
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_under_QEMU
>>
>
> Great I'm going to take a look at these resources. At the moment I am
> focussing on getting things ready for QGIS 1.0.0 and I will do some
> work on 'lite' version after that if someone hasnt beaten me to it.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>> Thanks for emailing and best regards,
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/7/25 Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:
>>> Hi Joseph & Godofredo
>>>
>>> Regarding this thread, I am wondering how practical it is to do an 'as
>>> is' port to these small form factor devices. Surely it would be better
>>> to:
>>>
>>>  - identify which features you would require
>>>  - create a trimmed down user interface using libqgis_core & libqgis_gui
>>>
>>> We could support such a minimalist UI within SVN itself (e.g.
>>> src/lite) and have a cmake directive to either compile the 'fat'
>>> application of the 'lite' one. On the desktop platform I have already
>>> been involved in making a few 'lite' QGIS applications that use the
>>> core QGIS, a couple of plugins and maptools. Its not difficult to do
>>> and would probably make using QGIS on such a device a more palatable
>>> experience.
>>>
>>> Is there any possibility of obtaining a development Openmoko unit
>>> running Qt4 for the QGIS project? Perhaps there is a software only
>>> emulator? If so I would be interested in taking a deeper look...
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2008/7/23 Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi Godofredo,
>>>>
>>>> A colleague of mine has just pointed me towards your email, I'm hoping
>>>> that I can persuade you to think about developing qgis for the
>>>> Openmoko platform rather than windows mobile :)
>>>>
>>>> The specifications for the FreeRunner phone, the first mass market
>>>> release of an Openmoko device, are very high:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Freerunner
>>>>
>>>> It's the screen that really wins it for me: 480x640 @ 285 dpi. Simply
>>>> put it's beautiful, and you can get a lot of GIS on there! There are
>>>> other reasons why a lot of people think it's the best mobile platform
>>>> currently available:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Why_Openmoko
>>>>
>>>> Currently the Openmoko platform runs a GTK based stack, although QT is
>>>> installable. In the near future this will be replaced by the so-called
>>>> ASU release which runs QT by default.
>>>>
>>>> SqLite is already available for Openmoko; I compiled PROJ.4 yesterday
>>>> and made some progress towards getting GEOS to work.
>>>>
>>>> I work for Oxford Archaeology and we are very keen on developing
>>>> mobile GIS applications. We have already provided hardware so that
>>>> gvSIG mobile can be developed on the Openmoko platform:
>>>>
>>>> http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.wordpress.com/
>>>>
>>>> My blog contains more information about our plans for this device and
>>>> why we think it's so perfect for a wide range of uses:
>>>>
>>>> http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/category/OLPA
>>>>
>>>> Please get in contact if you would like to discuss anything with
>>>> regard to the Openmoko platform.
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>>
>>>> Joseph
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi:
>>>>
>>>> I will try to compile the qgis api for windows mobile 5.
>>>> I have managed to compile most of dependencies:
>>>>
>>>> gdal
>>>> sqlite
>>>> geos
>>>> proj
>>>>
>>>> But now I found a problem, cmake does not have targets
>>>> for windows mobile platform. I have seen two possible options
>>>> one of them is generate qmake files for the api and the other
>>>> is to create the visual stuido project directly.
>>>>
>>>> what could be the best option? or should I try to generate a new
>>>> platform target for cmake?
>>>>
>>>> If the last is a good idea, any ideas to generate the platform
>>>> target?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Godofredo Contreras
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Tim Sutton
> QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager
> Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS
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