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

Fri Jul 25 11:09:30 EDT 2008

Hi Joseph and Tim:

In the next days I will be setting up a machine to start 
building qgis dependencies. 

Tim one question, using cmake will require to create
a new target platform, do you know where I can find 
some information about?

Joseph do you know wich of the dependencies are 
already ported? the list is the following:

sqlite
geos
proj
gdal

Regards
Godofredo Contreras

> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:49:45 +0100
> From: iknowjoseph at gmail.com
> To: tim at linfiniti.com; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Openmoko (was: Qgis api windows ce)
> CC: 
> 
> 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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> >>
> >
> >
> >
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