[Qgis-psc] QGIS for Mobile (Android)

Wed Oct 16 03:21:42 PDT 2019

Hi all

well we had the very same thoughts recently concerning the QWC2 suite
which deserves to be listed as part of the QGIS ecosystem, and as a
community driven project. It is already hosted in the github QGIS
organisation, but is only mentionned in the mailing list's page [0]

This deserves to be documented in a dedicated page for web clients in
the website.

Any objection to add one?

Regards,

Régis

On 15/10/2019 16:30, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
>
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>> On 15 Oct 2019, at 11:50, Saber Razmjooei
>> <saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk
>> <mailto:saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> Many thanks for your response. 
>>
>> I agree, the QGIS On Android app is out-dated and needs to be removed
>> (as discussed in the previous meetings). But the proposal goes beyond
>> what it had been discussed. 
>>
>> In terms of QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/>'s endorsement as the official
>> app on platform X, would be good to have some guidelines/checklists.
>> As far as I know all the apps are GPL licensed and that alone would
>> not be sufficient. 
>>
>> There is not much external code contribution to each of those
>> applications, outside the sponsored organisations. So, a fair way,
>> would be to have a page on the QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> website:
>>
>> 1- Explaining the technical capabilities of QGIS libraries (e.g.
>> QgsQuick) and SDKs (OSGeo4A and OSGeo4iOS) to create mobile apps (for
>> developers)
>> 2- List the existing apps with a short description (for users)
>
> That sounds like a very good approach to me too. 
>
> I think Marco was also talking about having QField main repo moved to
> the QGIS.org <http://QGIS.org> GitHub repo (correct Marco?). Though I
> don’t think this needs to be a pre-requisite to being listed on the
> QGIS download page.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Saber
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 10:48, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net
>> <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Saber,
>>
>>     This was indeed discussed but is pending approval by the QField
>>     contributors. Up to now it is only a suggestion.
>>
>>     It wouldn't be "the official" QGIS mobile app, but rather "the
>>     official" QGIS mobile app on Android. There could be an
>>     "official" mobile app on iOS and on Windows as well. At the same
>>     time we would like to "retire/depricate" the old "QGIS on
>>     Android" project that hadn't been worked on for a long time. We
>>     would like to encourage other projects (such as "Input" and "QGIS
>>     Roam" to do the same, if there aren't any license or technical
>>     barriers.
>>
>>     He haven't discussed your option "2" yet. It would be nice to
>>     have the same synchronisation service work for QField, QGIS Roam
>>     and Input.
>>
>>     Thanks for reaching out about this,
>>
>>     Andreas
>>
>>     On 2019-10-15 10:58, Saber Razmjooei wrote:
>>
>>>     Dear PSC,
>>>      
>>>     Looking at the minutes of the last PSC meeting [1], there was
>>>     some discussion about qgis.org <http://qgis.org/> adopting
>>>     QField as the official QGIS mobile app. This is very interesting
>>>     / exciting and we had a couple of questions:
>>>
>>>     1- Would this mean the QField codebase would be formally adopted
>>>     by the QGIS project with the same developer procedures / rights
>>>     as the main QGIS codebase?
>>>
>>>     The reason we ask is that we're working on a new data
>>>     synchronisation service for mobile GIS (Mergin) and would be
>>>     interested in how we could get QField to integrate with it.  So
>>>     the second question is:
>>>
>>>     2- Given the fact that Mergin is a freemium service (not open
>>>     source) would such a pull request to integrate this service be
>>>     welcome in the same way that things like Oracle / MSSQL / ArcSDE
>>>     support work in QGIS desktop? 
>>>
>>>     Kind regards,
>>>     Saber
>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     Saber Razmjooei
>>>     www.lutraconsulting.co.uk <http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/>
>>>      
>>>     [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qeXinguVrNTuRucdqm86Fcunks3UHpEtRi-rO73Dc7o/edit
>>>
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>> -- 
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