[Qgis-psc] QGIS for Mobile (Android)

[Nyall Dawson]

> I would be strongly in favour of finding a way to get it into the App Store for the simple pragmatic reason of wanting as many people as possible to be able to freely use QGIS and its derivatives on whichever platform they choose.

Agreed. Our fight is NOT against apple, Google, or the inherent evil
of App Stores. Our fight is against the vendors of proprietary,
lock-in GIS solutions (including widely-available mobile solutions),
and THAT'S where we need to focus our efforts.

Nyall



>
> Regards
>
> Tim
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> Should a study by an IP lawyer be made and published, that could ease a
> decision. But I guess the cost would be quite high. If it validates
> point B, then we would still have point A to evaluate.
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> I had raised 2 questions in my initial email and would be interested to
> see how those scenarios would be handled if QField becomes the official
> QGIS mobile (Android) app?
>
>
> Saber, as for question 2, I would personally be in favor of a plugin
> system to access the mergin freemium service, for QField (or any app
> endorsed by the QGIS project), instead of a core pull request. It would
> also ease the maintenance.
> If this system is optional in the installation, I have no argument
> against having an official QGIS project application support it.
> Especially if opensource alternatives exist.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vincent
>
>
> Also a note about Input and data synchronisation, you can use your USB
> cable, Bluetooth, wifi, ... to sync the data and there is no need for
> our service. In the same way, you can completely avoid Oracle
> database data provider and use your PostGIS or Shapefile.
>
> Regards
> Saber
>
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 15:43, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it
> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
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>    Hi all,
>
>    On 15/10/19 16:30, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>    I think we are all on the same line here. Of course we'll treat all
>    projects equally, so all other parts of QGIS broader ecosystem are
>    welcome to start discussing the steps to join.
>    Regards.
>
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