[Qgis-user] Mobile GIS

[Nicklas Avén]

Yes, I really agree that a Lite version would be great. 

How big screen is needed I think is mostly depending on what you are going to do and if the computor is the only tool you are carrying or it it is desirable to instead always have it in the pocket. 

>From using Arcpad I think that the functionality of importance is
*  easy map pan and zoom with one hand
*  Digitizing where both stylus and gps can be used. The GPS both for tracking and single vertexpoints.
*Support for SpatialLite, shapefiles, wms, wfs, and wfs-t would be great.

I think it is important to early get a picture about what functionality should be there because every unnecessary functionality will be more of irritation, both because the user interface will be messed up, and because the system resources will go to things you don't want.

Of course some easy customization is great, but to keep it down all over I think is prio one.

I really hope for QGIS here. I guess (am I right?) that QGIS gives better possibilities to build a real slimmed application than the java-alternatives.

Regards
Nicklas



2010-04-19 Noli Sicad  wrote:

Meego is another candidate platform for mobile gis.
>
>Asus T91mt and T101mt have resistive touch screens. The mt stands for
>multi touch. These two devices will run Meego as well. We have to wait
>unitl, end of May to see the real "Meego 1.0" with Maemo 6 i.e.
>Marmattan UI framework. Right now, nothing is showing up about UI in
>meego dev mailinglist.
>
>In my opinion 3.5 screen of N900 is not probably quite good for gis
>editing but will do.
>
>But I really think that qgis should develop a qgis lite version for
>the tablets and mobile phones.
>
>Noli
>
>On 4/19/10, Nicklas Avén wrote:
>> Hallo
>>
>> How about Maemo/Meegoo has anyone tried compiling QGIS on Nokia 900.
>>
>> One impotant thing to think about when discussing Mobile GIS is what display
>> technique is used on different devices. We have tryied to run ArcPad on
>> devices with capasitive displayes and that is good for looking at data, but
>> you can never digitize on the screen. Then you will need a resisitive screen
>> and a stylus. I don't know about Android devices but many windows devices
>> are now using the capasitive technique because it is  smoother when just
>> looking in your calender and so on. I think tkis makes Nokia 900 with Maemo
>> 5 very interesting because it has a resistive touchscreen among many other
>> features. I think the hardware lso supports multi touch.
>> I am myself a happy N900 user, but one of the reasons I bought it was to get
>> a potent GIS software into it :-)
>> /Nicklas
>>
>> 2010-04-19 Noli Sicad  wrote:
>>
>> One can start building QGIS Lite (Mobile GIS) for Android using:
>>>
>>>1. Qt for Android - Android Lighthouse
>>>http://qt.gitorious.org/~taipan/qt/android-lighthouse/trees/android-4.7/demos
>>>
>>>2. Android x86 in Asus T91mt and Aus T101mt (Convertable Netbooks)
>>>http://www.android-x86.org/
>>>
>>>We don't need to wait for Android tablets to be released.
>>>
>>>1+ for me.
>>>
>>>Noli
>>>
>>>On 4/19/10, paolo wrote:
>>>> +1 for me. I'm available for help on Android.
>>>>
>>>> Paolo Cavallini http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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>>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>>> Da: "Miguel Montesinos"
>>>> Data: lun, apr 19, 2010 02:14
>>>> Oggetto: [Qgis-user] Mobile GIS
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