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== Why you are here? == | == Why you are here? == | ||
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| − | + | === Silke === | |
| − | + | * It's possible there is an opportunity to found some work on Open Source mobile | |
| − | + | * Contribution of project management, infrastructure, place for meetings, marketing stuff, may be founds. | |
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| − | + | === Just === | |
| − | + | * On-line services. | |
| − | + | * Apps for mobile phones. | |
| − | + | * Multimedia features. | |
| − | + | * Tracking platform for mobile devices. | |
| − | Contribute | + | * Contribute multimedia features, Java development. |
| − | + | === Tim === | |
| − | Collecting data | + | * Collecting data in a field. |
| − | + | * Consume data in a field | |
| − | + | * Synchronize data on mobile devices against servers. | |
| − | + | * Provide building blocks, not end user application. | |
| − | + | * Contribute use cases, testing and ideas. | |
| − | Contribute | ||
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| − | + | === Till === | |
| − | + | * Collecting data infrastructure features in a field | |
| − | + | * Identify object in a field | |
| − | + | * The idea was/is to develop a client that provides data and identification tool, | |
| − | + | * POI, ROI, Routing tool. | |
| − | + | * The idea is to connect central database with mobile client. | |
| − | + | * Contribute: experience about Java Script (->Web based) on mobile devices, ideas, testing. | |
| + | * Looking for: well-designed and developed platform. | ||
| − | + | === Brent === | |
| − | + | * Data collection in a field and server upload capabilities. | |
| − | + | * Use mobile device as an input device, not only for output/data provider. | |
| − | + | * Good accuracy level. | |
| + | * Collect control points to rectify satellite image. | ||
| + | * Precise navigation and locating capabilities. | ||
| + | * Mobile device -> iPAQ | ||
| − | + | === Frederic === | |
| − | + | * Interested in mobile solutions. | |
| − | + | * Works for private sector, not Open Source company. | |
| − | + | * LBS for mobile platform. | |
| − | + | === Ludovic === | |
| − | + | * Works with ArcPad based solutions. | |
| − | + | * Inventory of features in field. | |
| + | * Contribute: testing | ||
| − | + | === Tyler === | |
| − | + | * Provide advanced features of visualization, 3D, etc. | |
| + | * Tablet PC | ||
| − | Mateusz | + | === ??? === |
| − | Interested in development of mobile GIS framework, a set of libraries | + | * iPod-based solution |
| − | and components usable in other projects, end-user solutions. | + | |
| − | Provide foundations for mobile GIS development. | + | === Mateusz === |
| − | GUI independent. | + | * Interested in development of mobile GIS framework, a set of libraries and components usable in other projects, end-user solutions. |
| + | * Provide foundations for mobile GIS development. | ||
| + | * GUI independent. | ||
== Project output == | == Project output == | ||
Revision as of 05:21, 19 September 2006
Where, When and Who?
- Place: FOSS4G 2006 conference, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Starting date: 13-Sep-2006, 18:00
- Duration: 02h00'
- Presenters:
- Mrs. REIMER, Silke
- Mr. BOWDEN, Tim
- Mr. LOSKOT, Mateusz
Mobile GIS BOF Attendees
NOTE: Please, add yourself if you're not on the list or fix your name if it's incorrectly spelled below.
- Brent Fraser
- David Villalon
- Frank Warmerdam
- Frederic Pouget
- Jan-Oliver Wagner
- Just van den Broecke
- Ludovic LESTRAT
- Mateusz Loskot
- Silke Reimer
- Till
- Tim Bowden
- Tyler Mitchell
Why you are here?
NOTE: Please, add your notes below if anything is missing.
Silke
- It's possible there is an opportunity to found some work on Open Source mobile
- Contribution of project management, infrastructure, place for meetings, marketing stuff, may be founds.
Just
- On-line services.
- Apps for mobile phones.
- Multimedia features.
- Tracking platform for mobile devices.
- Contribute multimedia features, Java development.
Tim
- Collecting data in a field.
- Consume data in a field
- Synchronize data on mobile devices against servers.
- Provide building blocks, not end user application.
- Contribute use cases, testing and ideas.
Till
- Collecting data infrastructure features in a field
- Identify object in a field
- The idea was/is to develop a client that provides data and identification tool,
- POI, ROI, Routing tool.
- The idea is to connect central database with mobile client.
- Contribute: experience about Java Script (->Web based) on mobile devices, ideas, testing.
- Looking for: well-designed and developed platform.
Brent
- Data collection in a field and server upload capabilities.
- Use mobile device as an input device, not only for output/data provider.
- Good accuracy level.
- Collect control points to rectify satellite image.
- Precise navigation and locating capabilities.
- Mobile device -> iPAQ
Frederic
- Interested in mobile solutions.
- Works for private sector, not Open Source company.
- LBS for mobile platform.
Ludovic
- Works with ArcPad based solutions.
- Inventory of features in field.
- Contribute: testing
Tyler
- Provide advanced features of visualization, 3D, etc.
- Tablet PC
???
- iPod-based solution
Mateusz
- Interested in development of mobile GIS framework, a set of libraries and components usable in other projects, end-user solutions.
- Provide foundations for mobile GIS development.
- GUI independent.
Project output
We can see three different applications for mobile devices: a) End-user application, a kind of viewer or editor b) Data collecting solution, with GPS, editing and automation features c) The third one, is a kind of LSB solution for mobile phones or other small devices with GPS/GSM capabilities.
a) and b) are main lines of development proposal. c) is very different application to a) and b)
Development platform
a) Langauge: - C/C++ - it seems to be our language of choice - Java - mainly used on mobile phones - Python - who has worked with Python on mobile devices?
b) Operating platform - Windows Mobile >= 5.0 - the main OS on the mobile devices market at the moment; target platform of the first prototype - Linux - most of us would prefer to develop for Linux, but it's not very popular yet, no commercial support for Linux-based mobile devices, etc.
b) Tools: - Visual Studio 2005 - a commercial toolset, the only option for Windows Mobile development :-( - gcc-based toolset for cross-compilation, but there is no debugger
Type of application
- standalone application (most of participants likes this one) - thin client (a web-based solution) - strong client (standalone application or a combination)
Data
Data sources localization we want to support:
- local
- remote
Main data types we want to support:
- vector
- raster
Various data sources and formats possible to use:
- vectors:
- local files (ie. shapefiles, mapinfo)
- GML and WFS
- database (ie. SQLite)
- rasters:
- tile server for rasters
- WMS
Available libraries to access and operate spatial data:
What GIS components we have ready to use?
- Windows Mobile
- OGR
- PROJ.4 and PROJ.4 port for Windows CE
- SQLite
- Linux
- most of currently available portable libraries are runnable on Linux on mobiles
GPS
All Mobile GIS BOF participants agree that we need a GPS support.
Windows Mobile
- GPS API and GPS Intermediate Driver (GPSID) - see short overview
- gpsd does not officially run on Windows-based systems, what about porting it?
- There is always an option to develop our own portable library for reading and parsing NMEA sentences
from serial/... port in a separate thread (no TCP/IP server/listener required)
Linux
- gpsd works very well on Linux