[Mobile GIS] GIS on mobile devices

[Bob Basques]

All,

I'm wondering about this whole Mobile application thing from a bigger 
picture, point of view.

Specifically, I'm wondering about whether the effort should be simply 
put into a generic installation that works on a LAPTOP install with no 
dependencies on any specific Mobile OS, and port to these kinds of 
things after the fact.

Main reason of suggesting this is that the Micro PC market is really 
starting to take off again it seems, and there will be PDA sized full 
fledged PC OS to work with.  It seems like the emphasis in the near 
future, will be to apply this mobile software to these type of devices.

Just some thoughts on this as I see the mail go by.

For reference:
http://umpc.com/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/default.mspx
        http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/hardware.mspx
And, what started it all . . . .
http://www.oqo.com/

bobb



Brent Fraser wrote:
> To all,
>
>   I enjoyed the FOSS4GEO BOF Mobile session, especially hearing the various
> use-cases (and the meeting notes are great!)
>
>    On a related note, I need to get started on investigation into porting a
> command-line serial GPS communication application to an iPaq running Windows
> Mobile 5.0.  While I'm doing that I thought I would get some discussion
> started on directions for an Open Source Mobile GIS, specifically:
>
>     Language: C/C++ (my preference), or Java?
>     GUI: wxWidgets? (my preference), QT?, (or whatever is in J2ME)?
>
>
> My Desired Mobile GIS Application:
> ----------------------------------------------------
>         - O/S: Windows Mobile 5.0 (preferred), and linux
>         - Source: C/C++ ((I prefer Frank Warmerdam's C-like C++)
>         - GUI lib: wxWidgets's wxEmbedded
>         - Graphics: displays (with pan, zoom) vector and raster maps
>         - Application: navigation, and GIS feature collection (a must-have)
>         - License: GPL
>
>
> And Some existing Open Source Apps:
> --------------------------------------
> GpsDrive        http://www.kraftvoll.at/software/
>         - O/S: linux, not Windows
>         - Source: C
>         - GUI lib: GTK+
>         - Graphics: displays maps (pan, zoom)
>         - Application: navigation, not GIS feature collection
>         - License: GPL
>
> RoadMap         http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net/
>         - O/S: linux, and prelim. Windows support
>         - Source: C
>         - GUI lib: GTK 1.2, GTK 2.0, or QT3
>         - Graphics: displays vector maps (pan, zoom)
>         - Application: navigation, not GIS feature collection
>         - License: GPL
>
> Navlet          http://www.navlet.org/
>         - O/S: not O/S-specific
>         - Source: Java (J2ME)
>         - GUI lib: Java
>         - Graphics: displays maps
>         - Application: navigation, not GIS feature collection
>         - License: GPL
>
> Comments are appreciated!
>
> Brent Fraser
> GeoAnalytic Inc.
> Calgary, Alberta
>
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