Hello all, I wanted to reach our and first say *thank you* for all the work done by the HOT team. I am one of those fans that lurks around and tells people about OSM, but usually stays away from the mailing lists.
Additionally, my team at AmigoCloud and myself have been doing a lot of work around mobile offline data collection. Personally, I have been writing code for this (proprietary) mobile offline data collection tool for about 5+ years. Although I believe the application would be extremely useful for doing offline data capture during disasters, the app is proprietary. A lot of the components that we use are from Open Source projects we contribute to, yet we still have components that are proprietary within our application. I want to change that. For the past few months, the team has been working to move proprietary components out and replacing them with Open Source equivalents. The goal is to create a mobile offline data collection library that can be used by others build offline data collection applications that are truly cross platform. It is our way to saying thank you to the different communities that have enabled us to build a business around them. The following video shows how the current incarnation of the proprietary application: http://bit.ly/amigomobile60s Features include: - Point/Line/Polygon/Multi* data collection - Works offline in vector and raster format - Tiles rendered from OSM data - WMS support - Automatically syncing of deltas - Automatic Syncing of forms - Automatic Syncing of styling - Automatic conflict reconciliation - Automatic online/offline detection - Elevation Support - 3D Visualization system with Native Platform that supports GPU rendering - Customizations of forms through HTML and JS - Cross platform (iOS / Android / Windows / Linux / OSX) - On device Vector based styling - ESRI Support (relationship classes, domains, etc) - GDAL support The goal has always been to reduce long workflows that are encountered by other projects/solutions. In my personal opinion, the time it takes to put data *into* the mobile device and to get it *out* and syncing with the rest of the data is usually unnecessarily long. Would there be any interest from anyone in this list to using/customizing this for a HOT use case? What would you like to see from a fully open source offline mobile data collection platform? Thank you again for all the great work both during and before/after disasters happen. - Ragi
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