Thank you so much . . . This is like a holy grail for people like me who cannot get their hands on gps devices
On 5/20/10, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > Came across this awesome java mobile app GPSMid [1] after planemad tweeted > about it. This app can take OSM data and hold it in the form of midlet and > provide routing. It can position using Cell ID. So positioning / navigation > on any phone which has j2me support / some memory without GPS / GPRS. > > For folks with GPRS, it can also live edit OSM which i think will be of > immense use to us to quickly add a POI / name an unnamed street. One needs > to create the midlet for the area they are interested from planet.osm file / > XAPI requests using osm2gpsmid [2] (fairly simple) and install them on the > mobile to start mapping on their mobiles. (I thought it was only possible by > the folks with iPhone and mapzen, but now poorer folks too can :) ) > > [1] http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net > [2] http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/osmtogpsmid.html > -- > Regards > Srikanth.L > http://j.mp/SrikanthL > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ Talk-in mailing list Talk-in@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in
