> I'm particularly interested in the USSD functions, I've not really heard > about them before, I may wander over to the OpenMoko mailing lists, and see > if they know any thing about it :) Afaik, USSD channels are controlled by the mobile operator. I believe all devices support USSD but you'll need the operator's approval/agreement to deploy any application over these channels.
> I would not preclude payed for work to be honest. There's actually already been an ongoing attempt to citizen mapping, paying citizens to add missing POIs on a map. See http://www.gisdevelopment.net/news/viewn.asp?id=GIS:N_zqjpnrxcah Full disclosure: I am exploring the gaming aspect of such an application. In this case, the reward would not be a payment but climbing up the high score board instead. We might be able to get a lot of information out of ordinary users, who are not necessarily GIS experts, through having them play a game on their mobile phones. These include for example the location of new POIs, filling in missing street names or simply verifying the correctness of the current database content. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
