mixvt
28th May 2008, 15:38
Your going traveling to a new place, so you want up-to-date maps, and you want to read about what other people think about the places you might visit. You want to record and share your experiences, with both other mobile phone users and your friends back home.
Current features:-
* Tracks your current location by talking to bluetooth GPS device. Or in-built gps inside the phone (S60 3rd edition requires open signed online or developer certificate signing)
* Downloads map data from OpenStreetMap ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) (OSM)
* Clickable ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) map to download tiles to PC for bluetoothing to phone (v0.09 onwards has recogniser support - 3rd Edition phones require open online signing of lzmaobfrec or online signing of the signable sis files)
* Records trails to gpx files
* Allows annotations to be noted and and uploaded as either blog posts, map corrections or postcodes
* Displays a direction pointer from the center of the map view to your selected destination
* Monitors GSM Cell id's (S60/UIQ only - 3rd edition requires signing)
* Downloads postcodes from Free The Postcode ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
Note: Downloading maps/postcodes costs (depending on your tariff), you should download a small part of the map maybe at zoom 100m, and see how much it cost you, the v0.09 release encapsulates the binary protocol inside LZMA (7zip) to reduce the cost, other ideas include (downloading updates only, simplifying the map, etc). Also you should note that at present the FTPC download downloads the entire list (about 70k at present), only do this if you really want postcodes.
Current features:-
* Tracks your current location by talking to bluetooth GPS device. Or in-built gps inside the phone (S60 3rd edition requires open signed online or developer certificate signing)
* Downloads map data from OpenStreetMap ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) (OSM)
* Clickable ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) map to download tiles to PC for bluetoothing to phone (v0.09 onwards has recogniser support - 3rd Edition phones require open online signing of lzmaobfrec or online signing of the signable sis files)
* Records trails to gpx files
* Allows annotations to be noted and and uploaded as either blog posts, map corrections or postcodes
* Displays a direction pointer from the center of the map view to your selected destination
* Monitors GSM Cell id's (S60/UIQ only - 3rd edition requires signing)
* Downloads postcodes from Free The Postcode ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
Note: Downloading maps/postcodes costs (depending on your tariff), you should download a small part of the map maybe at zoom 100m, and see how much it cost you, the v0.09 release encapsulates the binary protocol inside LZMA (7zip) to reduce the cost, other ideas include (downloading updates only, simplifying the map, etc). Also you should note that at present the FTPC download downloads the entire list (about 70k at present), only do this if you really want postcodes.