Some history
Some years ago I got myself a Nokia E90 and it had a build-in GPS receiver, great!
I had some ideas about using it for traking when i was out in the countryside on my bike, or sailing my kayak, I even had been playing with the idea of using it for making maps (some years before I had mapped the coastline of an small island where the family has a vacation home, on an old Garmin, but never got any further).
So I had this greate phone, but lacked some tools to do the tracking.
After some surfing on the net, I found a tool called bbtracker, it was for an BlackBerry, but was programmed in JavaME, and could run on the E90 without too many problems.
I also found something called OpenStreetMap, just the project I had been thinking about for many years, so I was hooked!
Over the time I became aware of some shortcommings in bbtracker. Fortunatly bbtracker is opensource, so I downloaded the source and made some changes, and have been using this version ever since.
Lately I got a new phone, an Nokia N900, and it does not run JavaME programs, so I decided to make my own tracking program.
So what is it?
Well over the time I have found, that while mapping, the track are not everything, you have to take a lot of notes such as street name, surface conditions, pedestrian crossings, post boxes etc.
Why not make these notes directly on the phone?
This is OSMapper :
A very simple tracking tool for OpenStreetMap surveyors using the Nokia N900, it doesn't show any maps or even your track, it just tracks where you are going, and stores it.
But it also allows you to define some buttons for the most used waypoints, so you just have to press the "Bus stop" button to register the location of a bus stop, and to make ad hoc notations for not-so-often used waypoints, street names or whatever.
When you are done mapping, everything is exported to an .GPX file, ready to be imported into OpenStreetMap.
Users manual for version 1.3.
When you start OSMapper you will get a screen somewhat like this.
Known problems
Until now there are one known problem
Some years ago I got myself a Nokia E90 and it had a build-in GPS receiver, great!
I had some ideas about using it for traking when i was out in the countryside on my bike, or sailing my kayak, I even had been playing with the idea of using it for making maps (some years before I had mapped the coastline of an small island where the family has a vacation home, on an old Garmin, but never got any further).
So I had this greate phone, but lacked some tools to do the tracking.
After some surfing on the net, I found a tool called bbtracker, it was for an BlackBerry, but was programmed in JavaME, and could run on the E90 without too many problems.
I also found something called OpenStreetMap, just the project I had been thinking about for many years, so I was hooked!
Over the time I became aware of some shortcommings in bbtracker. Fortunatly bbtracker is opensource, so I downloaded the source and made some changes, and have been using this version ever since.
Lately I got a new phone, an Nokia N900, and it does not run JavaME programs, so I decided to make my own tracking program.
So what is it?
Well over the time I have found, that while mapping, the track are not everything, you have to take a lot of notes such as street name, surface conditions, pedestrian crossings, post boxes etc.
Why not make these notes directly on the phone?
This is OSMapper :
A very simple tracking tool for OpenStreetMap surveyors using the Nokia N900, it doesn't show any maps or even your track, it just tracks where you are going, and stores it.
But it also allows you to define some buttons for the most used waypoints, so you just have to press the "Bus stop" button to register the location of a bus stop, and to make ad hoc notations for not-so-often used waypoints, street names or whatever.
When you are done mapping, everything is exported to an .GPX file, ready to be imported into OpenStreetMap.
Users manual for version 1.3.
When you start OSMapper you will get a screen somewhat like this.
Known problems
Until now there are one known problem
- If you take a look at the Save file dialog under Stop mapping,
you'll see some wierd characters after the text GPX in the type
selector, this is a known problem in QT 4.6 for Maemo and has been
solved in version 4.7, so it should be solved when QT 4.7 is released.
You can see more here : http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-11300