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GvSIG Mobile

GvSIG is GIS application that is finding a lot of favour in OA offices (for those that want it, here's a Wikipedia guide to what GIS is), we plan to provide it to every member of field staff pre-installed on their FreeRunners.

Currently too much of our GIS output and data is at the mercy of ESRI; GIS can only be done on computers, not in the field; and the system really doesn't fit with my ideas concerning synchronous data movement from the data centre to the field and back.

There's a GvSIG mobile version that currently comes pre-packaged for Windows Mobile devices, but I was unable to get the java source working on the Openmoko platform (I know almost nothing about Java). Luckily for me the power of Open Source wins again and the people behind GvSIG recognised the potential of the software running on the FreeRunner.

Juan from Prodevelop has given me a lot of help testing various implementations of the existing java code, but it's still not quite ready yet. I am sending him one of the OA FreeRunners today so that development can continue more easily.

I'm expecting the results to be fantastic; this taster video shows what we may expect from an early release (ignore the Windows XP, just imagine that the window is a FreeRunner's screen):

Thanks again Juan!

Posted at 11:06AM Jun 25, 2008 by Joseph Reeves in OLPA  |  Comments[1]