Capable of moving or being moved readily.
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Are there any Indoor GIS platforms?
What sort of infrastructure is needed to allow me to write a simple mobile app for indoor navigation?
Professor Mike Goodchild said:
the average American only spends 13
percent of the time ...
13
votes
1answer
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Trilateration algorithm for n amount of points
I need to find algorithm that can calculate centroid A (aka gravity center, geometric center, center of mass) from the figure where circles T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,..,Tn intersect
AND length of line R from ...
11
votes
7answers
552 views
Mobile Data collection options
What COTS software is available to do mobile data collection, with GPS positioning. Map display not required. I'm looking across the board (platform wise).
I'm already aware of...
ArcPad
ArcGIS ...
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votes
3answers
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Does a national(USA) interstate rest stop/rest area dataset exist?
And I don't care about format--worry about that later! I found some maps in Google maps, usually per state. I also have one map made my someone else, that no longer appears in the Google Maps search ...
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votes
3answers
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How to find a point half way between two other points?
I'm working on implementing the OSM Mobile Binary format for map data, and because it uses a 16 bit delta for each point along a way, it cannot represent a way if there is a large distance between two ...
4
votes
3answers
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Mobile, Offline viewer for geographic data
Currently, field crews consumer geographic data via laptop (no internet, no gps). ArcReader.
I would like to get them shapefiles (or some derivative of a shapefile) on a mobile platform (smartphone) ...
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2answers
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Best GIS system for high performance web application - PostGIS vs MongoDB
I am working on a web/mobile application based on location data. Since i am already familiar with MongoDB, i found the geospatial indexing of mongo is quite suitable for my needs. As i am mainly ...
12
votes
8answers
774 views
Is there a smartphone app for mobile asset logging?
I'm after a recommendation for a smartphone app (iPhone or Android) to log asset information for litter bins. I need the following features
GPS
geotagged photos
Form with drop down menus for user ...
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votes
3answers
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Mobile offline mapping and editing of shapefiles
I've got a client that wants to create a mobile app that can view and edit shapefiles stored locally on the device to enable it to work offline. There is a possibility of converting the shapefiles to ...
4
votes
1answer
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How to serve local maps for an offline HTML5 webmapping app?
How could one serve maps (tiles in wherever format possible) within a Android device to be consumed by an offline webmapping app also accessed within the device's browser?
7
votes
2answers
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How do I use HTML5 Storage to cache mapservice data?
I would like to develop a web app that runs on any device (including iPad and iPhone) in a disconnected mode. It is OK if the user is required to browse around and download mapservice data to a local ...
1
vote
2answers
103 views
Publishing Maps to Mobile Devices and the Web
I have a bunch of agricultural information stored in a local postgis database. We use qgis to manipulate/analyze this information and to print output.
I would like to publish this information (both ...
3
votes
2answers
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Will mousedown events fire with Touch events on OpenLayers mobile?
I can't get the mousedown event to fire on a mobile device when I click on a marker. I'm using openlayers 2.11 with TouchNavigation. The mousedown event fires just fine in Chrome on my Desktop. Are ...
2
votes
2answers
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Zoom to see entire MapLayer in Bing Maps
If I have a MapLayer that I'm applying to Bing Maps where I have a list of coordinates, how can I zoom to see the full MapLayer (dynamically zoom to the proper size) and toggle between seeing the ...
