Re: Goal for GNOME Mobile?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 11:09 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008, Stormy Peters wrote:
> > Could we make GNOME Mobile a complete solution like Android? A set of
> > software and a spec that hardware vendors could write to and ISVs could
> > develop on top of?
> 
>  If you're asking whether such a solution would be useful and deserves
>  being made, I think so; if you're asking whether we have the resources
>  do to so, I don't know.
> 
>  We certainly lack new applications:
>    * mapping software (GPS assisted or not!)
>
what do you refer to on this? There are indeed nice GNOME apps for
mapping from the openstreetmap project. The best example is Viking
(http://viking.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page)

Also, mapper, from nokia for the N7/800 series, is a nice app for those
mobile devices
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>