projects/osm-mobile.mdwn

   1 [[!meta title="Feature list for an OpenStreetMap editor for mobile devices"]]
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   3 [JOSM](http://josm.openstreetmap.org) and [Merkaartor](http://merkaartor.be/)
   4 are really nice programs for editing OpenStreetMap data on the desktop, and
   5 [OSMTracker](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMtracker) is acceptable for
   6 Windows Mobile devices. However, OSMTracker is very inflexible when it comes
   7 to tagging abilities. So a perfect mobile application would combine the best
   8 of both worlds:
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  10   * displaying the raw XML data, maybe in real-time via mobile internet
  11     connection
  12   * displaying the rendered map
  13   * recording a GPX track
  14   * take pictures if the mobile device features a camera
  15   * serve as a voice recorder
  16   * adding and tagging nodes, ways, and maybe relations in a key=value manner
  17     * maybe allow presets for different objects, like JOSM has. These could be
  18       implemented like the customizable buttons in OSMTracker.
  19     * auto-completion for keys and values would be great for people like me
  20       who cannot remember actual tag names...
  21     * The absolute killer feature would be the ability to automatically import
  22       the changed data into desktop software like JOSM/Merkaartor, and export
  23       diffs.