[Gvsig_english] Gvsig mini - hi all! contributions / planned features

[simon thepot]

Hi,
thanks a lot for your quick and accurate answer.

Offline POI management is a great feature :) What do you put under the
"management" word ?

The application i'm currenlty developping is supposed to offer an enhanced
(interactive) experience when visiting a famous place (Castle, museum,
etc.).
A visit is composed of an offline (for autonomy sake) map, POIs and media.
When the visitor moves into some area (GPS located), actions are triggered :
phone vibrating, sounds playing, media (text/photos/videos) are suggested.
The map displays those media and the POIs he already visited ; the nearest
POI etc.

The goal is to provide great immersion when visiting a place.
If you have any idea of any kind (how to realize some point using you
application, interesting features, etc.), you are more than welcome :)

I am currently refactoring out large pieces of code (just moving stuff
around - to limit class size -, adding factories and so on).
It would be great if my patch were to be discussed and some move upsteam,
otherwise It may be  impossible for me to maintain it.
I would be glad to help building your app  as I will certainly still use it
in the future.

Submitting my work by patch seems a bit tedious. How could we improve this ?
Maybe a repo on github where we may comments the code etc. ?


By the way, I'm not an expert at GIS technology (trying to learn hard ! :) )
but I should be able to program as it's my job :)

Regards,
Simon

2011/1/27 Alberto Romeu <aromeu at prodevelop.es>

>  El 27/01/11 14:43, simon thepot escribió:
>
> Hi,
> I just began to develop my own application and chose gvSIG mini as it seems
> robust and promising ; thanks for developping this great application.
>
> Yet, after having spent several days in the code, I think some refactor may
> be made (as mentionned in the header's comment in the activity/map.java
> file).
>
> - Are you planning to refactor in the month to come ? (I have to build a
> first version of my software in this delay)
> - Is there a way to contribute to gvSIG mini and possibly see some patch
> merged upstream ?
> (Troll question: are you planning to move to git ;))
>
>
> Otherwise:
> - Do you plan to integrate vector feature import ? (GML etc. ?)
> - Is there an explanation for not using thrid party lib like the Geotools
> lib for Java ? (eg: for handling projection, geometry etc.)
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Cheers,
>
> Simon Thépot aka djcoin
>
>
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>  Hi Simon,
>
> 1. I do think some refactor is needed... we are currently in the process of
> releasing a version with offline POI management, so no big refactor is going
> to be done.
>
> 2. If you have some patch or bug fix you can e-mail them to me and I will
> merge them into the trunk for the next version. If you plan to contribute
> frequently we can give you write permissions to the SVN (we not plan to move
> to git :P).
>
> 3. Regarding vector data I've done some tests (in my spare time) on using
> the gvSIG-GPE library to parse some vector formats (GML, KML, GPX...). It
> would be a nice feature but I guess we would need some collaboration as we
> have limited resources.
>
> 4. gvSIG Mini was developed at the beginning for Java capable phones (MIDP
> 2.0 / CLDC), so we couldn't use any third party library as most of them were
> not compatible with J2ME. When we decided port gvSIG Mini to Android we took
> some compatible code from the Java phone's version, so, is because of that
> we have our own geometries and projection model.
>
> Can I ask you what is your application about?
>
> Regards,
>
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>
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