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Comment on Rayner Howard, GISP by raynerhoward

raynerhoward — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:00:10 +0000

Hello Marco.

As you’ve read from my post, QGIS for Android on an HP Touchpad works great (running CM9 Alpha 2 build). The lastest qgis-nightly-armeabi.apk (March 28) is surprisingly fast and stable. You’ve obviously done an excellent job porting it to Android. The only reason I don’t use it on a day-to-day basis is due to the attribute table. It does not size correctly to the Touchpad’s 1024 x 768 screen. The Close button is off the screen and unreachable. The only way to get out of this window is to kill the app. Also, the table itself is pretty much unreadable. I’ve attached some screenshots to my original post. You can see for yourself what the attribute table looks like.

Best Regards

Comment on Rayner Howard, GISP by plan de situatie

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Comment on Rayner Howard, GISP by Marco

Marco — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:36:18 +0000

Hi, I’m the developer of QGIS for Android, I just found your post on it and was wondering if you had more feedback.
You’ll find a lot of news on opengis.ch

ciao
- Marco Bernasocchi

Comment on QGIS for Android on HP Touchpad – Touch GIS on a Budget by Greg R Perry

Greg R Perry — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:04:49 +0000

I was so excited to see this post! Putting QGIS has been my dream since I got my 32GB firesale Touchpad. I figured that I was going to have to install Ubuntu, which really made me drag my feet – I’ve been a Fedora user since it was Red Hat, and yes, long before I started trying GIS. Despite my fear of the Google overlords, this looked easy enough to try. I still working on getting this up and running with installing any Google aps, particularly Google Play. I downloaded Ministro II directly from SourceForge and right now it’s chugging away installing QT. I guess the main appeal to me of the QGIS for Android is that it’s coded for an ARM processor and a touchscreen interface.

I am a field engineer, and putting in locations onsite using QGIS is my goal. I don’t know whether using high resolution aerial photography will be enough, but I’ll also be trying to Bluetooth my Garmin Oregon 450t to the Touchpad. I’ll let you know how it goes!

Comment on QGIS for Android on HP Touchpad – Touch GIS on a Budget by raynerhoward

raynerhoward — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:58:20 +0000

Johnny,
I was going to get a 32GB Motorola Xoom last year for $500 until I caught wind of the HP Touchpad fire sale. Really I just wanted a tablet that I could use to check mail, read some PDF files and browse the web from the couch. If I can save $350 on the deal, then why not. I only discovered QGIS for Android a couple months ago and was able to get it to work on my Touchpad just yesterday (after trying a few different nightly builds a few weeks apart). Figured this would be a great way for a field crew or inspector to access information while in the field, so I decided to play around with it. Field maps can only go so far in certain situations, and who wants to carry a laptop around everywhere they go.
Unfortunately GPS functionality leaves something to be desired in QGIS for Android. I don’t really have first-hand experience with this, but my colleague has been trying to get it working on his Motorola XY Board with limited success. It doesn’t let you project your live GPS position or track into another coordinate system. Haven’t yet tried to project the GIS data layers to WGS84 to see if that helps or not, mostly because I just can’t stand the way the data looks all stretched out. It hurts to look at it. I’ll keep playing with it though and let you know what I find. Look for a Part 2 to this blog post in the coming weeks.

Cheers!

Comment on QGIS for Android on HP Touchpad – Touch GIS on a Budget by Johnny Diellas

Johnny Diellas — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:19:14 +0000

I agree that using an alpha app on an alpha OS device is quite strange and cannot lead to safe conclusions, since one will always try to excuse any problems because of this. My first question is why didn’t you try QGIS for Android on a “pure” android tablet?
My second question, based on your experience so far, is whether you had proper GPS functionality working on QGIS.

Comment on Find interesting places to visit using Google Earth & Flickr by E. Kovacs

E. Kovacs — Mon, 23 May 2011 03:55:57 +0000

Wow, not only interesting, but quite informative…Eye view interchange through global GIS! Keep it going!