And in addition the UK has the advantage of the openstreetmap and
openpostcode project, so that goes a long way to providing the data to
get me started :-)
I'll post a fuller description and put the desktop app up on ....
wherever stacks got these days ... soon.
-- Alex.
On 09/04/2017 09:34, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
I’d love it if this topic could stay on the list for a bit, as I’m just getting
involved in reconstructing an existing desktop Geographical Information System
which has been very successfully sold to UK schoolchildren, who use it to
understand maps and map symbols based on their own locality; but it very much
overdue to be re-designed and implemented for mobile devices - mostly tablets.
The use of GPS to explore and record a locality is clearly a very powerful and
necessary addition to the program. As it’s the UK, even Alex’s interest in
postcodes is highly relevant to me (to those outside the UK, and individual UK
postcode identifies a very small area - normally seen as a postman’s walk. This
is different from other countries like France where postcodes are wide-ranging
and therefore less useful for apps like this.)
Thanks
Graham
On 9 Apr 2017, at 03:40, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
If you go for Android it is trivial to build and distribute. There are no
restrictions, you can email the app or supply a web download link, or put it on
a public server. Apple is more restrictive, so you'd need to get the UUIDs of
everyone who will use the device, or else pay for an Enterprise license, or
else put it in the App Store.
If you want to create the stack I'd be happy to build it in Android for you,
and show you how to do it yourself if you like. It isn't difficult.
On 4/8/17 7:58 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
It would be the most trivial app to write in LC
- ask the postcode
- download the list of addresses in that postcode, and put it into a
selection control
- have a button that takes current location and stores it for the
selected address
[walk along the road, selecting and clicking as I pass each house :-) ]
- upload the completed file of locations + addresses
BUT - I would need to figure out how to build an iOS and/or Android app,
and how to release it or get it on to the phones of my volunteers, which
seems to be so troublesome I'd rather avoid it :-)
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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