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UNOFFICIAL VERSION OF GVSIG MOBILE FOR OPENMOKO AND NOKIA-MAEMO
Send your bug reports, issues, suggestions, comments and feature requests to Juan Lucas or Joseph.
Hi,
first of all thanks for bringing us such great application. I’m trying it with the shapefiles of Italian archaeologic sites for University of Bari (Italy, Apulia).
Now, where can I paste the shapefile to make GvSig Mobile able to read it? Where are .shp stored?
Thanks again
Francesco
Hello, Franceso.
Any of the two “…” buttons in the layers tab should show a file browser to let you choose a *.shp file, so you should be able to reach ir wherever it is in the phone’s file system. The file chooser starts at “/”, so click on “/” to enter subfolders. You need to copy the SHP, SHX and DBF files to your phone (i always use a ssh session) and then choose the SHP file. Then you have to select the check box to the left to make that shapefile visible. As I said, try not to load very large shapefiles, because the eprformance is not very good in this first version. I hope I can improve it.
Regards, Juan Lucas
Hi,
first -thank you for your great application! I especially like the possibility to use wms servers. Are you planning to add geotiff support in the future? Or possibility to cache wms tiles from given location?
Regards, Tom
Hello, Tom. Thanks for your message.
In my experience, handheld devices (pocket pcs, smartphones and such) are too slow to deal with large raster files, except for the super-fast formats ECW and JP2000, and in those cases you still need a compiled librery (dll or so), which I curretly do not have for ARM-Linux, so it would only be possible to open a Geotiff image if it’s a small one (and I should find the code to open it somewhere).
An alternative to this would consist in using Gdal2tile (I think tyhat’s its name) to create a number a levels with tiles like the ones I’m using for web map servers.
What do you mean by “a given location”? You mean those tiles would be copied to the sd card from another source and the app should use them? Yes, that’s also a possibility.
Regards,
Juan Lucas
Hi Juan,
thanks for the answer. Yes, I meant coping tiles from WMS server and storing it on the SD card. That would be handy in the field.
But… I don’t have a clue how to do this ;-)
Thanks for your help!
Tom