OT (?): Bookmarking GPS coords

[JOHN PATTEN]

This sound interesting, I'd be interested in learning more too.

Thank you
John Patten
SUSD

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> On Apr 9, 2017, at 1:34 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> 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 at 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 :-)
>> 
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