OT (?): Bookmarking GPS coords

[Alex Tweedly]

Thanks Jacque, that's a very generous offer. It sounds like I should try 
again for Android (I did try Android once before, with some success; but 
the only Android device I had was a Kindle Fire, which adds its own 
complexities, so that mini project just kind of withered :-)

I'll investigate it some more, and scream for help if I need it.

Basically it's :
  - for the village I live in, and surrounding areas
  - majority of the houses have *only* a name - no number, no 
street/road, just a name ...
What I'm doing is in 3 parts :
  - really simple web page to search based on partial house/street 
names  (trivial)
  - desktop/laptop app to display a map and allow volunteer/user to 
position a marker "at" the house
  - tablet/phone app to allow a volunteer to walk/cycle around and click 
when outside each named house

First two parts are done - except for tidying up; I'll finish them off 
sometime over the next week or two (school holidays, so we hobbyists 
have limited in to play on our computers :-) and post or upload them. 
And I'll give the mobile app a try as well - may be an excuse to buy a 
new gadget/phone :-)

-- Alex.

On 09/04/2017 02:40, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode 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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