I just got the new Android based mobile phone HTC Magic . It is a really cool piece of technology; what a change compared to my previous phone, a Palm Treo 650! I actually wasn’t expecting that much from Android phones. One of the best surprise for the moment is DroidCollector , a cool application that helps you a lot for OSM surveying . You can easily record GPS tracks set the mapfeatures live with just a click, record voice annotation, etc … A quite youg application, but already very useful, even if a few improvements in ergonomy would help (and too bad it’s just free but not Open Source). The HTC is maybe not as fast and not as sensitive as a plain GPS device, but you always have on you and in just one click you start a track acquisition. There is also a forum thread on OpenStreetMap. Good surveying!
Tags: Android, OpenStreetMap