QGIS Mobile

Marco Bernasocchi

Abstract

The idea is to Port QGIS to Android and improve the GUI for using it on a Tablet PC. Qt, the base library of QGIS has already been ported to Android recently under the name Necessitas.

Additional Information

Idea:

Ubiquity of mobile devices makes the use of such objects a day to day business for many

professionals nowadays. When working on field data capture or management, the use of bulky

hardware is very uncomfortable and unproductive and thus the merging of top notch software

such as Qgis and mobile devices would greatly improve the productivity of many users and

thus the appreciation of QGis as THE Gis software of choice.

Goal:

The idea is to Port QGIS to Android and improve the GUI for using it on a Tablet PC. Qt, the

base library of QGIS has already been ported to Android recently under the name Necessitas.

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