We have great news to announce! Yesterday evening Peer GmbH and R3 GIS GmbH from Merano chose to join their efforts to help mixare grow at even a faster pace.
The expertise of R3 GIS about Geographic Information Systems, Digital Terrain Models, and GPS knowledge is a perfect fit for the User Experience knowledge of Peer internet solutions.
The companies agreed on a concrete roadmap for the next few months, that is listed below:
bugfixes
- download retries
- GPS fix
- various Nullpointer exceptions fixes
Improvements
- Compass precision: investigation of possible corrections / datasources
- Compass correction by the means of accelerometer readings?
- GPS precision (altitude): investigation of possible corrections / datasources
- GPS precision (overall): integration of DGPS services? WAAS? Other possible services
- Integration with high precision DTM (Digital Terrain Model) and visibility analysis
- Marker display enhancements related to precision and distance
- Additional handling of polylines and polygons
- Additional standardized data-format support (XML based)
- User Interface enhancements: menu support, better feedback to the user
- Warnings in case of issues with data reliability (magnetic field distortions, old/wrong GPS fix). Maybe a diagnostic mode for advanced users?
- Social network integration: twitter with support for login, timeline, lists, search. Maybe send geotagged tweets?
- Support for local data sources (not in terms of URI, but rather collection of POIs)
R3 GIS GmbH and Peer GmbH are committed to open source. The project keeps its GPLv3 license, all code contributions will be put in the public repository and the discussion will happen in the public development mailing list, so that everyone is able to chime in and participate.
We are thrilled to see the mixare community grow, and that companies with great expertise join the project!
