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rufuspollock-okfn / opd-product-browser-android

Android application for the Open Product Data project
MIT License
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Offline lookup option #8

Closed teolemon closed 11 years ago

PhilippePlagnol commented 11 years ago

Very good point : "what id the supermarket doesn't allow internet connection,..." the fact to store the database in the phone is not possible because of the volume so it's more a big battle to ask supermarkets to let consumer to have access to internet

teolemon commented 11 years ago

Do you have a sense on how large it would be with and without photos for a single country ? That's a problem also faced by OpenFoodFacts for both lookups and contributions (people need to be able to snap pictures to contribute and lookup nutrition data even in a degraded environnement)

PhilippePlagnol commented 11 years ago

picture are 150*150 and data are very big (4 Go ,...)

An POD is a DataWareHouse aiming to contain all existing gtin codes the notion of contry is only for registration (which GS1 gived the GCP to the manufaturer). A product can be sold in many countries,....

Open fact Food and all the smartphone app (listed here http://product.okfn.org/smartphone-apps/) has the same problem: a store can choose to cut all internet connection to avoid that consumers get other information than what they provide,...

PhilippePlagnol commented 11 years ago

If you don't have your answer, please reopen it