Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-23 Thread Zsombor Szabó
Steve, OpenMaps for iOS has already some great tag editing and node creating features, but, as hinted in some of our support responses to our users, we are working on a full-featured OSM editor. I can't tell a deadline yet when it will be available, but soon. The best part: it will be free. Best

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-23 Thread Nick Black
How many of your users adopted the editing functionality? On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Zsombor Szabó zsom...@gmail.com wrote: Steve, OpenMaps for iOS has already some great tag editing and node creating features, but, as hinted in some of our support responses to our users, we are

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-23 Thread SteveC
awesome :-) Am Aug 23, 2010 um 12:36 AM schrieb Zsombor Szabó: Steve, OpenMaps for iOS has already some great tag editing and node creating features, but, as hinted in some of our support responses to our users, we are working on a full-featured OSM editor. I can't tell a deadline yet

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-23 Thread Zsombor Szabó
Nick, at the moment we have a rough total of 450 monthly active editors (OpenMaps iPhone+OpenMaps iOS): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editor_usage_stats Our internal analytics report between July 23 and August 22 2010 (users can opt-out from this): - 11,086 impressions (iphone user looked

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-23 Thread Zsombor Szabó
Jeffrey, we are not yet at the beta testing stage, but will send an email to this list when we are ready to accept beta testers. Hope to hear from you then. -- Zsombor On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 19:39, Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com wrote: Any chance I can beta test? I can send my UDID if

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Martijn van Exel
I concur. A huge opportunity for attracting casual mappers if done right. KISS my OSM or something. Simplicity is the key. Integrated account creation, oauth, abstraction from the map features complexity. No mobile JOSM (in spite of its infinite awesomeness - but think fitness for purpose). I

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Dave F.
On 21/08/2010 12:51, Martijn van Exel wrote: I concur. A huge opportunity for attracting casual mappers if done right. KISS my OSM or something. Simplicity is the key. Integrated account creation, oauth, abstraction from the map features complexity. No mobile JOSM (in spite of its infinite

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Nick Black
I would love to have an iPad app to map with. I've actually just come back from a Mapzen POI Collector mapping trip around a town that could have really used an iPad to add some roads and other features. But from CloudMade (or Mapquest's) perspective its tough to justify the cost of developing

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Dave F. wrote: Aren't Android devices out selling iThingys? Currently there are more iThings in the market compared to android devices. But the growth of Android is much (!) stronger than the increase of iThings = it's just a matter of (few) time until there are more Android devices in the

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Nick Black nickbla...@gmail.com wrote: A possible answer is HTML5 apps - that's what we're looking into at CloudMade at the moment. An HTML5 POI collector, for example would let users on iPhone, Android and iPad and other tablets join in the party. (There are now 8M android phones in the

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Nick Black nickbla...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to have an iPad app to map with.  I've actually just come back from a Mapzen POI Collector mapping trip around a town that could have really used an iPad to add some roads and other features.  But from

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread bernhard zwischenbrugger
Am 20.08.10 21:17, schrieb John Smith: On 21 August 2010 05:12, bernhard zwischenbruggerb...@datenkueche.com wrote: But editing with a touchscreen is not easy. How to set a point using a finger? If you put the finger to the screen, you don't see where the point is set. The finger covers

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread SteveC
The problem with a remote app is that connectivity will really, really suck while you're out wandering around with an ipad. You'll be hopping cell towers, going on to broken wifi networks and half the time things will be very slow or timeout. It strikes me it'll be easier to handle all that in

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Nick Black
Wow, that's pretty cool. What are your development plans? On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:09 PM, bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote: Am 20.08.10 21:17, schrieb John Smith: On 21 August 2010 05:12, bernhard zwischenbruggerb...@datenkueche.com  wrote: But editing with a

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 21 August 2010, SteveC wrote: The problem with a remote app is that connectivity will really, really suck while you're out wandering around with an ipad. You'll be hopping cell towers, going on to broken wifi networks and half the time things will be very slow or timeout. It

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread Toby Murray
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote: The userinterface for Android and iPad/iPhone can't be the same. Android does not support multitouch. My Samsung Galaxy S strongly disagrees with this statement :) Some early android devices didn't do

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-21 Thread bernhard zwischenbrugger
Am 21.08.10 19:01, schrieb Toby Murray: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote: The userinterface for Android and iPad/iPhone can't be the same. Android does not support multitouch. My Samsung Galaxy S strongly disagrees with this

[OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread SteveC
I keep thinking an editing app for the 3G / wifi iPad would be awesome. It's always on the network, GPS and compass are built in. It would be a sweet surveying device, but would have to be super fault tolerant in doing things like waiting for the network. Steve stevecoast.com

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread Graham Jones
Maybe a neater alternative would be to make Potlatch respond to touch screen events and access the location - then it will work when linux based clones of the ipad appear too? It should be possible to grab the touch screen events (you can in javascript anyway) - not sure if there are issues with

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread Andrew Ayre
Sadly flash won't work on the iPad. So it would likely to have to be an iPad specific app in Objective-C (shudder). And then a Flash version for all the other platforms. Andy Graham Jones wrote: Maybe a neater alternative would be to make Potlatch respond to touch screen events and access the

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread bernhard zwischenbrugger
hi I keep thinking an editing app for the 3G / wifi iPad would be awesome. It's always on the network, GPS and compass are built in. It would be a sweet surveying device, but would have to be super fault tolerant in doing things like waiting for the network. Collecting gpx files would

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread John Smith
On 21 August 2010 05:12, bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote: But editing with a touchscreen is not easy. How to set a point using a finger? If you put the finger to the screen, you don't see where the point is set. The finger covers the point and it can't be exact. Any idea

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote: But editing with a touchscreen is not easy. How to set a point using a finger? If you put the finger to the screen, you don't see where the point is set. The finger covers the point and it can't be exact.

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread Peter Wendorff
On 20.08.2010 21:12, bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote: [...] But editing with a touchscreen is not easy. How to set a point using a finger? If you put the finger to the screen, you don't see where the point is set. The finger covers the point and it can't be exact. Any idea how to solve this

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 20 August 2010 23:24, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de wrote:  On 20.08.2010 21:12, bernhard zwischenbrugger wrote: [...] But editing with a touchscreen is not easy. How to set a point using a finger? If you put the finger to the screen, you don't see where the point is set. The

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread John Harvey
I use Mapzen POI Collector on my iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/mapzen-poi-collector/id338079717?mt=8 It's made by the CloudMade guys: http://mapzen.cloudmade.com/mapzen-poi-collector It isn't perfect (you can't add roads or areas and can't modify all nodes), but it scratches my

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread Joseph Reeves
Any idea how to solve this problem? Put a touchpad on the back of the tablet: http://www.notionink.in/ I'm also told that Notion Ink will consider giving you a free Adam if you develop an app that needs testing on it. Android phones also outsell Apple powered handhelds at the moment; if tablets

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread Ben Last
Or HTML5, which is a viable option on the iPad. The bigger issue might be with some of the hardwired limits on the size of all images used (our guys working on the iPad testing of the NearMap site have been coming up against this). Cheers b On Saturday, August 21, 2010, Andrew Ayre

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Scott
On Saturday 21 August 2010, Ben Last wrote: Or HTML5, which is a viable option on the iPad. The bigger issue might be with some of the hardwired limits on the size of all images used (our guys working on the iPad testing of the NearMap site have been coming up against this). Cheers With

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

2010-08-20 Thread David Fawcett
The Mapzen iPhone app does a pretty good job of it. When you start to set a point, a pin marker appears. On Aug 20, 2010, at 2:12 PM, bernhard zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote: hi I keep thinking an editing app for the 3G / wifi iPad would be awesome. It's always on the