Re: [OSM-talk] Recommendations for OSM mobile app?
It's probably because I somehow stumbled through the first 5 steps while discovering the possibilities of the app that I don't remember how complicated it was. Now I simply use step 6 to toggle between the views I use most often (additional GPX with the part of the walking network I already 'discovered'/Bing/Mapnik). I should figure out how I could add the hiking symbols from Lonvia someday... Still I think with all the other requirements you have, OsmAND is your best bet. Jo 2012/11/29 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com Hi Jo, Yeah, OsmAnd does everything - but it's pretty complicated. Switching between offline and online maps (a pretty basic task) is really hard (and very hard to remember). To go to online maps you seem to have to: 1) Menu | Settings | Offline data (Download) 2) Expand Offline maps (vector) 3) Hold down on each offline map until 'deactivate' appears, which you choose. 4) Back out to Settings, select Online maps 5) Select Online and tile maps To then choose which one actually shows: 6) Menu | Define view | Map source... 7) Pick one Hmm...written out it doesn't sound that bad, but it took quite a lot of fumbling around to get that far. (I guess the problem is the OsmAnd authors think of vector and tile maps as completely different functions, implemented completely differently, but for the user, they're just two variations on a theme.) Steve On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to tell you a few days ago that OsmAnd does all you want. Maybe write a small manual page for it, for the subset of features your users need. I didn't do it then, hoping somebody else would have a better suggestion. Polyglot 2012/11/24 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com Hi all, I'm looking for a recommendations of mobile apps to recommend, for people visiting rail trails in Australia. What we* need is: Must have: 1) It has to be simple to use. There are lots of powerful apps like OSMand, Locus etc, but they're incredibly complex, with lots of features we don't need. 2) Should by default use bicycle rendering (OpenCycleMap or other), or be very easy to change to that. 3) We'll need a recommendation for both iPhone and Android. Nice to have: 4) Easy-to-use offline tile downloading/use would be a bonus. (Personally I find it pretty complex switching between offline vector rendering and online tiles in the apps I mentioned before). 5) Features like food/drink near here would be a bonus. 6) Ability to also choose Google Maps would be a bonus. 7) Ability to route along bike paths (ie, rail trails) would be nice. Once we've chosen an app, we're going to have to give instructions like download the app, push this button to change to cycle mode, push this button to download tiles etc, so the simpler the better. Thanks, Steve * we = Rail Trails Australia ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Recommendations for OSM mobile app?
Hi Jo, Yeah, OsmAnd does everything - but it's pretty complicated. Switching between offline and online maps (a pretty basic task) is really hard (and very hard to remember). To go to online maps you seem to have to: 1) Menu | Settings | Offline data (Download) 2) Expand Offline maps (vector) 3) Hold down on each offline map until 'deactivate' appears, which you choose. 4) Back out to Settings, select Online maps 5) Select Online and tile maps To then choose which one actually shows: 6) Menu | Define view | Map source... 7) Pick one Hmm...written out it doesn't sound that bad, but it took quite a lot of fumbling around to get that far. (I guess the problem is the OsmAnd authors think of vector and tile maps as completely different functions, implemented completely differently, but for the user, they're just two variations on a theme.) Steve On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to tell you a few days ago that OsmAnd does all you want. Maybe write a small manual page for it, for the subset of features your users need. I didn't do it then, hoping somebody else would have a better suggestion. Polyglot 2012/11/24 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com Hi all, I'm looking for a recommendations of mobile apps to recommend, for people visiting rail trails in Australia. What we* need is: Must have: 1) It has to be simple to use. There are lots of powerful apps like OSMand, Locus etc, but they're incredibly complex, with lots of features we don't need. 2) Should by default use bicycle rendering (OpenCycleMap or other), or be very easy to change to that. 3) We'll need a recommendation for both iPhone and Android. Nice to have: 4) Easy-to-use offline tile downloading/use would be a bonus. (Personally I find it pretty complex switching between offline vector rendering and online tiles in the apps I mentioned before). 5) Features like food/drink near here would be a bonus. 6) Ability to also choose Google Maps would be a bonus. 7) Ability to route along bike paths (ie, rail trails) would be nice. Once we've chosen an app, we're going to have to give instructions like download the app, push this button to change to cycle mode, push this button to download tiles etc, so the simpler the better. Thanks, Steve * we = Rail Trails Australia ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Recommendations for OSM mobile app?
I've never found an app I can recommend, because I don't use my phone enough. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IPhone have long lists. On 24 November 2012 05:51, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a recommendations of mobile apps to recommend, for people visiting rail trails in Australia. What we* need is: Must have: 1) It has to be simple to use. There are lots of powerful apps like OSMand, Locus etc, but they're incredibly complex, with lots of features we don't need. 2) Should by default use bicycle rendering (OpenCycleMap or other), or be very easy to change to that. 3) We'll need a recommendation for both iPhone and Android. Nice to have: 4) Easy-to-use offline tile downloading/use would be a bonus. (Personally I find it pretty complex switching between offline vector rendering and online tiles in the apps I mentioned before). 5) Features like food/drink near here would be a bonus. 6) Ability to also choose Google Maps would be a bonus. 7) Ability to route along bike paths (ie, rail trails) would be nice. Once we've chosen an app, we're going to have to give instructions like download the app, push this button to change to cycle mode, push this button to download tiles etc, so the simpler the better. Thanks, Steve * we = Rail Trails Australia ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Gregory o...@livingwithdragons.com http://www.livingwithdragons.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Recommendations for OSM mobile app?
I wanted to tell you a few days ago that OsmAnd does all you want. Maybe write a small manual page for it, for the subset of features your users need. I didn't do it then, hoping somebody else would have a better suggestion. Polyglot 2012/11/24 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com Hi all, I'm looking for a recommendations of mobile apps to recommend, for people visiting rail trails in Australia. What we* need is: Must have: 1) It has to be simple to use. There are lots of powerful apps like OSMand, Locus etc, but they're incredibly complex, with lots of features we don't need. 2) Should by default use bicycle rendering (OpenCycleMap or other), or be very easy to change to that. 3) We'll need a recommendation for both iPhone and Android. Nice to have: 4) Easy-to-use offline tile downloading/use would be a bonus. (Personally I find it pretty complex switching between offline vector rendering and online tiles in the apps I mentioned before). 5) Features like food/drink near here would be a bonus. 6) Ability to also choose Google Maps would be a bonus. 7) Ability to route along bike paths (ie, rail trails) would be nice. Once we've chosen an app, we're going to have to give instructions like download the app, push this button to change to cycle mode, push this button to download tiles etc, so the simpler the better. Thanks, Steve * we = Rail Trails Australia ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Recommendations for OSM mobile app?
That would be my approach as well. Cheerio John On 27 November 2012 12:56, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to tell you a few days ago that OsmAnd does all you want. Maybe write a small manual page for it, for the subset of features your users need. I didn't do it then, hoping somebody else would have a better suggestion. Polyglot 2012/11/24 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com Hi all, I'm looking for a recommendations of mobile apps to recommend, for people visiting rail trails in Australia. What we* need is: Must have: 1) It has to be simple to use. There are lots of powerful apps like OSMand, Locus etc, but they're incredibly complex, with lots of features we don't need. 2) Should by default use bicycle rendering (OpenCycleMap or other), or be very easy to change to that. 3) We'll need a recommendation for both iPhone and Android. Nice to have: 4) Easy-to-use offline tile downloading/use would be a bonus. (Personally I find it pretty complex switching between offline vector rendering and online tiles in the apps I mentioned before). 5) Features like food/drink near here would be a bonus. 6) Ability to also choose Google Maps would be a bonus. 7) Ability to route along bike paths (ie, rail trails) would be nice. Once we've chosen an app, we're going to have to give instructions like download the app, push this button to change to cycle mode, push this button to download tiles etc, so the simpler the better. Thanks, Steve * we = Rail Trails Australia ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Recommendations for OSM mobile app?
Hi all, I'm looking for a recommendations of mobile apps to recommend, for people visiting rail trails in Australia. What we* need is: Must have: 1) It has to be simple to use. There are lots of powerful apps like OSMand, Locus etc, but they're incredibly complex, with lots of features we don't need. 2) Should by default use bicycle rendering (OpenCycleMap or other), or be very easy to change to that. 3) We'll need a recommendation for both iPhone and Android. Nice to have: 4) Easy-to-use offline tile downloading/use would be a bonus. (Personally I find it pretty complex switching between offline vector rendering and online tiles in the apps I mentioned before). 5) Features like food/drink near here would be a bonus. 6) Ability to also choose Google Maps would be a bonus. 7) Ability to route along bike paths (ie, rail trails) would be nice. Once we've chosen an app, we're going to have to give instructions like download the app, push this button to change to cycle mode, push this button to download tiles etc, so the simpler the better. Thanks, Steve * we = Rail Trails Australia ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
