Joseph Gentle schrieb: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:41 PM, John07 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Joe Richards schrieb: >> >>> Anyone who has played with an iPhone will have seen the Google maps >>> application, which provides much of the functionality of the Javascript web >>> app, while giving quite a good tactile feel.... It also uses wireless >>> triangulation - or if available, GPS - to show search results for things >>> that are near you. >>> >>> Is there any project to create a similar application for the iPhone that >>> uses OSM maps and data sources? I think it would be an excellent way to >>> introduce OSM to people who have never seen it... I would imagine the >>> existing functionality of the Google Maps application, plus maybe the >>> ability to do some small-scale editing such as adding nodes for things like >>> amenities while you're out and about... >>> >>> >> I think Openstreetbugs would be better for this. >> >>> Searching for existing apps showed me that some people have stuffed some >>> openstreetmap tiles into the GMap application on the iPhone (basically a >>> hack, replacing the cached tiles) - but that isn't the same as having >>> global coverage, and making the app available via the AppStore (or iTunes) >>> would present a huge new audience. >>> >>> >>> >> I thought of the same thing many times in the past. Such a app would be >> very cool. >> There are also the some webapps for a slippy map, but the usability >> isn´t that good. >> For ipod touch users like me a big cache would be very nice or a direct >> posibility to store some tiles for offline use. In the 2.0 version of >> the app maybe the developer could integrated some more osm-features like >> poi search or pedestrian routing. But rather start with only displaying >> maps and then integrate more and more. >> >> So, is there any iphone developer out there? I´m sure the osm foundation >> would sponsor the apple registration fee so that the app could be >> available for free. Or maybe cloudmade could develope an app. It would >> give osm a lot of publicity. >> > > *waves* > > I mentioned route-me because its my baby. Its a solid tile rendering > engine. The maps work fine, we have on-'disk' caching support for > tiles. Performance is similar to the built-in map app. There are a > couple annoying bugs which are being squashed. Marker support is > getting there. > > If anyone is interested in wrapping an app around it and adding GPS > support & search I'll happily push it out to the app store (I have a > dev license). Other useful features to add include: > - Geotracing support > - Editing > - Routing > > -J > > > I think editing on this small screen with (maybe) bad latency... will not be easy and efficient. I think Openstreetbugs is better for this. You can include it into your app like the josm-plugin does. With Openstreetbugs you don´t have to know the osm-tagging-schema and you can just add quickly notes.
When you`re releasing the app, create a osm-wikipage (or i will do it ;-) ) and i´m sure you will get a lot of feedback and proposals for improving the app. Jonas P.S.forgot to send to the list _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
