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. Jonas _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
