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