Sorry I included only Jeff on this reply, forwarding to the rest... On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:49 PM, IgnacioZ <[email protected]> wrote: > But with that model you can't have offline maps edition which I think > is particularly useful for mobiles. There are several places you don't > have internet available: if you like hiking, or maybe underwater, or > you are doing some trekking on an interesting new place, or you just > don't want to be online because it drains a lot of battery, or because > you are travelling and don't want to pay for the costs of being > connected. > > And for offline editing it is important to have the previous data > offline also, not only the tiles. > > > Ignacio. > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Jeff Spirko <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:56 PM, 80n <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Form the description of True Maps at >>> http://www.appstorehq.com/true-offline-mapslite-iphone-144457/app >>> >>> "- Search and Edit POI. True maps will allow you to search for specific >>> places of interest nearby and to even add your owns totally offline. Since >>> true maps will interact directly with openstreetmap your POI will also be >>> available to everyone!" >>> >>> This seems like a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand we want a mass market >>> POI editing tool to capture all those long tail contributors, on the other >>> hand that's never going to happen if we block any prospective app as soon as >>> it starts to become popular. >> >> Sounds like the database maintainers would prefer that the App use >> tiles for viewing the map and only log in to get data via the API if >> the user wants to edit the map, like the way the Slippy Map works. >> >> -Jeff >> >> >>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 16/03/10 09:35, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:# >>>> >>>> > Then is some further discussion on the same for the API also required >>>> > and a >>>> > policy, perhaps similar to the format of tiles, established? There are >>>> > data >>>> > limits for an individual call still so presumably it's just an extension >>>> > of >>>> > that in words rather than an API limit? >>>> >>>> It's less about volume and more about what you're doing with the data >>>> where the map api is concerned. >>>> >>>> I mean obviously the intent is to limit the volume of calls, but we've >>>> tended to do that by saying that the point is that it should be used as >>>> part of an editing cycle where you are fetching data with the intention >>>> of changing it rather than just in order to use it in a read only way. >>>> >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Tom Hughes ([email protected]) >>>> http://compton.nu/ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> talk mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeff Spirko [email protected] [email protected] WD3V |=> >> >> The study of non-linear physics is like the study of non-elephant biology. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >
_______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
