[OSM-talk] Shameless Promotion/New OSM Renderer

[John Harvey]

Hey! I'm one of the many people who make "offline" maps for the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.  I charge for my products but for a limited time, I'm making one (Atlanta) free: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/20mb-atlanta-map/id385689407?mt=8 It will go back to being a paid application once the State of the Map US conference has completed: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/US_SOTM Why bother downloading the my App?  I wrote a brand new render engine for Open Street Map data and there are cool new features to see.  Gone are bitmap tiles - all data is rendered on the fly using the OpenGL hardware.  Some new features you don't see every day: Labels on ways and features are redrawn every frame to try to give you the best map Multiple views of the same map (Transit Map, Bike Map) using the same data. ~100 times compression over tiles - network bandwidth is tiny.  We can represent the 5 boroughs of New York in less than 20MB (Apples limit for app's downloaded over wifi). Popups for Points of Interest - see more of the metadata available on POI's. No code past planet.osm was written by Frederick Ramm. ;) I'm still early on in application development - there are bugs with the rendering and many features in the backlog.  I'd love feedback (offline) if you have it. John

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