<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">punting to dev@<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"RICHARDS T.W." <<a href="mailto:t.w.richards@durham.ac.uk">t.w.richards@durham.ac.uk</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">3 February 2009 09:54:03 PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Static Maps URL</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div> <div id="idOWAReplyText77202" dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">Hi,</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">I am a student at Durham University, working on a software development project to create a geocaching game.</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">I have been using Google Static Maps API, to download tiles, for my PDA application, however it isn't quite flexible/accurate enough for me to stitch together the tiles, so I have been looking into OpenStreetMap, which looks ideal.</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">However, one of the constraints of the project is we must use java for both the desktop and PDA applications, I therefore can't use the python scripts for downloading the tiles.</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">I was wondering if your Export feature on <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://www.openstreetmap.org/</font></a>, uses a url structure like... <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/</font></a>. I know its a big ask, if such a structure exists, would could you please provide details?</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Thank you very much for your time reading this, and I hope OpenStreetMap continues to be a success.</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"></font> </div></div> <div id="idSignature44840" dir="ltr"> <div><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">Kindest Regards,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Tom Richards</font></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Best<div><br></div><div>Steve</div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>