[OSM-newbies] iphone app

[John McKerrell]

On 15 Oct 2010, at 23:26, Eric Jarvies wrote:

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> On Oct 15, 2010, at 11:51 AM, SteveC wrote:
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>> fwding to people who can help
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>> On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Telmo Costa wrote:
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>>> Hello, 
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>>> I went to app store to see if there was any oficial osm app for iphone but found just a few that were conected indirectly with osm, I want to help with osm database, but looks like none of the apps are 100% reliable plus I am currently abroad and have no signal or internet conection for my iphone, unless if I find any wifi, but I am in a very isolated area. And I travel a lot so roaming on my phone just is not what I want.
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>>> I would like to use a free app to track and record GPS data straight from the iphone and upload straight to osm from my iphone when ever I find a wifi available, is there any app that can do this?
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> If you have Cydia installed on your iPhone/iPod/iPad, you can install and use the 'WiFiFoFum' application for the 'war driving' which is collecting WiFi APs(Access Points) and their respective coordinates.  Once collected in WiFiFoFum, you can then export them(via .csv for example), and then open them up in a spreadsheet or something, and edit the fields to match OSM, and then import them to OSM.

If you don't have Cydia then OffMaps is a great app for using OSM maps while you're roaming. You prime it before you leave by selecting an area and it downloads the tiles from that area to whichever level you select. You can also log bugs while you're out and about which get added to the OpenStreetBugs site. It's not an editor and doesn't store traces but it's a very handy app and it's good to be able to say "this road name is spelt wrong" or things like that. The app's not free but it's been well worth the price for me.

John