[OSM-talk-ie] eircode question

Donie Kelly donie.kelly at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 15:44:00 UTC 2015


Hi Dan

That just show me how to add the OSM overlays to an existing map in my app. 

The directions that come from the Eircode site uses a custom url scheme of maps.apple.com <http://maps.apple.com/> as it’s detecting that iPhone is in the user agent header. That will open the maps app automatically. On other platforms it jumps to maps.google.com <http://maps.google.com/> which I’m guessing is customisable on Android as to what opens it.

This is not an option on iOS to have another app using the maps.apple.com <http://maps.apple.com/> url scheme.

I’ve asked Eircode if they have an API available but they don’t but will have a list of third party suppliers of Eircode data soon. That means we could purchase lookups of eircode data at very low prices. But it does not allow us to publish a free app which is fully capable of doing what one would like to be able to do. Maybe down the road when the usage increase there would be a market for an app which works as you would need but for now I guess we’ll wait and see how it pans out.

Donie


> On 17 Jul 2015, at 16:23, Daniel Cussen <dan at post.com> wrote:
> 
> On android it asks dedicated mapping app, or firefox or chrome, and I
> select afterwards "just once" so it asks me every time.
> 
> I assume if I do not pick just once it will remember and go straight
> without asking me, as your apple is doing.
> 
> See here for first place I found after a search:
> http://www.glimsoft.com/01/31/how-to-use-openstreetmap-on-ios-7-in-7-lines-of-code/
> 
> "in today’s programming tutorial, I’ll show you how easy it is to use
> OpenStreetMap maps in your app instead of default Apple maps. "
> 
> On 17/07/2015, Donie Kelly <donie.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> HI Dan
>> 
>> Are you on Android, because on iOS it only jumps to Apple maps when you
>> click directions?
>> 
>> Donie
>> 
>>> On 17 Jul 2015, at 15:44, Daniel Cussen <dan at post.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> So I did some tests.
>>> 
>>> If I go to finer.eircode.ie on my phone and put in a postcode, and
>>> then click directions, the co-ordinates are handed over to my phone. I
>>> then have a choice of which mapping app to use. It is important to
>>> pick DIRECTIONS as other options use the eircode mapping website. The
>>> DIRECTIONS option does not appear on the non mobile version.
>>> 
>>> Using google maps, it takes my current location and directs me all the
>>> way to a GPS position. This currently works even though google maps
>>> does not support eircode.
>>> 
>>> You can do this 15 times a day, currently, and assuming an OSM app
>>> works the same, it will also be handed the position. It even shows the
>>> address info with the house number and name pulled from Eircode.
>>> 
>>> This is a current possible use case. I am assuming it is currently
>>> possible or should be possible with OSM.  I don't have any OSM apps on
>>> my phone at present to try.
>>> 
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