[Openstreetmap] OpenStreetMap/Freemap and mobile devices?

[Tom Carden]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:
 > i) Get your current position from the inbuilt GPS, construct an HTTP 
request to the server using, e.g. the cURL library, and get a map back 
as, say, a PNG image.
 >

This is the current OSM URL that returns a PNG.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit/viewMapImage.jsp?lat=51.526447&lon=-0.14746371&scale=20000.0&width=320&height=240

Obviously there is work to do on the rendering (current todo list 
involves drawing lines which only have one node inside the current 
projection).  I'd like to implement something like my Processing demo 
code for the actual renderer this weekend.

Tom.