[OSM-talk] OSM for mobile web pages?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> now: I'd like to use OSM on pages optimised for mobile phone - google
> maps have a service which displays a small (about 200px sq.) image
> with simple links to pan and zoom. The 'tile browser' at
> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Browse/ is close, but way too large
> for mobile phone screens.

Tiles are 256x256 pixel. If you want decent usability you must  
display three columns and three rows and then always pan by +/-1  
otherwise the user gets confused. You could try to simply display one  
tile but I doubt this will work well.

Anything not working with existing tiles would mean that you either  
have to create tiles yourself which requires a bit of infrastructure,  
or you would have to combine and split existing tiles through a web  
service which would mean that all map traffic goes through that  
service...

Bye
Frederik

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