[OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

[John McKerrell]

On 10 Nov 2008, at 13:08, Joseph Gentle wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM, John07 <osm at jonas-krueckel.de>  
> wrote:
>> I think editing on this small screen with (maybe) bad latency...  
>> will not be
>> easy and efficient. I think Openstreetbugs is better for this. You  
>> can
>> include it into your app like the josm-plugin does. With  
>> Openstreetbugs you
>> don´t have to know the osm-tagging-schema and you can just add  
>> quickly
>> notes.
>>
>> When you`re releasing the app, create a osm-wikipage (or i will do  
>> it ;-) )
>> and i´m sure you will get a lot of feedback and proposals for  
>> improving the
>> app.
>>
>> Jonas
>>
>
> I'm starting a new job in a couple weeks and I don't have time. I'll
> help anyone who wants to make this happen and push it to the app store
> when its done, but I'll need another developer to carry the flame.
>

I just yesterday submitted my first app to the app store (or maybe I  
didn't, I forget if the NDA allows me to say). It's a simple thing  
that lets you submit a postcode to freethepostcode.org for the current  
location as reported by the on-board GPS.

I've also managed to "port" the routing engine from gosmore to the  
iPhone and successfully generated a (relatively short) route on my  
phone. I'm quite interested in taking this further and also perhaps  
doing some sort of OSM viewing/editing app. I'm not sure when I'll get  
time to work on this but I'm hoping over the next week I might get  
around to adding some features to the routing app. Currently it just  
generates a route between two hardcoded locations and that's all so  
obviously there's work to be done there.

John