[OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

[John07]

Joseph Gentle schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:41 PM, John07 <osm at jonas-krueckel.de> wrote:
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>> Joe Richards schrieb:
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>>> Anyone who has played with an iPhone will have seen the Google maps application, which provides much of the functionality of the Javascript web app, while giving quite a good tactile feel....  It also uses wireless triangulation - or if available, GPS - to show search results for things that are near you.
>>>
>>> Is there any project to create a similar application for the iPhone that uses OSM maps and data sources?  I think it would be an excellent way to introduce OSM to people who have never seen it...  I would imagine the existing functionality of the Google Maps application, plus maybe the ability to do some small-scale editing such as adding nodes for things like amenities while you're out and about...
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>> I think Openstreetbugs would be better for this.
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>>> Searching for existing apps showed me that some people have stuffed some openstreetmap tiles into the GMap application on the iPhone (basically a hack, replacing the cached tiles) - but that isn't the same as having global coverage, and making the app available via the AppStore (or iTunes) would present a huge new audience.
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>> I thought of the same thing many times in the past. Such a app would be
>> very cool.
>> There are also the some webapps for a slippy map, but the usability
>> isn´t that good.
>> For ipod touch users like me a big cache would be very nice or a direct
>> posibility to store some tiles for offline use. In the 2.0 version of
>> the app maybe the developer could integrated some more osm-features like
>> poi search or pedestrian routing. But rather start with only displaying
>> maps and then integrate more and more.
>>
>> So, is there any iphone developer out there? I´m sure the osm foundation
>> would sponsor the apple registration fee so that the app could be
>> available for free. Or maybe cloudmade could develope an app. It would
>> give osm a lot of publicity.
>>     
>
> *waves*
>
> I mentioned route-me because its my baby. Its a solid tile rendering
> engine. The maps work fine, we have on-'disk' caching support for
> tiles. Performance is similar to the built-in map app. There are a
> couple annoying bugs which are being squashed. Marker support is
> getting there.
>
> If anyone is interested in wrapping an app around it and adding GPS
> support & search I'll happily push it out to the app store (I have a
> dev license). Other useful features to add include:
> - Geotracing support
> - Editing
> - Routing
>
> -J
>
>
>   
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

P.S.forgot to send to the list