[OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

[John07]

John McKerrell schrieb:
> 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
>   
Routing as a further step would be great.

I think this page is good for putting information and ideas together: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/IPhone
Please write down your ideas and write something about your current 
development.
If it is a lot of text we should generate sub-pages like: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/IPhone/route-me

Jonas

P.S. forgot to send to the list :-(