[OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

[Simone Cortesi]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 18:01, Zsombor Szabó <zsombor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Simone:
>
> If you see a clickable openmaps:// link somewhere in an iOS app (e.g.
> in Twitter for iPhone) and click on it then OpenMaps will launch and
> show you that OSM place where (pasted text from above coming) you can
> comment on it via Twitter, calculate the route to there, add it to
> your contacts, send the link to it via email to your friends, edit its
> tags, etc. You get the main idea.
>
> Currently the Twitter website doesn't create clickable links for
> custom URL schemes e.g.  mailto: or openmaps:, in our case, but I am
> working with them to add support for this.

This is the reason I did ask. If one of your aim is to drive user
attention. in this use case, a use, not knowledgeable about
openstreetmap will not discover it, ending up with a non working URL
schema.

Cool if you can have the ppl at twitter add it. but what about the others?

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-S