[OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

[Andrew Gregory]

(Sorry, slip of the finger sent a blank email...)

Regarding mobile mapping apps for Android, I'm a part-time developer of
Vespucci. A few months back I did a lot of stability work and it now hardly
ever crashes for me. I also improved the map tiles by adding support for
many different layers (esp Bing).

Major items missing are relation support and improved GPS logging. I'm too
busy right now to work on them, but if nothing has happened in a few months
when I should have some spare time, then those would be my priority.

Nevertheless, I'm using Vespucci now to do bicycle surveying, adding new
roads not on aerial photography, and collecting street names. I imagine it
would be quite good for handling walking trails.

Andrew
On Nov 21, 2011 9:17 PM, "Richard Fairhurst" <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> Václav Řehák wrote:
> > Any tile server provided by the app author will be way behind in
> > the updates. I expect the Locus tile server to be updated once in
> > a week or so making it unusable for my weekend mapping trips.
>
> I think this, sadly, falls under the category of "collateral damage". The
> 1%
> of users who rely on Locus et al for mapping purposes are rather hit by the
> 99% who just use it to download maps, hammering our tile servers.
>
> Ideally we would have dedicated smartphone mapping apps, for which we would
> happily permit tile/API access. No, I'm not volunteering to write one, but
> I
> have a suspicion we'll see at least one such app within the year. ;)
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
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