[OSM-talk] near by

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Ramiro Cosentino <ramaugust at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cheers Serge!
>
> Very interesting info. I will be checking the videos soon.
>
> Remember my app should work offline, so it can't query webservices.

If your app is offline, then you'll need to have your own internal
datastore of OSM data. There are a number of ways you could do this-
anything from using SpatiaLite to storing the data in plain XML or PBF
and running your own queries.

I think these are the issues you need to be thinking about first- your
application's internal datastore and logic mechanisms.

OSM does not have a Places API, or a Cities API. All OSM data is
stored in object tags. That means you'll either need to make your
application smart in its querying of its the OSM data, or else you'll
need to pre-process the OSM data into a form your app will find most
convenient.

Good luck,

- Serge