[OSM-talk] Using osmdroid for an Android university course

[Paul Johnson]

How about osmand?


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (not sure if this belongs in talk or dev)
>
> Next year I am running a university course on Android development.
>
> I am planning to include a section on location-aware apps and mapping, and
> naturally I want to use OSM. ;-)
>
> Mapsforge is one option, however IMV the new 0.4 API has a little too much
> complexity for what will be complete newcomers to Android development (they
> have Java experience though).
>
> So I'd like to use osmdroid, however I'm aware that apps that use raster
> tile sources can place a strain on tileservers.
>
> It looks like osmdroid will now talk to the MapQuest tileservers though.
>
> Will it be acceptable - particularly if I use MapQuest - to use osmdroid
> for this course? There will be 20 students max.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
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