[Tilesathome] Using OSM on the iPhone

[spaetz]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:42:32PM +0200, Gernot wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm currently developing an Application that shows nearby points of
> interest on the iPhone. To show where they are, I use a OpenStreetMap
> static map, served from tah.openstreetmap.org/mapOf/

I am sorry that it stopped working reliably. but independently of this, it's not supposed to be used in an automated manner like this.
Tiles are fetched and dynamically stitched together on each call, making this quite an expensive transaction compared to just fetching a few tiles (and doing the stitching yourself, or showing it in a small local openlayers).

I don't encourage people to use MapOf this way. On the same note, will the wikimedia plugin fetch a MapOf pic for every site view, or does it the fetching once in a while and caches that then?

spaetz