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Smooth Open Street Maps For the iPhone

Posted by samzenpus on from the see-where-you're-going dept.

detrow writes "A number of projects are working on bringing a smooth Open Street Maps Viewer to the iPhone, where smooth means as smooth as the Google Maps application. Route-Me is one of them (New BSD License, complete Objective-C native code). The GPS Mission blog reports that their application (GPS Mission) uses Route-Me and made it to the App Store as the first application using that OSM component. The map looks real nice and behaves just like Google Maps with all the well known zooming and panning available. What other iPhone applications exist that feel as smooth as Google Maps but use the Open Street Map?"

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  1. Re:I hope it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I cannot recall right now which GPS nav allows for feedback, but the one downside I have heard about it is you need enough users in the area to make it work well. Kinda like Sprint / Verizon / T-mobile / ATT / etc all allow free mobile to mobile, provided its on the same network. In smaller communities, it drives people to chose one provider over another because of the free buy-in.

  2. Re:iPhone is becoming an 800-pound gorilla platfor by timmarhy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    maybe a standard in hype...

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  3. this is where having an iphone seems uselesss. by DragonTHC · · Score: 1, Insightful

    you really should have bought an android phone. My G1 shines when using the GPS function on google maps. It's quite useful.

    The iphone's "you are somewhere in this giant circle" gps function is just useless.

    jesusphone indeed.

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