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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?"

2 of 46 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I hope it... by larry+bagina · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Software and pussy should both be smooth and bug free.

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  2. zoomy streetviews -humbug- what about text editor! by johnrpenner · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    aaargh -- sorry for the OT post -- but it has to be said somewhere...

    am i the only one that is frusterated that we can store gigs of photos and music, and do smooth zoomy streetviews over terrain data -- but we are unable to have even one basic basic text editor that can do the following:

    i) load 700k - 2Mb text files (i edit books)
    ii) bookmarks & text files open back at the last place you were
    iii) really good clean search/replace
    iv) user definable background & text colour
    v) does not read microsoft word or jpeg files.

    even the best text editor applications for are worse than macwrite 1.0 right now. :-P

    2cents