Hey, great work! I'm currently working a mapping project, with smallish, customized maps. I'm wondering about your strategy for map tiling? Did OSM do it/provide an easy for you to tile the maps/download the tiles? Basically I'm looking for some software that will help me turn my own images into map tiles. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
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No routing as of now. My main target segment is tourists on foot in popular travel destinations outside of their country. I think a map of the entire world is too big to fit on an iPhone (at least in pre-rendered map tiles - not sure if 64G can hold vector data either). An option for you could be to download the maps of all towns in your path and rely on paper maps for highways connecting the cities. If you do end up…
Thanks > No routing as of now. Are you planning to add it? > I think a map of the entire world is too big to fit on an iPhone Fair enough, but I'm still wondering if I can just use "raw" OpenStreetMap data and load it into your app? Do you have some kind of internal "conversion" process to make the map usable with your app? maybe you could release that tool so we can do it for ourselves? (Again, I'm sure you don't wa…
I might release it some day. Right now, the code is not release-worthy. I do know my way around it since I wrote it and so, it's really pretty easy for me to add new maps if you send the names of the cities without much manual work.
Thanks for giving me the idea of automating this further though - may be users can look up cities and the backend can generate a map for them, publish it and notify them when it is available. However, since I get requests for new maps very infrequently, I am too lazy to do it right away.
Re: Show HN: My nights and weekends project based on openstreetmaps
#13Hey, great work! I'm currently working a mapping project, with smallish, customized maps. I'm wondering about your strategy for map tiling? Did OSM do it/provide an easy for you to tile the maps/download the tiles? Basically I'm looking for some software that will help me turn my own images into map tiles. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
I use mapnik to generate tiles from OSM data. Get in touch with me via email ravi at light fighter labs dawt com (dawt should avoid harvesters :)) I'll be glad if I can help.
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#14I just got back from Aruba, and would have loved to have a map (no international data plan). Could definitely see the draw.
Buy it now so you don't have to remember to buy it before your next trip :)
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#15Looks great. A couple of questions: 1) Are the maps route-able? Can I use this for turn-by-turn? 2) Can I download the entire world OpenStreetMap and use it with this app? For a round-the-world I'm planning, I'd like to get maps of everywhere. (For example, last time I drove from Alaska to Argentina, and I'd like to be able to use the OpenStreetMaps of everywhere in between) Thanks!
Look at MapsWithMe
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#16Whats your thoughts on the app MapsWithMe? I use it and it lets me download whole countries with surprisingly good detail.
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#17Nice! Are you planning to make an Android app?
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#18Whats your thoughts on the app MapsWithMe? I use it and it lets me download whole countries with surprisingly good detail.
That's an awesome app. I would like to have their rendering detail and compression but settled for what I did to make sure I have an MVP. They focussed on map rendering quality and I focussed on travelers' needs. They were 4 guys working for a year and I was one guy with nights and weekends working for 2 months before launch.
On another note, I made my app free for a couple of days a few weeks ago and it became the #1 travel app in 18 countries and it overtook Google Earth on the US AppStore for a day or so. See my account on that here: http://blog.lightfighterlabs.com/how-i-got-45000-downloads-i...
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#19Nice! Are you planning to make an Android app?
Android has built in offline maps. Not sure about POIs not sure if the quality is as good as openstreetmaps for offline version. Given the app sales monetization for iOS vs Android is ~ 9:1, I need to come up with other monetization methods before working on an Android version.
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#20Nice! Are you planning to make an Android app?
Android has built in offline maps. Not sure about POIs not sure if the quality is as good as openstreetmaps for offline version. Given the app sales monetization for iOS vs Android is ~ 9:1, I need to come up with other monetization methods before working on an Android version.
Yes, Android has offline maps, but based on google maps. It would be nice to have an OSM-based app. There are lots of places globally where OSM is more detailed than google's.