Re:Show HN: My nights and weekends project based on openstre...
by rithal on Monday June 25, 2012 @02:53PM
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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.
> 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 want to manually convert maps of every town on the Pan American highway from Alaska to Argentina for me (that's 16 countries worth))