Thank you for you quick response. And I would like to know, what features should be implemented in this android app? Can you please list them?
> > Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:32:09 +0100 > From: Peter K?rner <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] How to apply OSM "Official" Application for > Android GSOC project > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Am 11.03.2012 12:18, schrieb Gihan De Silva: > > HI, > > > > I'm Gihan De Silva and I'm interested in OSM "Official" Application for > Android GSOC project. And is this project supposed to be done with > HTML5+JavaScript or Java? > > If anyone can show me a good tutorial on OSM API, it would be highly > appreciated. > > The won't be *the* osm application. Depending on what you want to do > you'll need several different applications. > - One for mapping POIs > - One for mapping all OSM objects (ways, areas, route-relations) > - One for watching pixel-tile-maps, possibly with server-side routing > - One for watching Vector-Maps and routing locally > - One for recording GPX-Traces and upload them directly to the API > > The technology to be used depends highly on what you're familar with. If > you know on how to develop rich UIs for mobile devices with HTML5, do that. > If you're better with Java, go that route. But which ever way you choose, > first define what exactly what you want to do, then choose the tools you're > planning to use. > > Regarding the OSM Api you need to first check, what you want to do, > because there are several APIs for diffentent tasks to perform. > - The Main-API for Editors and GPX-Uploaders > - The XAPI and the Overpass-API for specific Data-Consumers > - The Tiles-Server for Pixel-Map-Viewer > > But in most cases you'll need to define & set up a custom API dedicated at > the use case of your app. This offloads the main apis which are dedicated > to mappers and allows you to optimize the communication between your app an > the API by shifting processing requirements away from the mobile device. > > Peter > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > > End of dev Digest, Vol 84, Issue 13 > *********************************** >
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