Re: [android-developers] Re: Alternative (offline) implementation of Geocoder backend service

2011-12-16 Thread Chris Ostler
James Black planiturth...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't tried it, but one solution is to look at how they use Nominim, which is one api for openstreet https://gitorious.org/callerid-for-android/mainline/commit/ffe7607134085fc6ea1b2ce425f8ac26cbc2c3c6/diffs This link shows an example of using

[android-developers] Re: Alternative (offline) implementation of Geocoder backend service

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Ostler
On Dec 12, 5:30 pm, TreKing wrote: Replying back to the whole list. Oops. Thanks for the catch. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Chris Ostler chris.ost...@gmail.comwrote: On Dec 12, 4:37 pm, TreKing wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Chris Ostler wrote: I'm interested

[android-developers] Re: Alternative (offline) implementation of Geocoder backend service

2011-12-15 Thread Chris Ostler
Replying back to the whole list. Whoops. Clicked the wrong link. Thanks for the save. I'm interested in building an alternative backend service for use by the android.location.Geocoder class. Are you talking about updating the existing Geocoder class? Because you should

[android-developers] Alternative (offline) implementation of Geocoder backend service

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Ostler
I'm interested in building an alternative backend service for use by the android.location.Geocoder class. I'd like to support doing some basic offline geocoding (probably using OpenStreetMap data) when the network is not available, but fall back to the default implementation otherwise. I found