[OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-11-26 Thread Nick Black
Hi Guys, Mapzen POI Collector was released into the App Store this morning. Mapzen POI Collector is a free iPhone app that makes it really easy to collect POIs for OpenStreetMap. Users locate themselves using the iPhone's built in GPS, position a pin at the location of the POI they want to add an

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Körner
Very cool thing! But, how do I select the language, once I've installed Mapzen from the App-Store (I found it by searching for Mapzen, not via the links above) I also already have a feature Request: I'd like to have auto completion in the "Street" field. Peter __

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-11-26 Thread Nick Black
Hi Peter, The app itself is not yet localised, though we plan to do so in later versions. Thanks for the feature request :-) The first update will focus on expanding the choices of POI types, so if there is a type that is not present, please add to here: http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Körner
Some more things that came in to my mind: 1. When Moving a POI it's not visible, because your finger is over it. When you started moving, there's no way back and no possibility to cancel. It would be better if moving were implemented just as adding: holding the finger generates a pin that can b

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Black
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Peter Körner wrote: > Some more things that came in to my mind: > > 1. When Moving a POI it's not visible, because your finger is over it. > When you started moving, there's no way back and no possibility to > cancel. It would be better if moving were implemented

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-02 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Nick Black wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Mapzen POI Collector was released into the App Store this morning. > Mapzen POI Collector is a free iPhone app that makes it really easy to > collect POIs for OpenStreetMap.  Users locate themselves using the > iPhone's built in GP

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-03 Thread Nick Black
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Nick Black wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> Mapzen POI Collector was released into the App Store this morning. >> Mapzen POI Collector is a free iPhone app that makes it really easy to >> collect POIs for OpenStree

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Nick, Nick Black wrote: > Mapzen POI Collector is a free iPhone app that makes it really easy to > collect POIs for OpenStreetMap. Users locate themselves using the > iPhone's built in GPS, position a pin at the location of the POI they > want to add and then choose from a range of pre-selected ca

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-03 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/4 Frederik Ramm : > Nick, > I assume that the POI collector not only lets you collect new POIs but > also modify existing ones. For this, the existing ones must be shown as > active elements on the map that the device displays. Given that the OSM > server proper is too slow to answer real-t

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-04 Thread Nick Black
Hi Frederick, Answers below. Oleg Shaniuk is the CM developer who presented about Mapzen POI Collector at SOTM - he'll be able to give more detail than me. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Nick, > > Nick Black wrote: >> >> Mapzen POI Collector is a free iPhone app that ma

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Nick, Oleg, thank you for answering. I'm quite surprised that you are working directly from the API. Nick writes: > The server is actually quite responsive for POIs - maybe its because > node queries are faster than way queries and because the bboxes are > generally very small (equal to a fe

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-07 Thread Tom Hughes
On 07/12/09 14:16, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Nick, Oleg, > > thank you for answering. > > I'm quite surprised that you are working directly from the API. Nick writes: > >> The server is actually quite responsive for POIs - maybe its because >> node queries are faster than way queries and because

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>A call to get only points is certainly something we could add and it >would certainly save quite a bit of work on the server over the normal >map call and hence hopefully speed things up. What would be really good, I think, to avoid conflicts is to add some API code which refuses to add a POI

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Körner
> Well TRAPI already exists for the purpose of providing efficient read > only access to the data for an area. From the TRAPI wiki page: > Trapi does not store all tags, so Trapi data should not be used to > edit and upload back to openstreetmap. Peter ___

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Peter Körner schreef: >> Well TRAPI already exists for the purpose of providing efficient read >> only access to the data for an area. > > From the TRAPI wiki page: > > Trapi does not store all tags, so Trapi data should not be used to > > edit

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Nick, Oleg, > >thank you for answering. > > I'm quite surprised that you are working directly from the API. Nick writes: > >> The server is actually quite responsive for POIs - maybe its because >> node queries are faster than way queries