Bring CloudMade Maps to Your iPhone Application
If you’re looking for maps to add to your iPhone application you’re in the right place.
CloudMade’s iPhone Maps Library is an open source library that gives application developers everything you need to create great navigation applications on the iPhone. You don’t need to wait any longer to add turn-by-turn navigation for vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists.
The iPhone Maps Library is part of a suite of CloudMade APIs and tools that give developers access to regularly updated crowd-sourced maps. Give your users a unique experience – take control of the look and feel of your application and create richer, more interactive experiences.
The iPhone Maps Library integrates with other CloudMade tools including Style Editor, a web based tool that gives access to a variety of professionally designed map styles, which you can customize to fit your application’s specific purpose.
The are several applications in the App Store that already use CloudMade’s maps, with many more in the pipline
Trails – Relive your greatest biking, hiking and walking
moments and share them with your friends; Trails lets
you view your activities on a choice of different
CloudMade maps.
The main features of CloudMade’s Map Library are:
- Quick development time with easy to follow examples
- Mapping framework & controls
- Custom tile serving
- Geocoding
- Routing service via vehicle, pedestrian and cycle
- Integration with iPhone Location API
WorldView Live – If the view out of your window isn’t
exotic enough WorldView Live is the app for you; This
great application lets you view live webcams from all
around the world.
CloudMade’s iPhone Maps Library provides developers with a real alternative to standard mapping on the iPhone. This, combined with the ability to let consumers bring their custom maps across with them – across desktop, mobile and web – make for a compelling end user experience.
March 19th, 2009 - Posted by Cragg Nilson in api, clients, cloudmade, developers, events, ruby | | 9 Comments
A Summary of the Future of Mapping
Over the last few days we’ve launched the CloudMade Developer Programme in front of packed audiences in San Francisco and London. There was a real buzz at both events – a feeling that the tools and services we’ve been working on are going to make a real difference to developers.
There’s a lot of anticipation at CloudMade about the applications that can be built using our mapping APIs. If you’re looking for inspiration, you need a quick recap, or you couldn’t make it to the events, read on to find out more.
February 16th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in api, clients, cloudmade, developers, openstreetmap, products, talks | | 6 Comments
Introducing the CloudMade Developer Zone
The CloudMade Developer Zone launched last week in San Francisco. We’ll be bring the launch to London this Thursday February 12th. There will be keynotes, live demonstrations from CloudMade partners that will include social networking, navigation, real estate, personal tracking, fleet tracking applications and more. There are only a few places left, so please sign-up now to avoid disappointment.
The CloudMade Developer Zone has all the resources developers need to get started building awesome location based applications. Here are some highlights:
Video Tutorials
Video tutorials are a great way to get started with a new tool quickly. We’re going to be publishing lots more screen casts, like this one about our Style Editor:
CloudMade StyleEditor ScreenCast from CloudMade on Vimeo.
If you’ve been using any of our tools or APIs, you can create a screen cast and have it featured on the site. You could show how to make an amazing map style using the Style Editor, how to take our Ruby API and integrate it into a Rails application or how to use our open source repositories to modify our iPhone Maps Library. Email in your screen casts here and we’ll get back to you.
Open Source Libraries and APIs
We want to make it as easy as possible for you to get started using our services. So that you can be up and running with as little hassle as possible, we have open source libraries for Ruby, Java, Python and iPhone Objective-C. From the Developer Zone you can browse and check-out the source code, join the project and contribute back to the community. There’s also step-by-step tutorials for each library and wiki pages where you can add any tips you might have.
You can find out more about the Developer Zone here.
February 9th, 2009 - Posted by Nick Black in api, cloudmade, developers, products, ruby, tips | | 8 Comments
Developer Watch – CloudMade Maps in your API
There are a lot of mapping APIs out there giving developers a lot of choice. Some are simple and lightweight, like our Web Maps Lite and some are incredibly fully featured, like the awesome OpenLayers. The image below is a screenshot from John McKerrell’s maps page, which uses MultiMap’s Open API to display several different layers, including our standard web, mobile and no-names layers. Click on the image below to take a look for yourself.
Its great to see developers like John mixing and matching layers like this – its exactly what we had in mind when we started to put together our tile server. We want to help OpenStreetMap’s goal of letting people do interesting and unexpected things with map data. So long as you respect the terms of OpenStreetMap’s CC-by-SA license and attribute CloudMade when you use our maps, you can use our tiles in any web, mobile or desktop client.
If you do something cool with CloudMade maps, let us know.
August 5th, 2008 - Posted by Nick Black in api, cloudmade, openstreetmap, tools | | 0 Comments
Product Blog – Two New pre-Alpha APIs from CloudMade
Last week we took the covers off our new CloudMade website – if you haven’t had a look already, head over to CloudMade.com and see for yourself.
We also released two new APIs as pre-Alpha services: theWeb Maps API and the Mobile Maps API. Right now these services are targeted at developers who want to get their hands on the very latest things we have to offer. Both APIs are accessed by directly calling our tile server, though the observant amongst you will probably have noticed slippy maps present on lots of our pages. We’ll be releasing documentation for the slippy map API shortly, so watch this space.
We’re particularly excited about the Mobile Maps API, which gives developers access to a set of tiles which we’ve started to optimize for mobile use. By reducing the tile size to 64×64 pixels (rather than the usual 256×256) and simplifying the cartography we’re keeping tile sizes down to around 2-3kB. This is a first pass and we hope to get the sizes down even more to help mobile applications save on costly bandwidth and enhance user experience.
Because both these services are built on top of OpenStreetMap data you can use them in almost any way you like. Most other online map providers don’t let you use their maps in mobile devices or for real time routing or tracking or outside of their own APIs, for example. We want you to use CloudMade maps for the coolest things you can think of.
If you are itching to play with either the Web or Mobile Maps API, you can request an API key here – I can’t promise that you’ll get access straight away, but we will get back to you as soon as the API is ready. We’ve also got a developers mailing list which you can sign up to here.
Both images based on map data created by OpenStreetMap.org contributors and licensed CCBYSA.
June 4th, 2008 - Posted by Nick Black in api, cloudmade, geodata, news, products, tools | | 0 Comments
MiniBar / WhereCamp Slides
Here are the slides to accompany the presentaion given at MiniBar on the 25th May. We gave a similar version of the presentation as a lightening talk at WhereCamp, in Sunnyvale CA on the 2nd June. Enjoy!
June 8th, 2007 - Posted by in REST, api, ruby, ruby on rails, tools | | 0 Comments
