Musings from the Peanut Gallery

I now have HikeSuperstition displaying trails. The problem is, the maps don’t have any data in the areas where we are putting trails, so the map looks pretty blank.
Here is an example:

I could use Google maps, but Google is all about downloading from the web, not caching on the device. Since there is no connection [...]

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At long last, after far too much effort, I’ve gotten HikeSuperstitionMountain iPhone app to display trailheads on the map. It also rotates.
Part of this effort involved creating a sample application (SimpleSampleMap) for the route-me project. This application acted as a base to develop HikeSuperstitionMountain from. Now working on adding the ability to select the trailhead [...]

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I’ve been working on an iPhone app that we’re calling something creative like HikeSuperstitionMountain. This application will provide users with pre-mapped trails that they can follow on their iPhones, using Core Location to provide location via the GPS chip.
Currently I have the application using route-me, an open source mapping project designed to provide map data, [...]

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