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22nd October 2007 - Link Blog

OpenStreetMap on the iPhone! Via an ingenious hack. The Google Maps iPhone client caches downloaded tiles using SQLite—to display your own custom tiles, you just need to dump them straight in to the “cache”.

Posted 22nd October 2007 at 3:30 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd October 2007.

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