Our GPS game “GPS Mission” is available for the iPhone 3G on the App Store. One of the more interesting features is its use of the Open Street Map (OSM). This may be a big advantage for our players in Eastern Europe, South Africa and Australia – where we don’t have a map on our other phone clients.  Now the only thing you have to do is buy an iPhone 3G :-(.

You can get GPS Mission - the game that uses the Open Street Map - from the App Store by following this link (for free).


Looking at other players.

If you don’t know the Open Street Map project, you should have a look at it at www.openstreetmap.org. It’s a community driven map that people create themselves. If you feel that the map is not good enough in your area, you could even enhance it yourself.

While the OSM may not be perfect in rural areas, it has great coverage in a lot of cities - and not only in Western Europe and North America.

What I like especially about the OSM is that it shows a lot of footpaths that you wouldn’t see on most of the other maps. Very useful for a game that is mostly played while walking!


Footpaths near Baden-Baden in the Black Forest

Another strong point is that the OSM community has collected maps for a lot of places that are not yet covered by the standard packages of most commercial providers (that we also use and will continue using because they have other great advantages).

Have a look at these maps of areas that we didn’t support before:


Belgrade, Serbia


Minsk, Belarus


Kiev, Ukraine


Cape Town, South Africa

So, if you live in one of those cities and feel as if you are missing out on mobile maps, check out GPS Mission on the iPhone 3G.

Our new map has full support for zooming and panning, just like the Google Map on the iPhone. It even shows the other players world-wide. To achieve this we are using the Open Source (New BSD License) component Route-Me.