How can I use OpenStreetMap in my Compact Framework App?

Question

Does anyone know, how I can use OpenStreetMap inside my Compact Framework application? Is there a Framework or something like that? All I can find in their wiki is how to contribute to their project and to user their software to map data. But I want to use their maps to show the users location inside my own app. I could not find anything about using their web service or whatever I have to use to show their maps inside my application.

Solution

CloudMade provides APIs for embedding OpenStreetMap maps in many languages - but not .NET as of the time of writing. There are plain HTTP APIs for map tiles available that you could call from .NET programs, but this is of course fairly low-level.

The CloudMade APIs are designed for developers who want to embed OSM output in their projects, rather than the OSM API which is geared towards map creation, so I think you might be interested in the CloudMade stuff.

See http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects for more.