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It was meant to happen, OpenStreetMap data has been ported to the iPhone. From the blog: "So it’s pretty easy to try it out. You’ll need to have jailbreak’d your phone (I used iBrickr, there’s plenty of other methods out there, even for 1.1.1). Download the maps tile cache db, and copy it over to your phone, using scp or whatever. The tile cache db is about 30 MB, so please only download if you’re going to try it. Also, I’ve had the Maps App crash occasionally when browsing the Maps, though nothing fatal .. so use at your own risk."
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