When the initial version of the Trailer iOS application came out in July, the companion web application at http://tl-trailer.appspot.com wasn't ready for use, and I released some command line scripts via Google Code to support generation of the .tqz files consumed by the iOS application.
The web application still isn't perfect, but it should be as good as or better than the scripting framework as a way of quickly setting up some .tqz files to use with the iOS app.
The scripting framework used Google's geocoding API, which is subject to terms of use including a requirement that geocoding information returned by it should be used for display of maps served by Google's infrastructure. While iOS5 is current, this requirement is satisfied on the iOS device, because the maps displayed by the iOS device will be based on Google's services. When iOS6 comes out in a few days, this requirement will no longer be satisfied, as the iOS6 mapping services will be serviced by infrastructure owned by Apple. For this reason, I've deprecated use of the scripting framework for the time being, although I plan to reinstate it at some time in the future when I have time to integrate an alternate geocoding source.
If any developers are interested in having access to the scripting framework code before I get round to reinstating it, please get in contact directly via email or via a comment on this post so that I can give higher priority to the work required to bring it back online.
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