OpenMaps Pro 2.0 - iPhone - iPod Touch - 323114547 Category: Navigation Author: IZE, Ltd. Vote(s): 16 Price: $2.99 Released: August 01, 2009 Version: 2.0 Download OpenMaps Pro Get OpenMaps Pro for $2.99
OpenMaps Pro - IZE, Ltd.
OpenMaps is an amazing map app to find out what's around you. It's based on Twitter and OpenStreetMap.org, the free wiki world map. It let's you check in to and share OpenStreetMap places with your Twitter friends and has some great & useful map tools like download maps for offline use, route directions and others.
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- AppJudgement, Revision3
Features
- Pinpoint your location on the map with a tap of a button.
- Use the digital compass to rotate the onscreen map to match the direction you're facing*.
- Turn off location services to reserve battery if you don't need them.
- Find out more info about places by simply tapping on their icons on the map.
- Search online for a location.
- Advanced users can add custom map types that they can browse.
- Download maps for offline use.
- Find out what people tweet around you or anywhere in the world by scanning the map for geotweets.
- Log in to Twitter to read your timelines and view your friends' tweets and mentions of you on the map.
- Send out checkin or comment tweets about OSM places and follow the recent Twitter conversation about them within the app.
- Do some basic edits to the map like editing tags, or even adding new places.
- Calculate the car, bike or pedestrian route with directions between any two locations with the help of online route providers CloudMade and YOURS**.
- Set transit points for the routes and bookmark the routes.
- Send feature requests and bug reports right within the app.
- Vote on these ideas and talk about them with other users, letting us know what your favorite ones are.
Follow @OpenMapsApp on Twitter for updates.
* Your device must have a digital compass built in in order for this feature to be available.
** YOURS online route provider has some limitations, such as no turn-by-turn directions, no support for transit point routing and long (> 200 km) routes. 2009-2011 IZE, Ltd.
OpenMaps Pro reviewed by Users
Great for seeing OpenCycleMaps and Caching offline maps Developer responds to feedback by improving the app and updating often, showing good support for customers.
Having access to the OpenCycleMaps is useful for planning urban cycling routes while out in the field and away from my PC. Cycle maps show streets and contour lines, making it possible to plan the least hilly route to my next landmark. Can't do that with the Googlemaps yet on the iPhone.
Car routing via pins is good now. Yes, search is completely worthless as is, but I hope a new search provider and results presentation layer is next. Or, simply remove the search feature until a search provider can be found and integrated. I'd say that for now the search icon space would better be served by an options screen with a link to much needed tutorial screens.
I find this app mainly useful as a way to bring openmaps with me because it simply has things Google does not. For search and routing, the stock Google app is fine.
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Version 1.4
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Sep 15, 2009
- OpenMaps Pro review by
Serendipityseeker
Potential I was okay spending money for this because it supports openstreetmap data. The map-cache ability is a killer feature; load times of saved map tiles is astounding.
Other features need some work still, but this is worth a look if you're like me and you do more quick-checks than destination-searches.
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Version 1.4
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Oct 4, 2009
- OpenMaps Pro review by
crookedsquare
Fast loading and simple First and foremost, if you think you are getting a $2 version of TomTom, you are sadly mistaken. This is a fast basic map viewer that caches maps for when you are out of cell range. It also has the advantage of being able to access maps that are, in some cases, much more current than Google. The openstreetmap project encourages people to add their gps tracks to flesh out the maps in areas where new roads are springing up faster than weeds. It's a project that I hope will take off, I've uploaded two tracks myself from the last two days.
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Version 1.3
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Sep 7, 2009
- OpenMaps Pro review by
Minhala
Quick and Slick! I grew up spending the weekends in the passenger seat of my dad's truck, navigating us to and from remote camping locations with a glovebox full of maps. Most of the time I launch Google Maps to see where I am or find an alternate route, I have to wait, and wait, and wait some more, for it to lock in, load all the tiles, maybe clear out an old search or directions, its a pain.But with OpenMaps, I hit the app, and boom, there it is, showing me where I am, and what's around me. And if I need to zoom in or out and flick around to find an alternate route, it loads faster than Google Maps, too.Sure, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Google Maps does (yes, it does do routes, but its a little awkward), but I don't need all of that all the time. For $1, this is a great, handy app. And before you take that one negative review too seriously, just remember... haters gotta hate.
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Version 2.0
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Oct 16, 2009
- OpenMaps Pro review by
cmdrquesadilla
OpenMaps gets better every update! Compass mode is awesome! The compass mode or course up map (map is oriented in the direction you're going) is very nice, it can be accessed instantly. As a matter of fact all the features can be accessed instantly, the user interface is very well done. What I also like in this update is the new map, the map interactions are even faster and smoother. By the way, I recommend using the two finger tap for zoom out and single finger double tap for zoom in, both can be used repeatedly: it is VERY fast. Pin management is pretty good, the deletion is easier now because of the red button :)Some of you complained about the search functionality. It seems that it's not the app's fault. I compared it to the openstreetmap.org's search and they both return the same set of results, so the problem is that openstreetmap.org's database isn't complete, not YET. So if you don't find something, you can edit the map yourself. As the openstreetmap.org's community grows, the map gets better, which is everyone's interest.This app gets closer to perfection every update: it now has compass mode, you can download maps, hence operation in offline mode, pin management, routing and search...
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Version 2.0
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Oct 13, 2009
- OpenMaps Pro review by
hatya
Needs to Update Map, very outdated at least 9 years I installed this app because of the high reviews and the fast map loading but as soon as i tested it out with my own address i immediately noticed that the map was very outdated from at least 9 years (map of the year 2000). I like the map features and the fast loading time but i will not be able to use it much unless it gets an overhaul update soon. Please update the map to the year 2009 at least and i will be happy and give it a higher rating.
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Version 2.0
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Oct 29, 2009
- OpenMaps Pro review by
Ymrl3630
Waste of money Search feature never returns anything accurate. I would not keep it even if it was free. 1.99 wasted.
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Version 1.4
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Sep 11, 2009
- OpenMaps Pro review by
contento1
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