OpenMaps app for iPhone and iPad
4.0 (
4760 ratings )
Travel
Navigation
Developer:
IZE, Ltd.
Free
Current version:
4.6.4, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 10 Mar 2010
App size: 5.2 Mb
Browse the maps of OpenStreetMap, download them for offline use¤, edit the maps (tag editing and node creation), find out where you are, search for addresses, get directions and scan the map for tweets with OpenMaps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
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 youre facing*.
- Turn off location services to reserve battery if you dont 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¤. Note: Usage of the Download tool is strongly discouraged. You may get throttled and even banned from the map tile servers if you download abusively.
- 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.
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.
¤ Feature available via in app purchase.
Pros and cons of OpenMaps app for iPhone and iPad
OpenMaps app good for
It was the last issue to fix, the blue dot issue. It is great now!
Free, off line capability ( !!!!! ) use internal compass, many more. Great
The maps are more detailed and readable than with Google Maps, but they are not shown using the highest resolution on iPad 3.
Has stuff other maps dont. Such as trails and my university campus buildings.
—ever!
Not only does it use the best online mapping service—OpenStreetMap—but it is designed beautifully, integrates some of the best technologies such as integrated feedback voting and suggestions (ideascale), and contains a lot of power under the hood.
Did I mention its free?
森や山の小径までハッキリ判る唯一の地図アプリだと思います。MapTypeはOpenStreetMapがお勧めですね。
Very good app, it could replace the default map application.
The good: OSM, routes, POI!
The bad: non-intuitive interface (when I search for a street, map should not go to the world view just because there is a street with suitable name in the city 2000 km away from me, also it should be possible to drop a pin with press-and-hold, like in the Maps app), raster maps only, no turn-bu-turn navigation.
Some bad moments
another app that claims to be free and isnt. The free features just make it a cheap version of google maps, and obviously the only useful one is paid.
blue localisation spot is still missing (iPhone 4, iOS 5.1). so app has no function for me :-( please solve the problem quickly!
Could not ever get the view downloads function to work and thus wasted &1.99!!
I tried searching for an address and I kept getting a timeout error... I mean if its not reliable enough to find a simple address then whats the point?
Delete?!?!?!
After a frustrating evening of trying to figure out why I cant download the maps for offline, use, I came across this warning on the OpenStreetMap site:
"This tool results in heavy traffic for the OSM tile servers and is likely to be blocked."
And thats exactly what it is. You get map tiles that say ACCESS BLOCKED" Which is the opposite of a useful offline street map.
Until the developers fix this problem by service tiles legitimately, instead of in violation of the OpenStreetMap policies, this app is useless.
Do not buy.
This app hogs OSM servers and is blocked by the OSM. Dont waste your time with it!
