OpenMaps Pro app for iPhone and iPad
4.9 (
6769 ratings )
Travel
Navigation
Developer:
IZE, Ltd.
2.99 USD
Current version:
4.6.4, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 01 Aug 2009
App size: 5.19 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 an 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.
Pros and cons of OpenMaps Pro app for iPhone and iPad
OpenMaps Pro app good for
Very easy to use and quick. No bugs identified. Just some location and route missing but it is natural as map data are free.
With automatic instruction change and vocal instruction for navigation I Will add the fifth star.
The dowload function for offline use is a killer feature. still there are some features missing which makes me rely on other apps (which sadly do not work in offline mode):
- no tracking mode
- no import or export either of created waypoints (so sad to lost them to iphone only) or future tracking (gpx)
- import of offline maps from computer like gmapcatcher or Mobile Atlas creator
- sharing of maps with other iphone app to avoid duplicating big data
- lock zoom level
This app has the look and feel of the google maps app. I really like openstreetmap because their maps often show more objects than google does: e.g. cycling or hiking tracks etc.
What I miss is a legend for the multiple OSM object tracks.
And: how do I set pins to use the already included track feature? Please provide a howto!
Go on developing this, Ive been looking for an OSM app for a long time!
It was delivered as an Update to my iTunes but could not be installed on my iPhone (oldes model, 3.1.3). At least the previous version survived the upgrade attempt.
Otherwise a superb app.
Very nice App for editing OSM. Poorly it isnt working since the last update. Hopefully it will Be fixed very soon.
This App works great! Last week we had a hiking tour through the south of germany to the lake constance and we even found the smallest paths in the woods. We never got lost on our route.
One thing would be a usefull addition: a graphical scale which shows you the current map scale to get an estimation of distances.
Anywhere, 5 stars for the good work!
Some bad moments
This app is now blocked on OpenStreet Maps.... Even the paid version which I own... Too bad for a paid app...
Very disappointed
This application is supposed to work offline but actually instead of downloading a vectored map it downloads tiles that you cant zoom in or zoom-out. If you try downloading all the tile corresponding a region it would use too much space on your device. Moreover you are discouraged to download tiles even for paid application
openmaps is a nice app to work with openstreetmaps. nice UI, everything is fine as long as you are online. Openstreetmaps contain more detail than google maps, at least in my trials.
problems are following:
offline map downloading is absolutely slow, unbearable, it only works with small towns. If you do it for a larger area, for me it is impossible. could take days.
in order to download, you have to specify the zoom level. the amount of data depends on the the zoom level, that goes from a few MB to 200 or 3000 MB. It is absolutely unclear which level you need to view eg. street names or POI icons.
online searching - if i search a location in my country(eg. germany), it always finds a similar name in the US and other countries and i get a display of the whole world map instead of the zoomed in location i am searching. i have to zoom in all manually. Google is much better on this point.
Download feature complicated,
- download only at one level of detail at a time
- area to download has to be chosen in "number of tiles". Would be nice to give an area in square kilometers
street names of chinese cities not in Latin letters
- thing western translations are available in open street map data
Permanently shows popups complaining that POI data cant be downloaded. Software quality very poor; should be pulled from the store.
Very bad apps. Not comparison with the ease and maps quality of Maps+.
I paid 2.29$ plus 3,49$ for absolutely nothing.
