Thread: Maps for iPhone

Originally Posted by Mudnut

Due to the postings here, I have downloaded Metroview, and am amazed at it's value. At $18.99 it is a great Aussie program, fantastic!!! Will upgrade my offroad GPS soon, as I have trouble reading my Magellan black and white one (can't tell if it is a river, or road I am crossing, plus small screen). One of the problems of getting older

Cheers,

Ken

Do you need 3g connection to run it?

Will the maps be suitable for out West, eg no reception?

Originally Posted by Awest

Do you need 3g connection to run it?

Will the maps be suitable for out West, eg no reception?

The iTunes store description says no internet connection is required, all maps are stored in the app.

See MetroView Systems Pty Ltd

Originally Posted by Awest

Do you need 3g connection to run it?

Will the maps be suitable for out West, eg no reception?

I have had no problem in areas where there is no reception. Only once did it try and take me through a cane field where it said there was a road. On looking up the area on Google maps, it showed a road through the field, and crossing the Tully river were there is no bridge, so the mapping might be linked to Google maps for base mapping. Still fantastic value, and the iPhone 4 has great gps reception. Also no excess downloads have been noted, and I use it a lot.
Ken

It was one of the above posters that put me onto Metroview and its a great thing. It even shows some off road tracks, but for full on off road it would be good to have accurate topo software on it.

Cheers

Mud maps are doing an Easter special price for $49 bucks.

Originally Posted by mattyg

Bitmap

It's an iPhone app $5 developed by a Tasmanian guy.
You can use maps from Ozi Explorer or Hema or even scan paper maps.
A little fiddling is required to convert file types but the guy Nik offers very good and speedy support if you need help.

It will auto load maps and track your position, it will show waypoints to follow and you can leave a breadcrumb trail.

You can also import KML files from google maps (i.e.track waypoints from 4x4 earth or explore oz)

I'm not affiliated with this at all, but it seems to be a great cheap solution for people that have maps already and dont want to fork out $$$ for mudmap
etc.

I also use bitmap and very happy with it. Use oziexplorer map and also scanned paper map.

I use a few on the iphone4 which use the www.opencyclemap.org base maps which I find are pretty good.
ItopoMaps for land only very basic.
Otherwise NAVIONICS which is primarily marine charts but also uses the opensource maps which i find is very good. So you can use it out on the boat to tell you beacon id's, tide times amongst other things and you can also get a version for the ipad. Cheers Chris