Once in my hometown I got into a not very funny situation. It is necessary to start from afar and say that I have to admit that I suffer from "topographic cretinism", i.e. I simply do not remember routes and I am very poorly oriented on the terrain. Once I had to go alone to the country by car, the drama of the situation was also added by the fact that my driving experience at that time was approximately zero. It was, frankly, exciting, but I got to my destination quite successfully, but on the way back I got a little lost and stood in the middle of an open field, not knowing where to move my wheels further. "Nonsense!" — I thought, — "I have wonderful maps on the iPhone!" There were maps, but there was no Internet in a clean field, of course, the story ended well, fortunately, cars still passed by from time to time, and I found out the right way. But thanks to this journey, I also realized one important thing: my iPhone must have a good map that does not depend on the capricious Internet!
I chose MapsWithMe Pro — an application for iPhone, by the way, I have already included these maps in the list of 6 applications that can be useful to a traveler, and today I decided to make a more detailed review of them.
Why did I choose MapsWithMe Pro? Yes, on the advice of friends, as well as most of the applications that have settled in my phone. But in the end I was very pleased with him.
Firstly (and this was the main requirement), the application works without an Internet connection, accurately determining your location using GPS (really accurate, verified).
Secondly, the application works very fast. Maps are loaded really almost instantly. The developers in the description indicate that they achieved this result thanks to a special method of data compression. By the way, for the same reason MapsWithMe Pro takes up little space in the phone.
The next point that will come in handy when you are in a city, no matter your own or someone else's: the application contains information about cafes, hotels, attractions, cinemas and (yes, it surprised me), public toilets. You can also see all these useful data offline.
Places whose location you need to remember for some reason so as not to search again (for example, you liked the cafe) can be saved in bookmarks. Bookmarks can be grouped and each group can be marked with its own color. Another useful feature: you can share them with your friends by sending them by email, or transfer any places from other maps to MapsWithMe.
In general, I was once again pleased with my good choice: there are more than enough functions in MapsWithMe for such an application, the design is not overloaded with unnecessary elements and you can download a map of any country, so it's not scary to go on a long trip now!
Especially for the readers of Lifehacker, we asked the developers for several promo codes for the iPhone version of the application, thanks to which you can try it for free. To get one of them, you need to post a link to this article on your Twitter (just click the button at the bottom of the page), and leave a link to your tweet in the comments to this post. A day after the publication of this publication, winners will be randomly selected who will receive promo codes. And don't forget to fill in @ru_lh, we will send the codes in private messages on Twitter, which can only be sent to readers.
The following readers received promo codes: Ruslan Sharipov, Sashenka Lukyanenko, Dmitry Fedin, Hot Chocolate.
