OS Maps on iPhone

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Just came across this:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/iOSMaps---An-OS-Map-viewer-for-iPhone---and-it-is-free!-196.php

Has anyone had any success with it. I'm not sure if my next phone will be a windows mobile (like the XDA or Samsung) or an iphone.

I would like to have the feature of having OS Maps on a digital device, especially ones that let you plan the route using a post code. At present I have the Nokia 5800, I was thinking buying the Viewranger but as good as people say it is, its not 100% for me and expensive for what it is.

I have looked at the Road Angel Adventurer 7000 also but they are hard to come by and possiable out of date now.

Nigel
 
I wouldn't bother with the iPhone as a hard mapping system.

TomToms app is very good for a satnav, but the platform (iPhone) is no good a serious GPS device.

It's great for getting you around a jam on the M6, but its not stable enough with the GPS to locate you all the time, and if you're halfway up a hill or down some god forsaken lane, then the last thing you want is the signal to drop! There are dedicated products that do the job better.

With regards to that app, the reviews all say that the latest release has limited the tiles to 5 per session... which renders it useless as a map app!
 
Oh I meant to say, my opinion above isn't that of an Apple hater. You quite often get people tell you that anything on the iPhone is ****, because they hate the thing.

I have one and i bloody love it!:D
 
memory map have taken out a gps thing,the adventurer 2800 got 1 for ma xmas, but im fooked if i can get it to work, its only been out a month n ive been readin the support forum, once ya can get them workin they are seemingly the muts nuts, but at the moment i wouldnt recommend it to anyone
 
I use a PDA, Dell Axim X51V and a 'normal' laptop .. Dell has TomTom on it and Memory Map. The Laptop has Memory Map on it, and I view Tom Tom via the PDA and a small app called Mymobiler, both use a TomTom bluetooth GPS receiver

All work well.

Currently working on getting a smaller laptop to properly mount in the Disco as the current one with a 15" screen is a bit too big! .... if someone's got a smallscreen laptop they want to swap/sell cheaply post back ... ;)

I've used Google maps on the phone and a Java based app (Not an iphone) but neither worked well, certainly nowhere near TT or MM.

To my mind the mobile phone navigation thing is a bit of a sales gimmick, screens are too small for driving navigation but probably OK for walking/city navigation, in my opinion ... For me the PDA screen is too smal for the car really, hence why I want a smaller laptop, a widescreen fits, but not easily ... ;) Indeed I'm also thinking of selling the laptop I have (Samsung R40) and getting a Netbook, but know little of them as yet!
 
Paul D said:
I use a PDA, Dell Axim X51V and a 'normal' laptop .. Dell has TomTom on it and Memory Map. The Laptop has Memory Map on it, and I view Tom Tom via the PDA and a small app called Mymobiler, both use a TomTom bluetooth GPS receiver

All work well.

Currently working on getting a smaller laptop to properly mount in the Disco as the current one with a 15" screen is a bit too big! .... if someone's got a smallscreen laptop they want to swap/sell cheaply post back ... ;)

I've used Google maps on the phone and a Java based app (Not an iphone) but neither worked well, certainly nowhere near TT or MM.

To my mind the mobile phone navigation thing is a bit of a sales gimmick, screens are too small for driving navigation but probably OK for walking/city navigation, in my opinion ... For me the PDA screen is too smal for the car really, hence why I want a smaller laptop, a widescreen fits, but not easily ... ;) Indeed I'm also thinking of selling the laptop I have (Samsung R40) and getting a Netbook, but know little of them as yet!
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I take it MM displays byways too then?
Ive been after digital gps portable OS mapping that does turn by turn ..
 
Paul D said:
I use a PDA, Dell Axim X51V and a 'normal' laptop .. Dell has TomTom on it and Memory Map. The Laptop has Memory Map on it, and I view Tom Tom via the PDA and a small app called Mymobiler, both use a TomTom bluetooth GPS receiver

All work well.

Currently working on getting a smaller laptop to properly mount in the Disco as the current one with a 15" screen is a bit too big! .... if someone's got a smallscreen laptop they want to swap/sell cheaply post back ... ;)

I've used Google maps on the phone and a Java based app (Not an iphone) but neither worked well, certainly nowhere near TT or MM.

To my mind the mobile phone navigation thing is a bit of a sales gimmick, screens are too small for driving navigation but probably OK for walking/city navigation, in my opinion ... For me the PDA screen is too smal for the car really, hence why I want a smaller laptop, a widescreen fits, but not easily ... ;) Indeed I'm also thinking of selling the laptop I have (Samsung R40) and getting a Netbook, but know little of them as yet!
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i must say i am the same i find my ipaq hard to read unless i'm zoomed in.
my wife has a advent notebook (as a laptop for brousing its too small for my liking) she had a accident couple of weeks back and dropped it so we ended up getting 2 new laptops (mine was very old and slow) a friend has since said he can mend the notebook so that has a new home (hopefully) in me deepender :D
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
There is another app - qctviewer that allows yu to plot where yu are on memmap maps too.
Seems a good idea.....
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qctviewer looks good. it lets u download ya memorymap maps into the program, then it will track ur position on it. doesnt look like u can plan routes or leave a trace of where u just come from tho (i may be wrong). i aint got memorymap so i cant try it to let u know am afraid, but if someone supplies me with a copy i can :D
 
foss said:
I take it MM displays byways too then?
Ive been after digital gps portable OS mapping that does turn by turn ..
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MM displays OS maps ... ;)

I dunno of a gps software that does turn by turn, unless you input every turn as a waypoint and get it to point to the next waypoint, which I believe waypoint can do.
 
There is a very good app I have found, but downside is that each map square Of is mapping is £20. Which is a joke.

I've been using an app called "trails" recently. It doesn't use os mapping, but another opensource map, which oddly does seem to have alot of byways marked on it.

I don't use it as a mappig tool, but it will log everywhere you go, even with no phone signal. You can then email the log to yourself, and viiew it on os mapping using: bikehike.co.uk - Course Creator
 
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Quick update.....
For those peeps with memory map and an i-phone - ictviewer app allows yu to view mm files on an i-phone and record tracks. The latest version (1.5) is the dogs :)
 
I would just get the iPhone. Even if you did get lost you would still have something realy cool to play with ! Only people that haven't got one hate it.
 
a bit of a thread revival (only 7 years later!)

Memory Map still have an iPhone app - but there are a number more of these now: ViewRanger, UK Map, Outdoors GPS, RouteBuddy, MemoryMap etc. etc.

Just wondering what most folks here us, and which would be most recommended by you? :)
 
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