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Roll Your Own iPhone Maps
It's definitely a handy hack to know if you have an iPhone and need your own custom maps with you. Of course these would be more useful if the iPhone had a GPS. PS - The Navizon's shareware GPS for the iPhone is OK, but too expensive. It is hit-or-miss for finding my location (great in SF) and doesn't offer any additional functionality like saving traces or waypoints. $25 is too steep for an application that I may not be able to use with the next update of the iPhone's firmware.
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Comments: 4
Emily [22 October 2007 03:29 PM]
In order to be accurate about the Navizon offering, you should add that they have offered refunds to people who weren't able to use it on their iPhone firmware:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=363488
So saying "$25 is too steep for an application that I may not be able to use with the next update of the iPhone's firmware" doesn't exactly reflect the real options that are available to the end user.
P.S. Navizon currently works on all versions of the iPhone firmware so I believe you're talking about hypothetical future releases.
Matt [22 October 2007 04:29 PM]
And why would you want to use it to find Southampton and the Isle of Wight?
Mikel [23 October 2007 11:12 AM]
Matt -- Both places are significant to OpenStreetMap. Isle of Wight was the first place completely "finished" in OpenStreetMap. And Southampton is home to our friends, the Ordnance Survey.
robin [10 June 2008 02:18 PM]
"Of course these would be more useful if the iPhone had a GPS." - And now iPhone have GPS. Nice