Washington DC Offline Street Map app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Networking 2.0
First release : 24 May 2009
App size: 37.7 Mb
This app allows you to browse street level map of Washington DC when you are traveling. You dont need to have internet connection for this to work as the map is stored on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Ideal for saving roaming charges or having to find the local wifi to access the built-in map application.
You can pinch to zoom in and out of the map just like you can with the built-in map application.
We are currently building and field testing support for GPS and this will be released as a free update soon. Stay tuned.
The source of the map is from Open Street Map, http://openstreetmap.com/ under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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Latest reviews of Washington DC Offline Street Map app for iPhone and iPad
This map is handy but I really wish it had the metro stops on it. For some reason one or two are on there but the rest are missing. So if it gets that it will be perfect. The zooming function is nice and works flawlessly. All in all a nice little application.
Be warned--this is only a map. No interaction at all, no typing in any point of interest.
This app is getting removed from my iPod after only having it for a few minutes. I am very offended that the East section of the city (listed as a sub-section within "Districts") is described as poor and neglected. The Southeast quadrant of Washington DC is commonly referred to as Anacostia, when this in fact is not true. Anacostia is only ONE of many neighborhoods located in Southeast. All of the neighborhoods are not poor and neglected. Some of the most beautiful homes and communities exist on this side of town --- the neighborhoods of Hillcrest, Fort DuPont, Randle Highlands and Fairfax Village just to name a few. This app would be so much better with a change in the description of language of the local neighborhoods. Those who live in DC, the surrounding metropolitan area and visitors to the city need to be educated of the FACTS and not the myths.
The map is unusable because every time I try to zoom in to read it the map and see more detail it either zooms in too close or pans all the way out. This is on the iPhone 4S. Makes it pretty much worthless. This needs to be fixed.
Zoom is horrible - keeps jumping back out. Makes map useless. I think this worked better in previous versions; a real disappointment.