Description
✪ Honorable mention for Best Travel App and Best Navigation App in the 2011 Best App Ever Awards! ✪ ➤ Effortlessly access and edit your custom Google My Maps on a beautifully crafted vintage interface, with offline maps that work even without Internet access.
http://cartographer-app.com
http://youtu.be/H1CbO1zgNXY
Plan trips, and see all your marked places, routes and notes on a map while you travel, even without Internet access. Record where your hotel is, where bus stops are, or save restaurant recommendations from a friend.
The Cartographer works with Google My Maps: Tools that allow users to customize Google Maps with markers. Now you can do all your travel or errand planning on the desktop with Google My Maps, then sync your maps with the iPhone.
Share entire maps or individual markers with fellow travelers or friends and family back home.
Offline maps, with bulk downloading (using OpenStreetMap), let you avoid roaming charges and go places your mobile network doesn’t.
Not just for travellers! Make maps for marathons, band tour schedules, house hunting, or job hunting.
===== PRAISE FOR THE CARTOGRAPHER ======
The Cartographer is a beautiful app that does something you sure haven’t seen anywhere else on the iPhone. -- MacStories
It’s one of those rare apps that make you sit up and take notice at first, thanks to its unique design and emphasis on usability, but remains consistently useful by delivering features you’ll use often. -- VentureBeat
The Cartographer is a worthy addition to the traveler’s app arsenal. It’s beautiful and provides a unique feature set. -- Traveling Savage
...if you’re traveling anywhere that data access is unavailable or ridiculously expensive, you really REALLY want to have on your iPhone the Cartographer app -- Alex Curylo
FEATURES:
PLAN
Use the tools you're already comfortable with: Plan trips on the desktop with Google My Maps or using The Cartographer Clipper (http://cartographer-app.com/#clipper)
Plot a destination or a route on a map and save your notes with it, so that everything's all in one place.
Create rich, meaningful maps with 99 beautifully designed icons.
Search the map straight from your iPhone.
EXECUTE
Sync Google My Maps with the iPhone, effortlessly and totally automatically.
Avoid data and roaming charges with offline maps (using OpenStreetMap) - download the map in advance of your trip and take it with you.
Navigate to placemarks in Navigon, or use the inbuilt compass: Great for hiking!
Drag placemarks, edit titles and notes and publish changes to Google My Maps, on a beautiful and intuitive interface.
RECORD
Record your adventures: Save a placemark with your location at any time, even without an Internet connection.
Save recommendations from a fellow traveller, while you're on the road.
SHARE
Share your trip with friends and family via email and Twitter, or even embed your map on a travel blog!
Need to meet up? Share individual placemarks via email/Twitter.
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All this in a beautiful, elegant user interface evocative of a romantic past, when maps were works of art. The Cartographer combines vintage cartography styling with cutting edge technology. On the iPhone 4’s Retina display, The Cartographer flaunts stunning high-resolution graphics.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ATastyPixel
Demo video: http://youtu.be/H1CbO1zgNXY
The Cartographer runs on iPad and iPod Touch, but isn't designed for these devices. On non-GPS devices, positioning available only near some wifi spots. Positioning on first gen iPhone limited to cellular/wifi.
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The Cartographer is developed by a duo who love making great apps, and travelling. We are dedicated to responsive development and support. Please contact us with questions, bug reports, feature ideas, and other feedback at support@atastypixel.com or http://atastypixel.com/forum. We may be able to fix your issue in less time than it would take to write a negative review!
What's New in Version 1.4.13
Fixed offline map downloading stall issue
Tweaked Google login procedure
Some minor performance improvements when viewing offline maps
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Don
I spent hours creating a custom map in Google Maps for my upcoming vacation to Paris. In Cartographer I was hoping to find an app that would allow me to import that map to my iPhone and walk around with it as I visited Paris. I could look and see what else on my to-do list was nearby and that way pick a restaurant, a patisserie or other activity.
I used a wide variety of icons--not only different colors but also different shapes. On my Google Map I could look at an icon and immediately tell if a pin was a restaurant or a museum or a park or…. The variety of the icons is important. And useful.
When I imported my map into Cartographer the icons are transformed into Cartographers antique set and immediately I am disappointed. The colors are all muted/desaturated and the icons now look too much like each other. I now have to look very closely to tell which icon is which. All the colors are very washed out. And, the icons cover up a whole lot more than the Google icons because Cartographer has put them all on these little tab thingees. So, while the Google Map icon had just a picnic table for example, Cartographer has a picnic table on a bigger tab. So, it's covering up a whole lot more of the map.
Plus, the edges of the screen (on all four sides) are vignetted. I'm all for being artsy, but the iPhone screen is small to begin with. It really makes no sense to further minimize the amount of screen real estate by vignetting approximately ¼ inch on all four sides. Here art is interfering with function.
I'm going to keep looking for a new app. This isn't the one that is going to work for me. Too bad. Wish I had my $3.99 back.
- $3.99
- Category: Travel
- Updated: Apr 03, 2012
- Version: 1.4.13
- Size: 7.3 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: A Tasty Pixel
- © 2010-2011 A Tasty Pixel
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
