Lonely Planet Rome City Guide
By Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
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Description
Don’t want to feel like a barbarian at the gates? Now you can hold the Eternal City in your palm, with Lonely Planet’s Rome Cityguide on your iPhone. This really is the essential guide to one of the world’s great travel destinations: packed with independent views, reviews and local knowledge. From Trastevere to the Trevi Fountain, our two resident authors clocked up over 800 hours of research to bring you everything you need to know.
All we lacked to really bring this guide to life was the iPhone: need to know the best bars near the Piazza Navona? our comprehensive, interactive maps can pinpoint the places to be ; just arrived at Stazioni Termini, tired and hungry? sort the best hotels and restaurants by category and proximity, then click to ring or surf; stuck at the airport and want to get a sense of where you’re headed? our lavish images and in-depth history, culture, food and language chapters will set you right. And you can forget ruinous roaming connection costs: our Cityguides all work as stand-alone apps. Tutto Bene!
LONELY PLANET iPHONE CITY GUIDES
Imagine taking the world's favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the world's favourite guidebook has just arrived on the world's favourite phone.
• EASY TO USE - swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger
• OFFLINE MAPS – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom
• TONS TO SEE AND DO – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call
• TEXT SEARCH – whether you’re into ‘live music' or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable
• LOCATION-BASED NAVIGATION – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way
• WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS ... – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers
• PERSONALISATION – tailor your cityguide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’
• MONEY SAVING – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod
We'd love to hear your feedback, feature requests and ideas.
What's New In Version 1.2.4
iOS4 compatibility
Customer Reviews
Lots of potential but disappointing.
Just got back from Italy (Rome, Florence, Venice) and felt obligated to leave a review for others considering it. I'll leave the same review for Florence and Venice since the app's interface is identical, though the content obviously varies.
I really wanted to like this app, but found it terribly lacking in the interface design, mostly. I used it on an iPhone 3GS "offline" with location services turned on, but no cellular data plan enabled (to avoid the ridiculous $$ charges). Wi-Fi in Italy is expensive compared to the States so I didn't use it in that context. Here's a brief summary:
PROS:
• Restaurant reviews are solid / lots of great finds off the beaten path.
• Ability to save your "favourites" was handy (but no ability to annotate the fave).
• Content from the book (like historical background and travel tips) was personal, brief, and easy to read. Very comprehensive, as well.
• Map is mostly accurate, but could use an update (for Florence and Venice, especially). One of the islands by Venice was said to be "nearly abandoned"; instead it was an Italian Nantucket!
CONS:
• Map seemed decent until you had to use it. Horribly difficult just tapping on pre-selected points of interest. Pinch and zoom helped (sometimes).
• No ability to drop your own pins on the map. Would have been great for my own hotel or places I wanted to find again.
• The map "flag" for an individual location would appear in strange places away from the actual geographical location.
• Map filters (places to eat, shopping, point of interest, etc.) are a great idea, but often disappeared from the app and forced you to restart it
• All of the pre-selected sights had detailed info (phone & address) but NO photos linked to them. Sometimes you want to know what to look for.
Based on the last "con", I'd say invest in the much cheaper Rome 2Go app. It's based on Wikipedia, but it has a lot more info about the places you're seeing (including photos) and allows you to bookmark the sights. I didn't use the map on that app but it seemed decent.
Immediately Disappointing
Just downloaded this app with plans of using it next week in Rome. The map is overwhelming with 'stuff' so the logical 'filter' button is there in the upper left corner. This button, probably the feature that makes the app so potentially useful, causes all menu options to disappear and forces a restart...which doesn't solve the problem. Disappointing when an app fails within 15 sec of trying it out! My sense is that all their apps have the same issue as this issue is interface related.
- $5.99
- Category: Travel
- Updated:Jul 08, 2010
- Current Version:1.2.4
- 1.2.4 (iOS 4.0 Tested)
- 30.1 MB
- Language:English
- Seller:Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
- © 2010 Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
