Ordnance Survey maps on the iPhone/iPad
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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 13 Jun 2010 04:34 On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:03:26 +0100, matthew.sylvester(a)gmail.com (Matthew Sylvester) wrote: >Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> I feel they're missing a trick here, though - why not give us the 250k >> for free, then charge a fiver (or even less) for individual 25k regions? >> They've got no printing costs after all. At that price point I could see >> myself buying a *lot* of maps. > >OS mapping down to 25k is available on <http://www.bing.com:80/maps/> >but the interface is horrid on an iPad I already paid for a large quantity of the country on Memory Map (Windows flavours only) at 25k, for rather less than this. They've not got an iThing variant though, so all of that lovely data is only useful at home. Also, their downloadable maps are cheaper than RouteBuddy. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here, beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?" - Kenneth Patchen, "But Even So"
From: Danny T on 13 Jun 2010 06:13 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > I already paid for a large quantity of the country on Memory Map > (Windows flavours only) at 25k, for rather less than this. They've not > got an iThing variant though, so all of that lovely data is only > useful at home. Memory Map has an iPhone/iPad app which works rather well, offering some free mapping and then the ability to download and cache Explorer, Landranger and others as needed - rather than insisting on a whole sheet. The free app is fine for me, but if you pay £20 you can pull in any MM maps you've already purchased on Windows. Could be cost effective for you. The interface isn't 100% and like their website is clunkily Windowsy, but their model is better than Route Buddy's sadly. http://www.memory-map.co.uk/iphone/ -- Danny T
From: Rowland McDonnell on 13 Jun 2010 09:38 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: > > ><http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/routebuddy-ordnance-survey/id375929161?m > >t=8> > > > >244MB, free app. Not bad. Really not bad at all. > > Bleh, 250,000:1 scale is free, but rather more useful 25k:1 scale is > �25-�40 for a single area. And none of the single areas are Yorkshire, > so that's no blinkin' use to me. > > Ah, wait ... RouteBuddy Atlas allows loading of all the 25k and other > OS maps, but at �20 a pop, or !!�50 for the Yorkshire Dales region. �7 for a real paper 1:25k OS map. 3 for 2 offer on at the mo - so you can get three paper maps for about 2/3 the price of one electronic version. This is definitely the wrong way round, innit? The electronic ones should be the ones that are cheapest but at the moment, they're about four times the price (and less useful if on an iPhone/iPod/iPad, IMHO). <http://leisure.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/paper-maps/paper-maps-ordn ance-survey-great-britain> > And there's no address search. Mmm. > > Dammit. That's very annoying. Then again, OS maps don't have address-type information built in to them generally, do they? So if this e-map is from OS data... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jochem Huhmann on 13 Jun 2010 14:01 jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) writes: > <http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/routebuddy-ordnance-survey/id375929161?m > t=8> > > 244MB, free app. Not bad. Really not bad at all. I have been using OffMaps on my iPod touch for a while and it is rather fine (and free, too). This thing uses OpenStreetMap data which is a bit hit and miss but at least you can correct incorrect data if you want or add your own data if there's something missing. A very nice project to support and at least in my area the coverage is excellent meanwhile. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Dr Geoff Hone on 14 Jun 2010 03:06
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:38:48 +0100, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >snip >�7 for a real paper 1:25k OS map. 3 for 2 offer on at the mo - so you >can get three paper maps for about 2/3 the price of one electronic >version. > >This is definitely the wrong way round, innit? The electronic ones >should be the ones that are cheapest but at the moment, they're about >four times the price (and less useful if on an iPhone/iPod/iPad, IMHO). > snip> >Rowland. Publisher protecting profit margin. The February Computer Shopper ran a piece on this in connection with E-books. Geoff |