Ordnance Survey maps on the iPhone/iPad
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From: Dr Geoff Hone on 14 Jun 2010 03:19 On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 09:03:26 +0100, matthew.sylvester(a)gmail.com (Matthew Sylvester) wrote: >Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > snip > >OS mapping down to 25k is available on <http://www.bing.com:80/maps/> >but the interface is horrid on an iPad And the search function is pretty naff on anything. Quick test gave three out of four wrong or useless. I must try it on a US address or two - should be better but with Micro$haft you never know Geoff
From: Jon B on 14 Jun 2010 07:15 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:30:09 +0100, 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. > > And there's no address search. Mmm. > Think ViewRanger is the more official version. �15 for the App and �20 pop for the maps then. For my lesser use I'm using MotionX with the free open mapping you then download at home, for offline use when out & about. This is assuming of course you remember before you go out, and don't find yourself in the carpark next to where you are about to go with no signal... -- Jon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 Jun 2010 08:37 On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:15:45 +0100, black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com (Jon B) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:30:09 +0100, 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. >> >> And there's no address search. Mmm. >> >Think ViewRanger is the more official version. �15 for the App and �20 >pop for the maps then. Terrible pricing for the maps. 3-4 times paper retail is just silly. >For my lesser use I'm using MotionX with the free open mapping you then >download at home, for offline use when out & about. This is assuming of >course you remember before you go out, and don't find yourself in the >carpark next to where you are about to go with no signal... That's what I do - and I only just found the "describe a circle, download maps in it from x to y magnification and cache them" function. Superb. I've bagged the whole of Yorkshire and it only takes a couple of hundred meg. But I *really* want my OS 25k maps on the iPhone! I have been known to screenshot them and upload them as images, for smaller loop-walks. Cheers - Jaimie -- "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky, University of California
From: Jon B on 14 Jun 2010 08:41 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:15:45 +0100, black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com (Jon B) > wrote: > > >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:30:09 +0100, 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. > >> > >> And there's no address search. Mmm. > >> > >Think ViewRanger is the more official version. �15 for the App and �20 > >pop for the maps then. > > Terrible pricing for the maps. 3-4 times paper retail is just silly. > Yep, I'll stick with the OL1/OL24 papers here & the photocopier (cough). Just take an A3 sample of where going and bung it in a zip bag. Full OL in the bag when going on a proper walk. > >For my lesser use I'm using MotionX with the free open mapping you then > >download at home, for offline use when out & about. This is assuming of > >course you remember before you go out, and don't find yourself in the > >carpark next to where you are about to go with no signal... > > That's what I do - and I only just found the "describe a circle, > download maps in it from x to y magnification and cache them" > function. Superb. I've bagged the whole of Yorkshire and it only takes > a couple of hundred meg. > Must do that for Derbys/Notts to when I get time... > But I *really* want my OS 25k maps on the iPhone! I have been known to > screenshot them and upload them as images, for smaller loop-walks. > That sounds like a reasonable get round for now, depending on how badly the phone compresses them for uploading to the albums. -- Jon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 14 Jun 2010 09:54
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:41:06 +0100, black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com (Jon B) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:15:45 +0100, black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com (Jon B) >> wrote: >> [MotionX on iPhone] >> >> That's what I do - and I only just found the "describe a circle, >> download maps in it from x to y magnification and cache them" >> function. Superb. I've bagged the whole of Yorkshire and it only takes >> a couple of hundred meg. >> >Must do that for Derbys/Notts to when I get time... A moment to do, and hours to download! Fortunately being in MotionX it disables the locking, otherwise it'd be really tedious. Taking the 1-16 scale maps multiplies your data set by four compared to getting 1-15 scales, so I didn't bother with the 16. >> But I *really* want my OS 25k maps on the iPhone! I have been known to >> screenshot them and upload them as images, for smaller loop-walks. >> >That sounds like a reasonable get round for now, depending on how badly >the phone compresses them for uploading to the albums. For the original iPhone, transferring sizeable maps (say 5meg) via iTunes compresses them too much and effectively breaks them. Getting them over by any other method crashed every viewer I could find, both Apple and other. On the 3GS, no problem at all doing it through iTunes, no extra compression. Most odd. I know it has more memory, but even so. Cheers - Jaimie -- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei |