Review of free map services for iPhone and iPad. Survey. Which maps for iPhone are better?

Maps on iPhone

Using Maps, you can view street plans, satellite photos, switch to hybrid viewing mode, and view street views in a wide variety of cities around the world. Besides. You can get detailed driving or walking routes and traffic flow information. Find and track your current location (approximately) and use it to get directions from one point to another. With a built-in digital compass, you can always find your direction.

Important: The maps, digital compass, directions, and location navigation provided by Apple rely on data and services from third parties. These data services are subject to change and may not be available in all geographic areas and as a result maps, directions and location information may be unavailable, inaccurate or incomplete. Compare the information provided by iPhone with your surroundings, and if there are any discrepancies, give preference to the signs.

If Location Services is turned off when you launch Maps, you'll be prompted to turn it on. Maps can be used without turning on Location Services. See Location Services 25.

Search and view locations

You can search for places, get current information, pin places, get satellite images, and view streets in Google Street View.

Search for forest locations

You can search in many ways - for example, by address, intersection, area, landmark, bookmark, contact or postal code.

Find a location and view a map.

1 Tap the search field to display the keyboard.

2 Enter an address or other search information.

3 Click Search.

The location is indicated by a pin. Click on a pin to see the name or description of the location.

Locations may contain POIs added by Google My Maps users (user-generated content) and sponsored links in the form of special icons (eg.

View the location of a contact's address.Tap in the search field, then tap Contacts and select a contact

To locate an address in this way, the contact must contain at least one address. If your contact has multiple addresses, you should select the one whose location you want to locate. You can also find the location of an address by typing it directly into Contacts.

Finding your current location

Find your current (approximate) location with one tap on the map.

Determining your current location and turning on tracking mode.

Click

Your current placement is marked with a blue marker. If the location cannot be accurately determined, a blue circle appears around the marker. The size of the circle depends on the accuracy of the location - the smaller the circle, the higher the accuracy.

As you move, iPhone updates your location, adjusting the map so that the location indicator remains in the middle of the screen. If you tap again to deselect or drag the map, iPhone continues to update location information but stops centering it, so the location pointer may move off the screen.

iPhone uses location services to determine your location. Location services use information that is available on the cellular data network, local Wi-Fi networks (if Wi-Fi is turned on), and GPS (GPS is not available everywhere). When an app is using Location Services, a^ icon appears in the status bar. (Location Services service is not available in all countries or regions.)

If Location Services is disabled, you will be prompted to enable it. If these services are disabled, you cannot determine or track your current location. See “Location Services” 5.

To save battery power, turn off Location Services when not in use. From the Settings menu, select General > Location Services.

Get information about your current location.Tap the blue marker, then tap If possible, iPhone displays the address of your current location. This information can be used for the following operations:

Receive instructions for the route;

Adding a location to contacts;

Sending an address by email or MMS;

Set a bookmark for this location;

Determining direction.Tap again (The icon will change to ) Maps uses a built-in digital compass to help you find your direction at all times. The angle shows the accuracy of the compass readings - the smaller the angle, the higher the accuracy.

Maps uses geographic north to determine your current coordinates, even if Magnetic North is selected in Compass. If the compass needs to be calibrated, the iPhone prompts you to move the phone and "draw" the number eight in the air. If there is interference, you may be prompted to move away from the source of interference. See Chapter 20, "Compass," 83.

Marking a place on a map with a pin

You can use a pin to mark the location manually.

Marking a place on the map.Long touch a location on the map.

A pin will appear on the map where you touch.

Moving a pin.Long press and then move the pin to a new location or long tap elsewhere until a new pin appears replacing the previous one.

Satellite imagery and street view mode

To view the map, you can select a satellite view or a combined street map and satellite view. Places can also be viewed in Google Street View.

View in satellite image mode or hybrid mode. Click

then select Satellite or Hybrid to view a satellite image or a satellite image combined with a street map.

To return to map view mode, click “Map”.

View an image of a location in Street View.Touch To rotate the panoramic view 360°, quickly move your finger left or right on the screen. (The inset shows the current view.) To move along the street, click the arrow. To return to map view mode, click the map inset in the lower right corner.

Provides step-by-step views of driving routes, public transport, or walking routes leading to your destination.

Receive route instructions.

1 Click Routes.

2 Enter the start and end points in the Start and End fields. By default, iPhone starts displaying information from your approximate location (if available). Click in any of the Bookmarks, Recent, or Contacts fields to select a location (including the current placement and installed pin, if any). If not displayed, delete the contents of this field.

For example, if your friend's address is in your contacts list, you can tap Contacts and tap your friend's name instead of typing their address.

To change the direction to the opposite, press

3 Tap Route (if locations are entered manually), then select a driving route, a public transport route, or a walking route

Available travel options vary by route.

4 Do one of the following:

To view all routes in the listclick then select "List". Click on any object in the list to see a map with that area. Tap Route Review to return to the review screen.

To view the route step by steptap Start, then tap to display the next section. Click to return.

When traveling by car or walking, the approximate distance and time required are displayed at the bottom of the screen. If there is evidence of heavy traffic, the travel time is adjusted.

If you're using public transportation, the overview screen shows every leg of your trip and how you'll travel, including parts you'll have to walk. The top part of the screen displays: the time of arrival of the bus or train at the first stop, the estimated time of arrival at the final destination and the total cost of travel. Click "to set departure or arrival times and select a schedule. Click the icon on a stop to see the departure time for that bus or train, as well as a link to the carrier's website or contact information. When you click the "Start" button and view the route step-by-step in The top of the screen displays detailed information about each leg of your trip.

To build a route, you can also find a place on the map, tap the pin pointing to it, tap it, and then select “Here” or “From Here.”

Switch start and end points to change direction

to the opposite. Click

If not displayed, select Edit.

Display recently viewed routes.Click in the search field, then select Recent.

Displaying traffic information

You'll be able to see traffic data for major streets and highways if that data is available for your area.

Show or hide traffic information.Click then choose Show Traffic or Hide Traffic.

Highways are color coded based on traffic volume.

If you can't see traffic information, you may need to zoom out to a level that shows major routes. Traffic data is not available in all regions.

Search for companies and their contact information

Search for a company in the area.

1 Find a location—such as a city, country, or street—or scroll to a location on the map.

2 Enter your occupation in the text field and click Search.

Places matching your search will be marked with pins. For example, if you find your city on the map, and then type “cinemas” and click “Search”, the city cinemas will be marked with pins.

Click on the pin associated with the company you are interested in to view its name and description.

Search for a company without first searching for a location.Enter, for example,

Restaurant san francisco california

apple corporation new york

Contact the company or get directions.Tap the pin that's tagged with the company, then tap the i" next to the name.

Now you can do the following:

Dial a phone number to make a call, enter an email address to send a letter, or enter a website address to visit.

To get directions, click “Here” or “From Here”.

To add a company to your contacts, tap the Add to Contacts button at the bottom of the screen, then tap New Contact or Add to Contact.

Send business location information via email or text message.

View a list of companies found in your search.Tap List on the Map screen.

Click on a company to view its location. Or click _ next to a company to view information.

Sharing location information

A place found on the map can be added to your contact list. Google Maps location links can also be sent via email or MMS.

Add a location to your contacts list.Find a location, tap the pin pointing to it, tap next to the title or description, select Add Contact at the bottom of the screen, then select New Contact or Add to Contact.

Email a link to a location on Google Maps.Find a place, tap the pin pointing to it, tap i next to the name or description, then select Map Link at the bottom of the screen and tap Email.

Send a link to a location on Google Maps using MMS.Find a location, tap the pin pointing to it, tap next to the name or description, then select Map Link at the bottom of the screen and tap MMS.

Bookmark locations

You can bookmark a location you want to find later.

Bookmark a location.Find a place, tap the pin that points to it, tap _ next to the title or description, then select Bookmark at the bottom of the About screen.

View a place that you have bookmarked or viewed recently.

Tap in the search field, then select Bookmarks or Recent.

Yandex has released the next version of the Yandex Maps application. The main innovation and advantage over Google map is the ability to save city maps in the phone’s memory, i.e. Now you can work with the map without connecting to a mobile network or the Internet. This significantly speeds up working with the application and will also save traffic for those who are not subscribers of Megafon, Beeline or Kyivstar.

In the latest version of Yandex.Maps 4.5.1, you can save maps for 41 cities in Russia and Ukraine for offline viewing. For each city, overview and full versions are available for download, differing in detail. The review version contains fewer scales, so it is an order of magnitude lighter than the full version. Maps of some cities are presented as diagrams, i.e. official Yandex maps, and some cities also have popular maps. People's maps are a special Yandex service. It allows users online, using simple tools, to draw maps of places known to them, to mark houses and transport stops, to mark vacation spots and interesting objects.

When working with Yandex.Maps in offline mode, map zoom works, but street search does not work. But when you connect to the Internet, traffic will be spent only on plotting a route, searching for addresses, but not on downloading the map itself.

Cities whose maps can be downloaded for offline viewing:

Angasrk, Artem, Barnaul, Belgorod, Berdyansk, Veliky Ustyug, Volzhsky, Vyazniki, Glazov, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Yekaterinburg, Zaporozhye, Yoshkar-Ola, Izhevsk, Ilyichevsk, Kazan, Kamyshin, Kemerovo, Kiev, Kramatorsk-Slavyansk, Krasnoarmeysk, Krasnoyarsk , Crimea, Kurgan, Leningrad region, Lvov, Magnitogorsk, Melitopol, Minsk, Moscow, Moscow region, Nezhin, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk, Odessa, Orenburg, Prokopyevsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, St. Petersburg, Sarapul, Saratov, Sumy, Surgut, Tambov, Tomsk, Uglich, Ulyanovsk, Usolye-Sibirskoye, Ussuriysk, Ufa, Kharkov, Cherepanovo, Chita

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Your cards

If the city you need is not on the Yandex list, you can add the missing maps to the application yourself. To do this, you need a jailbroken iPhone and any file manager to work with it.

The map cache file needs to be placed in the folder: /var/mobile/Applications/....identifier. from numbers and letters..../Library/Caches/YandexMaps/ .

A large collection of material for Yandex Maps is collected here.

The mobile Yandex Maps caches downloaded from there need to be converted into a format for the Apple iPhone. This is done by the program "I, Cash", which runs Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, can be downloaded here.

Or by program YandexCache for Windows. You can download the program and instructions for using it using the link.

You can also make the necessary maps yourself using the program SAS Planet.

We all go or go somewhere every day. We all have some purpose. Whether we go to work, on a visit, go on business to the other end of the city, or even travel - we all want to get to the place we need with maximum efficiency and minimal time expenditure.

Navigators come to our aid with this. Finding ourselves in an unfamiliar place or city, we can ask locals how to get where we need to go, or simply use a navigator. Navigation makes any journey easier.

And what could be better than a navigator that you can install on your iPhone! In order not to carry a bunch of unnecessary gadgets with us, it’s easier for us to download the application. There are a huge number of navigation programs for iPhone. They can be paid or free, and can be both offline and online.

Types of navigator applications

There are navigators with maps built into the program, and there are separate applications. All of them are equipped with voice prompts to ensure that motorists or cyclists do not get distracted from the road.

Built-in and separate

• Built-in are navigators that are located inside the map program, i.e. a standard application Cards from Apple and
• Standalone navigation apps are completely standalone apps. Among the popular ones it is worth noting Navitel, Yandex.Navigator, 2GIS And Sygic: GPS.

Paid and free

Navigators, like any programs from App Store can be paid or free. There are two types of paid ones:

• First view. You bought the application and paid only once when you purchased it.
• Second view. The application is shareware. Conditionally because you need to pay for a subscription. Subscription can be for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months.

Offline and online

• To plot a route, some navigators require a constant connection to the Internet. The advantages of such iPhone applications are that they require significantly less space in the device's memory and they are a little more accurate.
• Offline navigators are better because you don’t need an Internet connection; only the GPS module of your iPhone is used for navigation. But for such navigators it is necessary to load maps into the device’s memory in advance.

Review of existing applications

Let's look at different types of navigators in order to understand their pros and cons.

There is also an interesting feature: the route can be plotted using public transport. Here the navigator will show you which bus, trolleybus or tram route to take. Where to change to metro or minibus. Google Maps has a nice and intuitive interface. An Internet connection is also required for navigation.

There is a choice of means of transportation from the metro and electric trains, to river trams and funiculars. There is also an interesting feature called “Shopping Center Navigator”. Since shopping centers these days are small towns, this feature is very useful in order not to get lost in a giant store.

Let's summarize. If you travel a lot and it is not possible to use the Internet everywhere, then you should choose offline navigators. Navigation in offline mode is less accurate, but not much inferior to applications using the Internet. Ideally, for the most accurate navigation, you need to use the Internet and the GPS module built into the iPhone.

Another detail is Night mode. At the moment, this mode is implemented in almost all navigators in order to make it easier to read information at night. Whether you prefer paid or free is your choice. It is best to have applications like and Maps.Me. So, you will have both offline and online navigation.

But keep in mind that in navigation mode, the phone's battery will be consumed quickly. Don't forget to charge your iPhone often and good luck on your travels!

Living in a more or less large populated area, it is very difficult to do without navigation tools. What can we say if you live in a metropolis. That's why you should definitely have one of the navigation apps for your iPhone on hand.

One of the first navigators for smartphones to implement offline maps, so you don’t have to go to the Internet to find point B. But 2GIS is not just mobile maps, it is also an extremely informative reference book, comparable to the Yellow Pages. Find a nearby place to eat? No problem. Moreover, if you want to book a table, in 2GIS you will find out not only the address, but also the opening hours, as well as contact information.

The peculiarity of the application is that the first time you launch it, you will in any case need to download offline maps for your city, that is, 2GIS simply does not work online. When building a route, 2GIS takes into account how you will get there: on foot, by public transport, taxi or personal car. For each case, one or more shortest possible routes will be selected.

Yandex maps

And if 2GIS allowed you to work with offline maps from the very beginning, then in Yandex.Maps this opportunity appeared quite recently. But this does not make the application worse, since thanks to the ability to work online we receive a lot of useful information. For example, if you travel by land, it is important to know the current condition of the roads. The application will show the level of traffic congestion on your route and, if necessary, select a route to avoid traffic jams.

As in the case of 2GIS, the route is formed based on how you plan to get there. Moreover, if you want to take a taxi, you can immediately see the cost of the trip from the application, and also call Yandex.Taxi literally in one click. And when getting to your destination for the first time, you will certainly be pleased with the opportunity to virtually walk through the city streets using the function "Augmented Reality".

Yandex.Navigator

If Yandex.Maps is a universal application for creating any type of routes, searching for organizations, viewing their operating hours and contact information, then Yandex.Navigator is an indispensable assistant for motorists. It’s not difficult to arrive at your destination using the most optimal route - all you have to do is follow the tips on the navigator maps. And so that you don’t miss the right turn, the auto-informer will tell you in advance where you should go.

The capabilities of Yandex.Navigator can be listed for a very long time, here are just the main ones: speed control (you can set your own parameters), notification of speed cameras, display of traffic jam levels, offline work, "Talkers", where drivers can share information about road conditions in specific areas. A nice bonus will be different voices for the informant; for example, recently users have the opportunity to hear tips from Darth Vader, Optimus Prime, Master Yoda and many other famous characters. If you have a car, then this navigator must be installed.

Navitel Navigator

Next up is another car navigator for iPhone. If you are an experienced motorist, then you have probably heard about such a well-known company as Navitel, whose maps were once installed on almost every navigator. If we talk about the application for the iPhone, here the developers pay attention to the interface at the last moment, which cannot be said about the functionality.

For example, the most significant advantage of Navitel is its coverage area: if you are an avid traveler, you will be pleased with the fact that it works great throughout Europe, Asia and America, and the navigator operates offline (but you should take into account the impressive weight many cards). Among other features, it is worth highlighting a convenient search for important organizations, displaying the level of traffic jams, providing a detailed weather forecast, speed control, as well as searching for and adding friends.

Google Maps

One of Google's most significant services is Maps. If previously the Google application was much inferior to the Yandex solution (largely due to the low detail of the maps even in large cities), now they are approximately equal, but Google has several notable options that its competitor does not have.

For example, when you use Google Maps for a long time, you will probably be interested in viewing the places you have visited. If you need your loved ones to know where you are at the moment, activate the geodata transfer function. No internet access? No problem! Just download offline maps first and use them at any time, wherever you are.

MAPS.ME

An indispensable app for travelers. When you decide to visit a new country, do not forget to download the region you need in order to use MAPS.ME without access to the Internet.

The main features of MAPS.ME include selection of entertainment in the selected region, formation of routes (unlike other mapping applications for iPhone, there is the ability to create bicycle routes), convenient search for establishments by category, instant saving of placemarks, sending the current location to friends and much more. other.

Each of the presented iPhone applications has detailed and constantly updated maps, but at the same time, they are very different, having their own unique capabilities. We hope that with our help you were able to choose the ideal offline cards for yourself.

Maps is one of the most popular stock apps in iOS. Navigation on smartphones and tablets is a very useful feature in mobile devices that allows you to comfortably and quickly find your way to the right places, buildings and addresses. However, in addition to the built-in iPad application, there are several other high-quality and convenient navigation applications, including offline maps for iOS.

Popular iOS maps

Google Maps. This is the most popular application among all iOS cards, which is installed on almost every iPhone and iPad. A high degree of detail, pedestrian and car routes, a useful Street View function (viewing streets in photos) - all this makes the Google application the most popular among users of mobile devices not only with iOS, but also with other operating systems.
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Yandex maps. The topographic service developed by Yandex is considered the most optimal option for Russian users of mobile devices with iOS. Yandex iOS maps can work offline, have a wide range of useful functionality, are distinguished by detailed depiction of terrain and other advantages. Yandex iOS maps are worth downloading for every owner of an Apple device, since it is impossible to find more detailed information about Russian settlements in any other service. The application is updated regularly, and you can download it absolutely free. The application can also be used.
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2 Gis. Although this map service contains a relatively small number of cities, the information provided about each of them is absolutely complete and does not need any correction. The names of organizations, their addresses and telephone numbers, as well as routes to them are very convenient for many business people. The application is at the stage of active development, which promises it very great prospects.
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Navitel. These iOS offline maps are also very popular among users of Apple mobile devices, but they have a rather ambiguous reputation: some users are delighted with them, while others do not want to hear about the service. Among other things, the application is paid; for maps of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus you will have to pay about 2,000 rubles. Surprisingly, terrain plans of European countries are several times cheaper.
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City Maps 2Go— offline iOS maps that will help every travel lover. The service is constantly updated with new cities, providing users with information about their institutions and attractions.