Maps

Historic Earth – Overlay Historic Maps on Modern Maps

October 26, 2009 by Brooke

Available In: App Store

Price: $5.99

Historic Earth is a unique mapping application that allows you to overlay historic maps on modern maps. The application uses the Historic Map Works, ” the world’s largest online collection of geo-coded historic maps,” database to find historical maps for cities and States around the United States.

Historic Earth allows you to map your current location, view features locations or search for a specific location.

Once a location has been found, you are given a list of the historic maps available for that specific location. When you select a map it will overlay the historic map on top of the current modern map. You can fade back a forth between the historic map and the modern map using the slider bar at the bottom of the page. This allows you to compare and contrast the two maps. You can also scroll, pan and zoom any map to explore it further. Quickly switch to the next map in the list by using the arrows at the top of the page.

If you are really looking for details… the information icon will give you the the date and title of the historic map as well as the exact Longitude and Latitude of the map.
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Filed Under: App Store, Historic Earth, Reference, videos Tagged With: App Store, Application, Compare, Historic, Historic Earth, iPhone, iPod touch, Maps, Modern, Overlay

Maps Enhancer – Keep Maps Cache and Adjust Zoom Level

August 3, 2009 by Brooke

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Maps Enhancer is an application that adds a few more options to the stock Maps app. Once installed, you can go into your stock Settings applications and you will find MapEnhancer.

The Maps Enhancer app adds the ability to keep your Maps cache and the ability to set the maximum zoom level for Standard, Satellite and Hybrid maps. The zoom levels range from 2 – 19, 2 being zoomed WAY out (I’m talking WAY out!) and 19 being zoomed in. You can also choose to go back to the default zoom setting. [Read more…]

Filed Under: BigBoss, Cydia, Maps Enhancer, utilities Tagged With: Cache, Change, Default, Keep, Maps, Maps Enhancer, Save, Set, Zoom

Weather Machine – Feature-Filled Weather App

July 8, 2009 by Brooke

Available In: App Store

Price: $3.99

Weather Machine is a very detailed and information loaded weather application. Honestly, this app might have too many features…if that is possible! I’m going to explain a few features of the app and then I will let you watch the demo video so that you can get the full feel of the app.

When the app opens, it will ask to find your current location. After it did this the first time, I actually shut this feature off in the Settings so that it didn’t ask every time I open the app…it is slow and it is not extrememly accurate.

Once the app is open, you will see the current weather conditions including the current temperature, feels like temperature, weather conditions, pressure, humidity, wind direction and wind speed. It you double-tap on the Current Weather screen, it will enlarge the screen and you will get the current visibility and dew point. If you tap on the arrows at the bottom of the current weather screen, it will scroll through surrounding cities. If you rotate the device into landscape mode, you will get a animated Satellite map of the current conditions, a current conditions map, a forecast map and an animated doppler radar map. [Read more…]

Filed Under: App Store, utilities, Weather, Weather Machine Tagged With: 3GS, 5, App Store, Application, Cities, Conditions, Day, Forecast, iPhone, iPod touch, Maps, Multiple, radar, Weather, Weather Machine, Week

Google Maps in Safari

June 4, 2009 by Douglas

So I got this Tweet last night about a web app version of Google Maps for the Palm Pre that works on the iPhone. Actually it works in my computer’s browser. What the computer browser doesn’t do is track my location. That’s right, I got this pop up when accessing the page in my 2nd Gen iPhone 3G running iPhone firmware 3.0 Beta 5 while in Safari:

I tested it on Brooke’s iPhone, which is a 2nd Gen iPhone 3G running iPhone firmware 2.2.1, and I got this: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, safari, Web Apps Tagged With: Google, html 5, Maps, safari

Firmware 3.0 Preview: Maps

May 22, 2009 by Douglas

So far, there are no changes to the Maps application for the iPhone. There are some other features that include maps that are new to the 3.0 Firmware though. First, developers can now integrate Google Maps into their application. This is part of the new developer APIs in the 3.0 Software Developer Kit. This should help with some sweet weather or real estate apps.

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Filed Under: Apple, firmware Tagged With: firmware 3.0, Maps