MapQuest 4 Mobile – I’ve always been a fan and user of MapQuest  but I don’t think AOL’s MapQuest 4 Mobile offers any more functionality than many other apps that use maps to help you find nearby eateries, hotels, discounts and so on.
That’s not to say MapQuest 4 Mobile isn’t a competitive offering, because it [...]

MeetWays—There’s a lake in central Massachusetts, not too far from where I live, called Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, which is said to be one of the world’s longest place names.
The locals say it means, “You fish on your side, and I fish on my side, and no one fishes in the middle.” However, according to an entry [...]

Google Maps was already one of the strongest built-in apps on the iPhone. But with the 2.2 software update the addition of Street View and the ability to get public transit information make this almost a necessity for traveling or getting around a major city.
So there was only one way to give it the ultimate [...]

There’s not much you can say about Masayuki Akamatsu’s Compass Free because it just doesn’t do much. Actually, it doesn’t do anything. Launch the app and you get an image of a compass with a shaded area that runs from the edge of the screen to the center of the compass. The shaded area’s position [...]

 
As of last night the ultimate interactive map and the ultimate interactive phone are now linked. Google Earth is available as a free download for iPhone and iPod Touch.
Having Google Earth at your fingertips anytime, anywhere is cool enough. But the good folks at Google have also added a tilt feature that uses the accelerometer. Autotilt [...]

The idea of “Take Me to My Car” is great: record your GPS location, go somewhere, and get a map back to where you started. In practice, however, the Free App by independent developer Eldar Sadikov falls short of this promise.
The two major problems of the app are the extremely slow response times and the [...]

Where To is a nice front end intended to make your iPhone or iPod Touch act more like a portable GPS such as the TomTom or Magellan. It’s basically a slick user interface for the Google Maps function already built into the iPhone. But underneath this simple explanation Where To is an awesome time-saving adventure starter.

Note: This post is an update of an earlier post where we were a little too harsh on the app. Also, in the interim, Earthscape has reduced its price to Free (with the “for a limited time only” caveat). Thanks to our readers for pointing this out.
“Earthscape”, is best described as a Google Earth knockoff [...]