Schmap, publisher of over 200 free online travel guides, has opened access to their guides for iPhone and iPod Touch users by way of a remarkably nifty web application. The guides cover cities throughout the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and provide information on everything from the city’s historical background to the best places to get your drink on.
As portrayed in the image above, the web app utilizes the iPhone’s gyro sensors and a Safari specific Javascript function to determine how the device is currently oriented, and swaps between two display modes accordingly. If the device is oriented vertically, points of interest are displayed as a simple list; if horizontal, the points are overlaid on a map of the area. This allows the user to jump back and forth between modes without having to dig through menus, and is an ingenious way to make the most of the available screen real estate.
Just been playing about with it. REALLY nice web app.
does this app need a wireless connection for ipod touch
Can you send a letter to my wife explaining why I NEED one of these?
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Instant Bookmark. Very responsive and attractive web app. Could use some work on suburbs’ classification, but that should come with time.
so tempting, I wanna get one for myself too. Too bad Im living in asia country, heard that only this year end will launch in singapore.
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Spotcrime had a similar feature implemented three weeks ago.
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Very cool! Just saw it on a colleagues iPhone. Well done, and snappy too.
Very cool website and application. The content is on point too. A lot of “travel guides” have places that were cool to go to like 5 yrs ago. Schmap seems up to date.
nice idea to maximize real estate on the iphone – and it works well too! great job schmap
very cool application…one of the best free downloads I’ve seen in awhile….highly recommended,thanks techcrunch
Finally it is lunched. I had quite a big problem to replace all applications and tools from my old PDA. But now I think I’ve adjusted my iPhone to all my needs. Working as a West Toronto realtor there was just last application I was waiting for and I hope that the Schmap will easily fulfill all my expectations.
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