Good app with some minor annoyances
Ive been using this app for two months now while travelling around SE Asia. Overall its been very useful. It is clearly trying to be a "city" guide, which is fine, but it would be a great help if it could provide some major road coverage at a smaller scale to enable the user to get a sense of where they are when they happen to be between two existing map regions. Currently, if the user is situated between two map areas and they click on the "locate" icon, a message pops up saying you are outside the map area. This effectively prevents you from finding out where you are relative to the loaded map area, which can be very frustrating. The app also prevents you from zooming out beyond a predetermined minimum scale, which prevents you from seeing where you are relative to a chosen location. These are rather trivial problems to fix, so I trust these will be resolved in a future release.
The app allows you to mark items in their existing database, and to add pins of your own, enabling the user to group these markers into user-defined lists. Each list can be assigned a specific colour and/or symbol. This sounds great, but in practice its quite limiting. It would be far better to assign colour and symbol as attributes to every individual marker so that the user could create lists based on geographic location and freely assign colours and symbols as they see fit. For example, create a list called Hanoi, which would include hotels, restaurants, and sites in Hanoi, all with different symbology. Currently, all markers in one list have to have the same symbology. Also, there are only 5 symbols available, which is far too limiting.
The scale bar is problematic. It shows momentarily while squeezing and pinching, but then disappears. It would be better if this was a user configurable option, to enable constant display. In addition, even though the map changes scale in a continuous manner as you squeeze or pinch, the scale bar does not. Instead, it jumps from one scale to the next in quantized steps. In other words, unless you zoom in or out by a factor of two, the scale bar doesnt change at all, which is rather misleading.
Overall, the app works well, but its still in its infancy.
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