Rome Map & Walks (F) app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: GPSmyCity.com, Inc.
First release : 05 Jan 2010
App size: 125.91 Mb
Lose Yourself Without Getting Lost.
This handy application presents you several self-guided city walks, featuring the best of the city. It comes with detailed walk route maps and powerful navigation features enabling you to see the best of the city. No need to hop on a tour bus or join a tour group; now you can explore all the city attractions on your own, at your own pace, and at a cost that is only a fraction of what you would normally pay for a guided tour.
Sightseeing walks included in this application are:
* Historic Venues (6 sights)
* Ancient History Sites (9 sights)
* Vatican Tour (10 sights)
* Monti and Celio Walk (12 sights)
* Trastevere Walk (8 sights)
* Trevi and Colonna Walk (11 sights)
* Pigna & SantEustachio Walk (5 sights)
* Holy Sites (7 sights)
* Campitelli & StAngelo Walk (14 sights)
* Pinciano Cultural Walk (8 sights)
* Museums Walk (10 sights)
* "Roman Holiday" Tour (13 sights)
* Old Rome Walk (11 sights)
* Esposizione Universale Roma (9 sights)
* Gift & Souvenir Shopping (9 sights)
* Colosseum to Pantheon Walk (16 sights)
* Campo Marzio Walk (7 sights)
* Old Rome Nightlife Tour (7 sights)
Discovery walks included in this application are:
* Prati Shopping
* Campo Marzio Shopping and Antiques Hunting
* Antiques Hunting
* Quartiere Coppedè Walking Tour
* Monti Walking Tour
* Trastevere Walk
* Testaccio Walking Tour
* Garbatella Walking Tour
No Data Plan or Internet is Needed, and No Roaming either. All the data used in this app is built into the software, so you can follow the city walks or use the city map without internet access or cellular data plan. No need to pay the costly roaming charges when traveling to foreign cities. The app works with your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
The powerful navigation assistance includes:
* Walk routes clearly displayed on map.
* Precise walking directions from one sight to the next.
* `FindMe` displays your exact location and Auto Tracking displays your movement on the map (this feature is not supported by the iPod Touch and iPad wifi models).
* Built-in compass to show you the direction.
* Create your own walks to see the attractions you like.
* A detailed city map which can be used independently for your other traveling needs.
Please visit our website at www.GPSmyCity.com to find city walks for over 470 cities worldwide.
Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. This app gives you the option to turn off the GPS tracking in the background to prolong the battery life.
Latest reviews of Rome Map & Walks (F) app for iPhone and iPad
Does not work very well, it doesnt give you the directions in offline mode.
Very poorly written. Full of grammatical mistakes.
Cumbersome to use. Problems saving your progress and preferences. Avoid, not worths the time and effort.
The problem is the search engine. It does not recognize important key words. I know there is a famous art gallery called Galleria or Palazzo Spada, but it does not come up when I type in galleria or palazzo, and when I type in Spade, a completely unrelated museum (Museo Baracco) is shown. In fact, aside from the Barberini, Corsini, Capitoline Museums and Borghese, I could find none of the dozens of other galleries of painting. Equally bad is the handling of Romes scores of famous churches. Maybe theyre all in there, but only special tricks or chance browses bring them up. The app seems to work well for shopping, but is a pain in the neck for cultural sites etc.
Good set of tours if you want clues on places to visit clustered together. The descriptions of each point of interest are weak but acceptable. Mapping functionality is terrible. Google maps proved to be far more useful.