MapOut is a good complement to Swiss Map Mobile
The Swiss are world-leading cartographers and cartophiles. Their maps are excellent, and they love them. The best Swiss topo map is called swisstopo. It is produced by the Swiss governments Bundesamt fuer Landestopografie. It shows every building in the whole country.
A few years ago Mr. Garzotto brought out an iPhone app "Swiss Map Mobile", based on swisstopo map tiles. Its great, but it can be expensive depending on how you use it, and it doesnt store all of its map data in the iPhone, so you can find yourself far from civilization with no Internet connection and no map.
The maps for MapOut appear to be derived from the open-source OpenStreetMaps project. While OpenStreetMaps for Switzerland are of very good quality, they are not quite up to the standard of swisstopo. The strength of MapOut is that the application includes *all* of its map data for Switzerland, some 500MB. While youre navigating, an Internet connection is unnecessary. On the other hand, your iPhone needs more than 500MB of free memory to load the app.
MapOut is new, and still lacks functionality as compared, for example, with Swiss Map Mobile or MotionX GPS. But even v1.0 of MapOut is a valuable complement to my other nav apps, and I look forward to more functionality in future versions.
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