5/18/2023 0 Comments Grid labels off in mapublisher![]() Future iterations of the app may introduce a two-tiered, free-basic feature and pay advanced feature parellel versions, which seems reasonable to me. The inaugural version is iOS only but the company has had requests for Android, Symbian, Blackberry and even Windows 7 Mobile. Because these particular maps include street labels, they don’t need to switch back and forth to Apple’s provided Google Maps app as they navigate. ![]() They were amazed at how easy it was to locate themselves on the map and make notes by dropping markers they bring back to the office for me to review. I’ve created my own GeoPDFs and used those from USGS and Avenza.īesides myself, I setup two non-cartographers with an iPad (3g  with gps) and several GeoPDFs depicting neighborhood-level street maps to field check in the Washington DC metro area. I’ve used the app in my neighborhood, on a cross country road trip, and we’ve been using it to ground truth maps at at my day job. I’ve been testing it for several months using both the beta and  final release versions. ![]() I quite enjoy Avenza’s new free PDF Maps iOS app, free and available now on the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad. It’s certainly not an ArcPad, but it works on the iPad and you’ll find it fun to use (and the app price is right). Professional cartographers can use the app to deliver custom cartography maps that leverage GPS to locate the map-reading customer with the magic blue dot. This app gets the job done: PDF Maps introduces a strongly played set of basic features and later versions promise to add more advanced features like layer visibility and feature attribute query.
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