geopdf app

[crazynorwegian]

After doing some searching, this was a topic when android first came out. I am amazed that we still dont have a geopdf program. Anyone who does outdoor sports (hiking, biking, skiing) in places where cell phone reception is not available would love to have offline topo maps. The iphone has it why cant we? The geopdf maps are free and you only have to download the ones that cover the area you are in so it saves so much space on your sd card. I would pay for an app like this.

[Dara Parsavand]

You might be referring to some of my posts, e.g.,

http://groups.google.com/group/andro...e883d3ec?pli=1

http://geopdf.blogspot.com/2008/10/m...or-people.html

http://www.navigadget.com/index.php/...gps-navigation

Since those posts, I picked up an iPhone after having bad luck with my G1 during a 1 month trial period (California law at least). I plan to go back to Android for sure in Dec 2010 and I'm pretty sure one of the hardware choices will be perfect for me. I have purchased to topographic mapping programs for the iPhone (Topo Maps and TopoPointUSA) and they work pretty well but are far from the type of solution I'm looking for. For one think, I don't want the program and data to reside only on the phone, I want something more analogous to iTunes (not that I'm crazy about that program) that lets me download maps to my PC and organize which ones I want on my phone since for the near future, phone storage will always be limited compared to hard drives. All iPhone topo apps seem to have the problem that they behave badly when there are too many maps stored on the phone (way less than the memory of the phone would allow). Apps for the iPhone are really screwy in terms of data file storage - I don't think you get many options do move information back and forth from a PC other than emailing yourself or something moronic. I do expect when Andorid reaches parity with iPhone in terms of total users that there will be some offline topographic mapping applications of high quality and hopefully won't cost more than around $20 (sure, I'd love a free open-source one too). Whether we'll see a GeoPDF viewer anytime soon I don't know - none of the iPhone apps work that way I believe. When GeoPDF files reach a state where the information is layered and I can turn off the layers I'm not interested in (like County lines), I'm going to be disappointed if I can't use the newest maps. I'm looking forward to next year.