USA RoadAtlas | United States Road Atlas with Offline GPS Navigation App Reviews

All of the other good reviews are spot on! I mean...its a real USA Road Atlas...just like the paper book ones...only better! You can set routes, re-route if necessary the same route, check mileage within a route, check certain "insets" for a major city, change route line colors and line types and much more. I just love it and cant believe that I dont miss the paper book one that always...gets wet, torn-up, lost in the car, out-dated, etc.....but surprisingly I dont miss it!!!

Rubbish! The iPad comes with a great street navigation app called Maps. The problem (and it is a big problem) is that the maps are not resident on the iPad and have to be downloaded from the Internet as you go, and that means via 3G (data). You cant even download the maps you need for a particular route in advance. My GSM account is outside the US and recently it cost me $200 to use Maps for 4 hours in New York City. It is possible to have the whole country or even a whole continent downloaded to the device, and we know this because Microsoft has a program called Streets and Trips (Autoroute in Europe) which does just that on my laptop without consuming vast swathes of memory. US Road Atlas does not zoom down to street level and it does not reside on the device. The market is crying out for an app which does on the iPad what Streets and Trips does on the laptop, but no-one is paying attention -- either that or its an issue of copyright which Microsoft has solved but others cant. Apps arent expensive but time is valuable and unfortunately, mediocrity is rife. Its a nice looking highway atlas as long as you are connected to the Internet, but so is the Maps app. Theres just no point.

What a waste of money! For half the price you can get a REAL atlas with inserts, population numbers, points of interest etc.

Rather disappointed, a rough looking map and too cluttered. No ability to include or exclude items shown on the map. For $10.00 I expected a more polished mapping program.

I have over 200 apps and regrettably must say this is by far my biggest disappointment. It is virtually unusable.

This app is a MUST on a trip. We traveled a 1900 mile scenic trip from Oakland Ca. to Seattle WA and used this map the entire trip. We traveled up the Calif. coast, back to Interstate 5, then to Crater Lake. From there, back to the Oregon coast, up to Portland, then on to Seattle. On the Ipad, we could track exactly where we were. Paper maps are no longer needed. Once we got to a city or area where we needed to view the side streets, we used the GPS on our phone. Highly Rated and NO MORE PAPER MAPS! YEA Ron Wood

This is the worst mapping app I have ever purchased. If I wanted a picture of a paper map I could have taken my own picture. What a waste of money. I would throw $10.00 in the trash before I would buy this app again.

There are a few things I like about this app, principally the ability to record an exportable .gpx file of my track. I also found the HEMA base map to be quite accurate given the scale, and appreciated the backcountry roads shown. If more details then the base map are needed, additional maps sets can be downloaded, although cashing is limited. I would like to see the ability to over zoom with the base map.

Not only does it lack detail, it is years out of date!! DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!! You are better off spending your money on paper maps!

The reviews which whine about the fact that these maps dont have every little street simply dont understand the concept of an "atlas". An atlas is meant for navigating *between* cities, not for trying to find Grandmas cul-de-sac. Just as one would purchase paper street maps to go with a paper atlas, one downloads digital street maps to complement this atlas. Because this app uses a custom skin on the proven Memory-Map app, the user has access to the Memory-Map "Digital Map Shop". Even better, if one already has the regular M-M app, as I do, any licenses activated for that app also work with this one, so already-purchased maps can be transferred into the HEMA app and used with the atlas. Overall, its a very good and useful app.

This is a great map app! Like other 5-star reviews have stated - the bad reviews are by people that do not understand the concept of an atlas. This is not a GPS navigation app! If you wanted a navigation app, you should have bought a navigation App! This is a great map app with lots of great features. Sometimes I like to look at a good old fashioned atlas. Or, I want to look ahead and see alternative routes. What cities are ahead? Etc. just like an old atlas did, but in digital format. I have 2-3 good navigation apps when I need to get to an exact address. When I want to map my route, thus is my only go to app.

I just threw away $14. This app is garbage. Waypoints are by as "the crow flys". Limited points of interest with NO information about them. No instructions. Difficult to impossible to use.

This is the best USA Atlas I have found and I have tried many. It does what its supposed to do. It answers most of your questions. What lake is that? How high is that mountain? Where are the main highways? It gives you the BIG Picture. Its not a city turn by turn app. Get Tom Tom for that. Between the two apps you have everything you need for offline navigation.

I use this app on my iPad when we travel and it works very well. No need for my big road map book anymore.

As an Atlas, this is very, very good. Ive used it for four years now. It does not go down to the fine street detail of google or apple maps, but I did not expect it to. It is an Atlas, without the bulk of a big map book. Well worth the money, works well in iPhone and iPad 3g.