USA Road Atlas
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.
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USA RoadAtlas | United States Road Atlas with Offline GPS Navigation