Poison Maps - North America for Android

11 things about Poison Maps - North America

1. The app contains every possible category of POI: hotels, banks, toilets, tourist attractions, hills, towns, transport, hospitals, churches, schools, libraries, civic buildings, rescue services, fuel stations, restaurants, bars, shops, leisure, parking and much much more.

2. Note that this free version includes most of the categories, but the expansion pack is required for POIs and routes in the food & drink, shops, sport & leisure and driving categories.

3. It also contains hundreds of thousands of miles of colour-coded routes, such as railways, subway maps, bus routes, cycle routes, hiking trails and ski pistes.

4. It includes millions of POIs and thousands of miles of routes, all stored on your device for use even when offline.

5. The unique panning gesture requires just one touch of one finger instead of the multi-finger gymnastics required by the traditional “pinch to zoom” approach (although that is still available).

6. The POIs and routes are all taken from the fantastic OpenStreetMap project.

7. Radar mode and Scanner modes are similar but also include a map that rotates around the current position.

8. When you have selected a category then the nearest POIs are shown on a mini-map with the details listed below.

9. Scanner mode uniquely positions the GPS dot at the bottom of the screen so that you can see much more information in the direction that you are pointing.

10. Compass mode simply shows signs to the POIs.

11. It also works offline and is perfect for people who hate maps: they just follow the sign to where they want to go.