Apple picker Press Release: The spring season has already started, people go for walks or bike rides and plan their summer vacation. An important aid is the map. The era of paper maps is heading into history by leaps and bounds, a large percentage of the public today prepares their trips or vacations on a computer with a map portal or with a map mobile application. During their own events, they use the map mobile application for orientation, as a guide and also to record their experiences. After that, they return to their vacation experiences at home via the application and remember what interesting things happened to them.
In the Google Play Store or the Apple Store, there are a large number of map mobile applications of varying difficulty, quality and content. In many, the map has to be purchased or contains freely available OpenStreetMap data that is created by the public. However, those specifically for outdoor activities (cycling or hiking) are incomplete. For example, if you want to walk in the mountains in the Italian Alps, you download an application that uses free data, and then on the spot you find out that there are several times more marked hiking trails in the field than in your mobile application. You can thus miss out on a number of beautiful trips and you will have a problem with orientation.
The PhoneMaps mobile application, created by cartographic companies freytag & berndt, an international publishing house with headquarters in Vienna, known for its detailed tourist maps of the Alps, and SHOCart, the largest map producer in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which runs, for example, the popular outdoor portal cykloserver.cz or publishes very successful cycling maps, contains detailed tourist and cycling maps including a complete network of marked tourist and marked and recommended cycling routes in almost all of Europe. For the Czech Republic and Slovakia, you will also find unique data from the cykloserver.cz map portal in the application, including the passability of roads for cyclists.
The application is free to download in the Stores, the use of the application, all its functions and the download of maps in offline mode are also free. The application contains a small advertising banner that does not interfere with its functioning. If the user wants an ad-free app, they can purchase a yearly subscription that will remove the banner.
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In the PhoneMaps app, you can plan an outdoor trip and import or create your own route. If you don't want to use the maps online, you can download them offline without having to use the internet later. During an activity directly in the field, you can record your route and experiences, display your current location, read tourist information about attractions in the area, export and send it to your friends when you return.
The application also contains the printed travel guides of freytag & berndt in the Czech language converted for electronic use and the tourist guides of the best-selling European edition of Bergverlag Rother in the Czech and German languages. Users can purchase these guides in the app at prices 30-50% lower than in book form.
The biggest advantage of the application is the possibility to use professionally prepared detailed zoomable maps with a complete network of marked hiking and cycling routes in almost all of Europe and some other parts of the world. And it's free.
- web - www.phonemaps.cz
- The app is available for both iOS, so also for Android
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