I've used the TomTom software on my brother's iPhone, on Palm Treo and on their own stand-alone units. Not as good as Garmin's and Garmin's isn't very good.

Back to OffMaps...

Ok, I forgot that you could also do that manual marking of the map with a square and then download that specific area. The UI leaves a lot to be desired... I'd really like to be able to select a point and then pick a radius personally. Or simply pick a state/province/country.

This same method is what some people complained about in negative comments regarding another program. Strange that they don't complain about it here.

I'm downloading a manual region now. But I'm pretty sure to use it I'll have to create a bookmark for it. When you download one of the predefined cities (map only) there's no way to select it. I suppose you could scroll around the map and then locate the area to make a bookmark. That kind of sucks for offline viewing. When you're actually at the location GPS will obviously center you on the map and that won't be an issue for THAT location.

I've bought the program and I suppose I won't delete it. But I'm not happy with how it works - which wasn't at all obvious from the free city downloads nor the author's web site. It implied a whole other level of functionality that simply doesn't exist without buying individual guides.

If the guides were a bit better (San Fran's was sparse and so too was Lisbon's) I wouldn't actually mind paying for all of them if a flat-fee were available. As it stands, the author doesn't even list the price of tokens on his site from what I've seen. I haven't found that info anywhere, but I haven't yet clicked the link to buy them - I suppose he'll have to show it there.

The GPS apps aren't cheap and there's no one app that will do the whole world unfortunately. At least not that I know of. I suspect it's not possible to do in-app purchase and then complete the download via iTunes, is it? Apple really need to work this delivery system out, because to me it would make much more sense to sell the GPS apps super-cheap or give them away for free with a minimal feature set and then be able to buy additional maps. Or at the very least buy one or two countries as they're deployed now and then add more without creating additional icons in the springboard.