I just acquired an Apple iPod touch. Looking for some type of travel/map type "app" but appears to be a million or so to choose from. Can anyone currently using an iPod touch recommend one of these apps? What's everybody using? I hesitate to go by the star system I see used for their rating system when browsing for such things.

 

I don't use any of the map apps, I use my GPS.
But one app. I really like for traveling is called HotelPal
I've used it several times. Best of all it's free!

 

Thanks for the info. I'm not much for the GPS but I do like having access to a map now and then along the way. The features of the iTouch are still new to me and not real sure just what it's capable of but I am hoping to find some kind of Atlas of sorts that can be downloaded to my drive so I have access to it at all times. I loaded the HotelPal onto my iTouch. Looks like it could come in handy. Thanks for the tip.

 

If you have the iTouch and not the iPhone, then all you can do is store maps on it. You can get more if you have wireless, but that's not always available. I have a MyTouch, which is the Android phone, and I was using that when I started out on my trip. By the time I got to the Mississippi, I bought a regular road atlas.

You lose a lot of the really cool stuff if it isn't an Internet enabled phone. For example, after 200 miles of pouring down rain today, I'd had enough. I was able to go to the map application on my phone and search for hotels. It found my location then marked the locations of hotels nearby. I was able to tap on the marker to find out what it was, then tap again to get the information. From there I was able to click on the phone number and call to get a room rate. When I found one I wanted, I hit the address and it gave me the directions from where I was to the hotel. You can't do that with an iTouch unless you have wireless access where you are.

In my experience, as far as finding your way across a state or two, a real map is the best way to go. You can get a better idea of how you want to cross Iowa to get to a certain spot in New York when you can see it on a big page. Electronic mapping wants to take you on the Interstates, and then you have to wrestle with it to get to the secondary roads.

 

I would have to agree with you, unfolding an actual map and seeing the big picture works for me. Consistent wireless access is indeed the problem with the iTouch so storing maps was what I had in mind. Just trying to get out of paying another monthly fee for internet access via phone but it may come to that after all is said and done. Thanks for the info.

 

I am lucky my phone has mobile hotspot capability and was the reason I got it to go with my Ipod Touch. I prefer the apps on the ipod over the palm webos apps on the phone.