There’s a bucketload of location apps, but this particular here one, localscope, has a couple of things going for it that not all other location apps do: it’s hooked in through various social media sites, and it won Apple’s Rewind 2011 award as the best navigation app. And at $1.99 at your local iTunes app store, that’s a lot of functionality for the money. Or so it seems to me. Check it out for your own self and give it some thought.
Full information below.
localscope is your social data powered GPS app.
Always know where you are and what’s around you with Localscope. Search for and discover places around your location by gathering information from multiple geo search engines and social networks, currently including: Google, Bing, Foursquare, Twitter and Wikimapia.
Browse your search results in an amazingly intuitive list view with realtime direction pointers and distance meters. Lay them out on the map or look through the state of the art augmented reality view to spot the results in the real world. Map and get directions to your results, call them directly or store them to your address book. Share your findings with your friends using SMS, email, Facebook or Twitter.
FEATURES:
✔ Works worldwide – Explore your location wherever you are
✔ Find places around you using Google, Bing, Foursquare, Twitter, and Wikimapia, side-by-side without even retyping your query
✔ Lookup your recent and favorite search phrases or browse everything nearby in a tap
✔ Not restricted to your neighborhood – Discover places around an address in your contacts or any place in the world
✔ Consume search results in 3 uniquely useful views: List, Map and Augmented Reality
✔ Call, open maps for directions or create contacts from the results in a tap
✔ 3 dimensional compass engine, gives real time location updates with distance and direction meters that always point to the right directions no matter how you hold your phone
✔ Switch between miles / yards (US) and kilometers / meters (Metric) easily
✔ Integrates with Navigon MobileNavigator, MotionX GPS Drive, MotionX GPS Drive HD, Magellan RoadMate, Navfree / Navmii GPS navigation, Waze, MetroView Australia and NewZealand, Sygic GPS Navigation and TomTom’s navigation app to get turn by turn directions to a search result
✔ Integrates with Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare apps for seamless sharing and check-ins.
✔ Localized to 18 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Thai
