Transit Maps App Reviews

Works pretty well once you are able to identify the actual source file for pdfs. Many of the included links are out of date. Would also be nice if you could edit labels once you have already added a map. In any event, given iPhones gap is displaying PDFs properly this is a handy little app.

Needs work... It dosent have a map of Ottawa

Well.. so far it has crashed 3 times

The links are outdated and there is no way to save the new pdfs with this app!!! If I wanted to connect to the Internet to find the transit map, why wouldnt I just use Safari?! Allow SAVE(upload) of MULTIPLE maps and weve got a winner!!!

All the maps I needed except Pittsburgh downloaded fine. For free this is an amazing app! Thank you!

It works really well, the only problem Ive had is that on irregularly-shaped maps it sometimes prevents one from seeing some parts near the edge.

At its core this app solves one simple problem but it does it very well. This app allows you to load up any complex PDF or large image and it then turns them into a image that you can quickly and smoothy zoom into and move around in. The first time you upload a file it takes a bit to process but after that it is wonderfully responsive. This is great for maps but it could easily be any other image you need to reference often.

When you use a uploaded map, it auto adjust back towards the center of the map. They need to fix this to allow you to be able to go to the edge of the map and see whats there because some maps have more than just the roots.

This would be a great app if the damn Map would load !!! Fix please ....

fast, no lag at all but a pain to get documents into the app. needs a drag and drop through iTunes like adobe reader. Also needs a way to view more than one page of a map.

I am so happy this app is here. I use it regularly. What would be nice, however, is saving more than one page of a pdf!

Worked perfectly out the gate as described. I had no problems adding maps. Took less than a minute. Renders beautifully.

It cannot handle my maps, around 350 Meg png file. It crashes after 12% of downloading. Maybe some more advances read would help, or some pc/mac preprocessor?

Once you get your large image or map loaded, its wonderful! Its stored on your iPhone/Touch/Pad so you have it with you even without network access. Scrolling and zooming is as smooth as Google Maps. The app works by rendering whatever image you give it at full size, broken into tiles, so that it can efficiently display the image, just as Google Maps does. It does have a few rough edges, of course its FREE, but here are the issues Ive noted: 1. The interface for loading new maps is a bit clunky. (copy/paste is your friend to get your url in there) If for some reason the "processing" stage fails, sometimes the app will ask to resume processing, but other times it will just be stuck there forever, and you have to delete it to start over. 2. Older iPhones/Touches have very little RAM, so its hard for TransitMaps to process huge images, and it can be VERY slow on large ones given the limited computational capacity of the mobile devices. It would be great if the author could write a pre-processing app for Mac/PC, so you could put a pre-processed image on the web somewhere and download it straight into the app without making the iPhone compute all the tiles. 3. REALLY big images can be tricky. The filesize itself cant be more than ~100MB (maybe less) and the image dimensions cant exceed about 30 mega-pixels if its in color (thats roughly 5600x5600 pixels) or larger than that if its a grayscale or black/white image. 4. PDFs seem to work slightly faster than PNGs, and using an image editor to reduce to 256 colors (especially without dithering) can really help get the filesize and rendering times down. If its a map (solid colors, lines) you want to avoid JPG. 5. If you find some site that gives you an image but it doesnt give a filename with .pdf or .gif or .png etc, just save the image on your computer first and upload it to your own website or a photo sharing place like flickr or imgur. Or turn on web-sharing on your own computer and connect via your home lan. I hope that since its free the author wont stop working on it. Its a fabulous app with some room to grow and improve in the future. Write to the author to express your support, and try out his other (paid) apps as well.

This is a pretty decent app for general purpose viewing of really large images, not just maps. The downloading stage works fine, but the processing stage is unstable sometimes when your image is larger than 2000px (and pops up a warning when its over 4k). If you try again youll usually get it working on the second or third try. Once you get past that, its rock solid and reasonably fast (on my 8gb ipod touch). Minor nits include the add map button being on the main screen instead of the saved maps list, and not being able to read images out of the onboard photo library. Fix those and this would be perfect.

I downloaded some large maps for biking. One was 8 mb. This app made viewing them quick and smooth. Great app!

so everytime i download a pdf i can only view the first page, which in my case (septa maps) is a picture of the bus, train or subway, none of the information i want/need ends up saved, i could be doing something wrong, but i doubt it....

Works great. Have SF Muni and AC transit maps downloaded to my iPod touch, so I dont have to have Internet access to view. CalTrain and BART maps can be downloaded too, although they arent as useful to have handy. No problems with the app so far and the price is right.

The only problem I have is that it will only show 1 page of a multiple page PDF. I hope this glitch is fixed with the next release

The only problem I have is that it will only show 1 page of a multiple page PDF. I hope this glitch is fixed with the next release