{"id":655786,"date":"2013-05-02T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=641536"},"modified":"2013-05-02T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:26:00","slug":"skobblers-online-offline-forevermap2-app-is-now-available-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655786","title":{"rendered":"Skobbler\u2019s online-offline ForeverMap2 app is now available on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skobbler<\/a>, the Berlin-based outfit that largely provides tools for incorporating OpenStreetMap-based<\/a> functionality into other companies’ apps<\/a>, has launched a major revamp of its own iOS play, ForeverMap.<\/p>\n

ForeverMap provides both online and offline mapping functionality, based on OpenStreetMap<\/a>. The first iteration used a much older version of Skobbler’s technology and required the user to download a rather hefty 1.5GB of data covering all territories, regardless of where they intended to use the app.<\/p>\n

The new version, ForeverMap 2, has been available for Android<\/a> since November, but is now also out there for iPhone and iPad<\/a>. It aims to provide the best of both online and offline worlds \u2013 to allow proper offline search and routing, unlike Google Maps, and to allow online functionality, unlike travel apps such as CityMaps2Go. Its coverage is global, and users can choose to download offline maps on a per-country basis.<\/p>\n

“We know that modern users want one map that handles all of their needs, and we believe we’ve delivered this with a genuinely innovative hybrid solution based on the popular, rich and dynamic OpenStreetMap,” Skobbler CTO Philipp Kandal said in a statement.<\/p>\n

However, while ForeverMap2 is a consumer play, it is also a showcase of Skobbler’s GeOS SDK and NGx mapping engine. As co-founder Marcus Thielking told me, it gives the company’s prospective white label clients \u2013 who are largely in the automotive business \u2013 “a good template” for what they could build on top of the product.<\/p>\n

“It’s the perfect pitching tool \u2013 we just give it to them and they can see what we can do,” he said. Previously announced customers for Skobbler’s technology include the city guide app outfit Triposo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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