Distance Comparison Map 4+

Name: Distance Comparison Map
Rating: 1 (2 reviews)
Author: Purple Development

Purple Development

Designed for iPad

- 1.0 • 2 Ratings

- Free

Description

Distance Comparison Map helps you compare the distance between 2 locations with a variable radius from your hometown, where you are most familiar with. You can easily have an idea of how far away the chosen locations are because Distance Comparison Map visualize it side-by-side with your hometown's map!

How many times have you wondered how far it is from this place to that location? Or even though you know exact distance in kilometres or miles, you still have no idea? Distance Comparison Map will definitely brings you the answer. Distance Comparison Map let you choose a hometown location and translate the remote distance into your hometown’s. The distance can easily be understood because it becomes the distance in your hometown, an area you know best.

With Distance Comparison Map you know the distance from New York, USA to Boston, USA equals that from Rome, Italy to Bologna, Italy; And the distance from London, UK to Paris, France equals that from Toronto, Canada to Ottawa, Canada.

Apr 19, 2017

Version 2.1

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- Fixed a bug with sharing

1.0 out of 5

2 Ratings

Does not work!

At first it worked fine now it does not work at all!

Straight line

This app measures a straight line instead of going along a route. It should have an option to switch between the two different ways. Only setting is mi vs km

Great Potential Could Be Better Executed

This seems to be the only app of its kind in the app store, which is amazing as it remedies a very common situation (one would think a company like Google would have built in a radius feature a long time ago, but no).

However the interface is quirky, only partially adhering to standard protocol. To wit: you want your current location? You have to enter it manually. Fine if you’re at home or work. Not so much if you’re in a new or unfamiliar place. Every other map program has a “compass needle” icon that you tap and it gets your location for you. That’s the standard.

The wording of “hometown location” is a bit presumptuous too. I’m not always looking for distance from home.

So it does what it claims to do, but not quite the way it should be done under iOS. I hope this little issue is addressed with the next release. If I can’t find something better — and I don’t think it exists — I’ll likely buy the pro version, not because I need it, but to encourage the developer.