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Skobbler UK Launch
Germany’s best-selling iPhone navigation app, has launched in the UK and includes free map updates for life.
This affordable sat nav app puts the power in users’ hands, letting motorists (and pedestrians) join forces to update maps far faster than ever before.
This community-led approach, known as crowdsourcing, is what makes skobbler unique. It uses free maps from OpenStreetMap, and lets motorists highlight issues and correct them quickly. As a result, all users benefit from consistently updated maps without paying for expensive and already out-of-date updates.
Whenever a skobbler user finds a problem with their route – e.g. a new one-way street or a new layout – they can use the skobbler app to report the new information to the huge and immensely active OpenStreetMap community. Whenever an error is fixed, it only takes a few days for it to be visible to all users. The idea is that just like online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, the more users update their own surroundings, the better the map and skobbler navigation will be for everyone.
Features that have been packed into the sub £3.00 app include;
- Turn-by-turn GPS navigation
- Visual and voice-guided navigation
- 2.5D bird’s eye view graphics
- Day and night display modes
- iPod music playback during navigation
- Automatic continuation of navigation after incoming calls
- Pedestrian mode
- Take me home function
- Dynamic map updates at no extra cost
- User-editable maps of UK and Ireland (OpenStreetMap data)
- Bookmarks for favourite destinations
