FREE update to skobbler’s ForeverMap 2 for iOS features a full travel guide, making it the ultimate travel companion

FREE update to skobbler’s ForeverMap 2 for iOS features a full travel guide, making it the ultimate travel companion

Next-generation digital worldwide hybrid mapping app supplemented by a global travel guide, available for just 69p for a limited time

The COMPLETE travel companion, featuring:

• All new wiki travel guide
• Full hybrid operation with all features available both online and offline
• No more hefty roaming fees for data or problems with lost signals
• Routing for pedestrians, bikes and cars with a choice of different map styles
• Powerful mapping engine ensures seamless, unmatched map experience
• Continuously free mapping and software updates

NO OTHER app offers all of this – and for just 69p for a limited time (£1.99 thereafter)

Berlin, Germany, 11^th July 2013: skobbler, pioneers in digital mapping solutions and a premier player in mobile location-aware services, has today announced a major update to its recently released Forevermap 2 for iOS.  Offering true hybrid online and offline functionality and utilising the wildly popular OpenStreetMap, ForeverMap 2 will now feature an extensive wiki travel guide at no extra cost, allowing users to discover more about their intended destination wherever they are in the world. Just like the rest of the app, the travel guide is available both online and offline, not being restricted by low signal areas or expensive roaming charges when abroad.

ForeverMap 2 is itself a startling innovation in modern mapping. Market-leading alternatives such as Google Maps offer very little offline functionality and cannot perform searching or routing without an internet connection, and while CityMaps2Go does offer city downloads these are not seamlessly integrated into one map. ForeverMap2 trumps all of them by remaining a truly hybrid solution, ensuring that all key features are also available offline. And with the all new wiki travel guide featuring around 90,000 English-language pages written by registered wiki travelers from around the world, ForeverMap 2 has truly become the ultimate app for travelers. The wiki travel guide adopts the same open-source premise as OpenStreetMap, ensuring that travel data is regularly updated, accurate and informed by the people that know the area best. What’s more, downloadable content is far less data-heavy than alternatives and can be added and removed as the user sees fit. All features are available both online and offline as standard, with no in-app purchases and no additional fees.

With open source collaboration proving so popular in the modern age, OpenStreetMap is rapidly becoming the digital map of choice with many companies now adopting the OSM brand. skobbler is the only company that has pulled together a seamless and complete travel companion from the wealth of information available, showing exactly what’s possible with a modern outlook and passing these benefits onto consumers. And in keeping with the no/low profit models of the Open Source community, ForeverMap 2 is available for a one-time purchase of £1.99 via the iTunes App Store. While already an unbeatable price, to celebrate the launch of the travel guide, skobbler will make ForeverMap 2 available for just 69p for a limited time. Users will receive continuous free updates, save money on data roaming costs when abroad and save hassle in areas with low or no reception with no impact on performance – in fact skobbler’s powerful mapping engine ensures that ForeverMap 2 equals or beats key features from rivals on almost all fronts.

“We promised more exciting features following the launch of Forevermap 2 and this is the first of them – but let me tell you there are many more to come,” said skobbler CTO Philipp Kandal. “Our target with ForeverMap 2 was to create the ultimate worldwide mapping and travel app and to do this we knew we had to outperform what’s currently available. With hybrid online/offline functions, our continued dedication towards the excellent OpenStreetMap, and now an extensive travel guide, we believe we’ve done this, and best of all for an unbeatable price.”

Driven by skobbler NGx, the most powerful mapping engine in the world, ForeverMap 2 is extremely customisable with control over features such as map display, routing and map-matching with fluid, high-performance implementation. Companies interested in using OpenStreetMap can get a taste of what’s possible thanks to skobbler’s portfolio of success in this area, which led to it amassing over three and a half million users worldwide on iOS alone, best-selling navigation app in Germany and #1 position in over 20 countries. New users can download the new version of ForeverMap 2 from the Apple App Store today: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id394763737, with the update also being rolled out immediately to existing users.

For more information on ForeverMap 2 or skobbler NGx visit www.skobbler.co.uk

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