Mapy.Cz, Best Online/Offline Map App+Server

Update: The superb maps app released every bit "Windy Maps" for Android too iOS.

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Seznam.cz was too likely withal is Czechia's close visited spider web page – too the fellowship behind it, a formidable, locally stronger challenger of Google's.

I am proud to bring spent an lx minutes chatting to Ivo Lukačovič, its founder too owner, inwards the early on 1990s. We participated at the Liane bulletin board system Session – a real-world gathering of folks who would otherwise exclusively chat through the telnet-based Bulletin Board Service. We were talking shortly earlier he founded the company, during our walk to the summit of Ještěd, a Northern Bohemian loma (Sudetenland) alongside a famous hyperboloid construction at the top.

"Seznam" agency a "list" or a "directory" too the fellowship began every bit a Yahoo-style "list of all Czech websites". You tin imagine that this approach to the Internet has been somewhat obsolete for quite roughly time. So Seznam.cz gradually embraced a total search engine too – commonly alongside roughly delay – close of the other services that non-Czechs by too large associate alongside Google. The map server too application, Mapy.cz ("mapy" is "maps", the plural from "mapa" i.e. "a map"), is i of the close successful projects of this large Czech company.

I recommend you lot to

try Mapy.cz website, download Android app, iOS app, WM app.

This weblog post is beingness written right similar a shot because the Android map was only upgraded to version 5.0 which contains offline maps of the whole world. That novel version volition come upwards to iOS soon, too.

For example, afterwards you lot tap the three-dots (other commands) too "offline mapy" (the spider web exists inwards Czech too English, the apps exclusively inwards Czech hence far, every bit far every bit I know), you lot may download the whole U.S. to your Android telephone – it is roughly 22 gigabytes – or you lot may download each of the 142 U.S. maps separately (states but also diverse districts, groups islands etc.). In all these applications, you lot volition confront the linguistic communication barrier. The outset affair the American readers should know is that "Spojené státy americké" is the phrase for "The United States of America of America". The UK starts alongside "Spojené", too. But you lot volition run across flags too it's non difficult to usage the functions fifty-fifty if you lot don't empathize the Czech.




First, permit me start alongside the server, Mapy.cz. I chose the map to start at the Harvard Square. You may endeavour to search for places adjacent to the magnifying glass. English linguistic communication isn't a occupation – except that you lot shouldn't usage the two-letter abbreviations of the states.

The website offers you lot to modify the map type ("change the map"). In Czechia, you lot may pick i of the fourteen map types - basic, tourist's, winter, plane thought from v dissimilar years, geographic, transportation, 19th century, haptic, too a text map. Outside Czechia, the options are a flake limited. On overstep of that, at that topographic point is the 3D thought which you lot may rotate, fifty-fifty automatically – run across 3D thought of Harvard Square, endeavour the buttons at the bottom.




Through the right-click, you lot may larn the 3D thought – hither you lot bring the 3D model of the Prague Castle etc. And too then there's the Panorama mode, i.e. the Czech Street View which was created too is beingness updated past times Czech competitors of the Google vans. Here you lot bring the Old Town Square's Panorama.

Both the website too the smartphone apps allow you lot to navigate from i house to roughly other – at that topographic point are particular routes optimized for cars, bikes, skis, walk, too boats – too salve your optimized navigation path or the path recorded past times GPS to your "backpack".

The backpack too other sharing too similar functions are best used if you lot create your ain Seznam.cz account (and email address). Note that on this page, you lot tin switch to the English linguistic communication language (flags at the top).

Almost every Czech alongside a smartphone is using Mapy.cz – which also exists on Windows Phone/Mobile. I recall it's an instance of the really bad Czech P.R. that this skillful server too application hasn't been marketed inwards the footing yet. Maybe I should bring made this indicate to Ivo earlier I posted this weblog post. But I guess that he's satisfied alongside beingness an gauge Crown Billionaire – are at that topographic point advantages of beingness a Dollar Billionaire? ;-) (The master copy version of this text suggested that the website Mapy.cz is exclusively inwards Czech every bit good – it's inwards both languages too I bring updated it afterwards they corrected me.)