A real trip-saver

I recently visited France, Italy, England, and Ireland and needed a GPS solution that did not require a data connection (cant pay $19.97 per megabyte - thanks AT&T). This app found everything I threw at it and gave great instructions, particularly for roundabouts which many from US do not encounter on a daily basis.

The walking directions were a serious life-saver in the big cities when we needed help finding things. The GPS acquisition was extremely fast on the iPhone 4S, even with cellular data turned off.

The only complaint is that it was hard to determine the direction you are facing at the start of the walking route. The app takes a guess, but does not use the iPhones compass to show where you are "aimed" (e.g., like the Yelp app does). We often had to just start walking until it updated the screen and then adjust from there.

Even without a data connection, the offline POI database was surprisingly able to find the majority of what we needed. It had trouble with a few addresses but this is to be expected of any GPS app - no maps are perfect or completely up-to-date.

Overall, I would recommend this app to anyone traveling to (or living in) Western Europe.

Matt Lenhart about TomTom Western Europe, v1.11