Maps for WP 8.0

Maps for Windows Phone 8.0 is one of the most useful and innovative App for finding locations, routes, Maps, finding directions, roads and many more interesting features described below. It is a perfect travelling guide, now available in your Pocket.

Features Summary:

- Location tracking
- Route finder
- Travelling guide
- Directions finder
- Roads
- Locate me
- 4 cartography modes ((Road, aerial, hybrid, terrain),
- Map colors: black and white
- Land mark and pedestrian features
- Pitching selection (view from every angle)
- Heading selection (Turn in every direction)
- Powerful Zooming features.
- 3 tile sizes (small, medium, large)
- Live tile features.
- Feature Suggestions Box built-in to the App.
- Online Social Community to Socialize with other Users.

This App contains sliders to change some properties of the map (cartographic mode, pitch, and heading). Map related functionality is demonstrated with retrieving and displaying the phones current location on the map, searching the map for a keyword, and displaying a route and directions from the current location to a destination.

Interesting feature is a Map control with overlays for direct manipulation of the map properties cartography mode (road, aerial, hybrid, terrain), pitch (from which angle to look at the map), and heading (turning the map to change the directional heading that is pointing up). Center and zoom level properties can be changed directly by dragging and pinching the map control.

Search feature initiates search functionality requiring input for a search term. If one or more hits are found for a given search term, the map is animated to the location of the first hit.

Route button initiates a route functionality which requires destination name. If one or more hits are found for a given destination, a route from current location to the destination is shown on the map. Travel mode can be selected between Driving and Walking.