I also appreciate your feedback, but within the world of a standalone GPS turn by turn app, everything needs to be taken within a sense of context. I was not “glowing” in my review, and I pointed out more negative points regarding the app than positive. In fact I specifically say in my first comment that if you are replacing a stand along GPS unit, then you should wait.

What about cut, copy and paste for your addresses? Do you have the iPhone 3.0 software? $24.99 is priced on the lower end of the spectrum for turn by turn GPS apps. AT&T Navigator (by Telenav) launched a few days ago for $9.99 per month on your AT&T bill (if you are in the USA) which comes out to be $120 per year. I will be reviewing this app very shortly.

The upcoming Tom Tom app will likely cost at least double (or triple) the price of the G-Map app, so that also must be considered when making your purchasing decision.

I don’t know that I would call Eric’s review “glowing”… he did sum it up with the word “potential” after all… but I’m guessing you also read Swain’s review of G-Map East which mentioned adding addresses to Favorites.

Apps like this come with different expectations for different people, and it sounds like Swain was perfectly ok with adding addresses as Favorites whereas you expect the app to talk to Contacts which I think is also totally reasonable and hopefully this feature will come in a future update. In fact, I’m already drafting an email to G-Map’s developers so they’ll know to read your comments.

I just don’t want you to think all of our reviews are B.S. because our reviewers always try to point out the strengths AND faults of everything we try out. With apps like G-Map it’s a bit harder because there are different ways to use it (ie: Eric was on a long-distance road trip while Swain was driving around his neighborhood) and sometimes it can be tough to cover every angle.

Blowing $25 on anything you don’t like always sucks whether it’s software or something else, but I hope the grain of salt you’re now reading our reviews with won’t sour your overall experience here. Our writers put a lot of effort into their work so even though you didn’t agree with them on G-Map hopefully you’ll still be able to find future reviews worth reading.

Michael

I wish now that I could get my money back.

There is absolutely no interface with the iPhone’s contacts or Maps. This means that if I want to drive to a friend’s house, I need to open Contacts, write down my friend’s address on a piece of paper, open G-map and then type all that information in to the Gmap form all over again!

If I look up a business in Maps and save the phone number to my contacts so that I can call the business, if I decide to drive to that business location, I have to write down the address on a piece of paper and then type it in to g-map all over again.

The main benefit of using your iphone GPS rather than a portable GPS unit is so that you can make use of all the contacts already stored in your phone and/or easily look up new businesses.

Also, one minor gripe – g-map does not allow you to zoom in or out using multitouch.

DO NOT waste your $25 on this horrible piece of crap. Unfortunately, I will now take any future positive reviews from iphoneappreviews.net with a grain of salt.