“Second” First GIS for iPhone

Last summer I noted an iPhone app that claimed to be the first “GIS for the iPhone platform.” (APB post) I had the founder of the company behind it, Integrity Logic explain how the app that showed California geology was a GIS. Since then, app for other states have appeared.

Yesterday, Geometry, a company from Hobart in Australia announced iGIS, “the first GIS application to deliver true GIS functionality to the iPhone and iPod Touch.” (press release) It’s a shapefile viewer that overlays the data on Google Maps.

For $19.99 you get:

·      Great speed, using Geometry’s multi-threaded map renderer;
·      Ability to add comments at any nominated point;
·      Import and export using ESRI Shapefiles;
·      Display of the current location using the iPhone GPS;
·      Layer interrogation facility via a simple selection;
·      Selected data display; and
·      Coordinates of current position in any chosen projection.

Also noteworthy, it supports 3000 projections, so ideally you need not reproject your data. And, notes the website: “
**** A Wi-Fi network is required to import or export data ****”

Apparently the company submitted the app to the AppStore back in November per a note on the website, expecting it to be available for sale in December. I guess it took longer than that.

The demo video is below - be on your toes it goes rather fast!