Schmap, the social-mapping service, has a new and free iPhone app out called GeoTweeter (not to be confused with GeoTweeter.com) that lets you do just that. You can broadcast your location on a map that gets sent at the end of your tweet. Each map link takes up just 23 of Twitter's precious 140 characters... more

GeoTweeter plays on the common practice of using Twitter to inform your followers of your current location, with one neat little twist: it shows them how to get there. Think about it - how often do you see folks using Twitter to invite their friends out en masse? Generally, it’s something like “I’m at... more

We're going to explore the Schmap website, which is home to hundreds of electronic guides to destinations across Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.Visitors can view the guides online or download them onto their PC's harddisk - or even on to an Apple iPhone. Guides include... more

Map guide and platform company Schmap has a cool, free service that lets anyone put in a small, mobile phone-optimized contact information page on their site with just a line of code. This is in case you want to take information like your address, phone number, and e-mail address and improve the way it... more

This, people, is a smart service. Schmap, provider of interactive online maps with guide and tourism info, has just pushed an innovative iPhone-friendly solution into public beta. The service allows users to quickly and easily publish iPhone-friendly contact details with a map on their websites.... more

Schmap can embed code within your website that, when parsed through an iPhone Safari browser, will include an easily visible link to iPhone-formatted contact information. ... Whether you have a restaurant, dog grooming business, or car wash, Schmap’s iPhone optimization service is a no-brainer... more

Who doesn't love online mapping sites? They're the best thing to hit the Internet since online shopping! And, online maps just keep getting better. They're no longer limited to driving directions. With recent mapping sites like Schmap, you can explore the world. You can find out about businesses and attractions... more

Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The innovative technology behind Schmap Guides also lets end users publish their own ‘schmaps’ (to share trip itineraries, local reviews and... more

Schmap, publisher of over 200 free online travel guides, has opened access to their guides for iPhone and iPod Touch users by way of a remarkably nifty web application. The guides cover cities throughout the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, and provide information on everything from... more

Free travel guide site Schmap has crafted a pretty nifty interface for iPhone and iPod touch users looking for spots to hit while traveling. Navigate to the city you're traveling through, pick a category like restaurants or banks, and scroll through the vertical list of results. Flip your iPhone/touch sideways, and... more

Schmap.com is a simple interactive mapping site that’s been well-received by delicious.com users. The site is a map-based travel guide to more than 200 places in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. You can customise the map to highlight sights and attractions, hotels, and so... more

Schmap.com offers free travel guides to more than 200 places in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Schmap mashes up local listings with zoomable city maps. Restaurants, museums, and stores are marked with icons. You can bookmark favorite attractions for printing out later... more

I love traveling. And I am fond of reading travel guides before and while traveling. I like to get the background about the places I am visiting and try to find the best bang for the buck in the limited time I am at a place. The thing I liked the most about Schmap is that it is available online as well as offline as a... more

Schmap isn’t just another online travel guide. With enthusiastic reviews from the IHT, Time and The Washington Post, this guide’s got kick. You can download the application for any city you’re planning to visit (they’ve got desktop guides for over 200 worldwide destinations) and Schmap will present you with a veritable... more

Schmap goes above and beyond the usual user-contributed travel information by assembling comprehensive guides. You can access real-time updated information for virtually anywhere in the world, as well as download desktop guides for over 200 destinations throughout the world. Available... more

If you want to see the future of travel guides and take advantage of a great free travel resource, visit http://www.schmap.com and download the application for a city you plan to visit...The interface can be browsed online or downloaded for offline trip planning or travelling, such as with a laptop. You can even... more

One excellent service called Schmap (www.schmap.com) is growing quickly in Europe and the U.S. but in this part of the world covers only Australia and New Zealand. Schmaps are digital travel guides—programs that you download to your computer (Windows only for now, with a Mac version promised soon) and... more

With the busy summer travel season upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere there's a strong demand for travel maps... enter Schmap! This amazing resource offers up free travel guides/maps that enable you to easily explore virtually any major destination on the planet. The company has... more

Schmapplets is a clever tool that allows users to make customizable maps of places they've been or places they want to go. Appropriate for everything from planning a cross-country road-trip; to sharing photos from a recent hike through the Appalachians; to showcasing your favorite fishing... more

Before you start buying travel guide books, give your PC a chance. You can save time, money and headaches. Start with Schmap, a free travel guide that runs on your computer. It offers maps, photos and destination descriptions. As the name suggests, Schmap is built around its interactive map... more

The free Schmap travel guides (which I'd never previously heard of) offer a wealth of information on each city it highlights, integrating Google Maps-esque maps with photos and relevant information about each hotspot - covering points of historical interest, museums, shopping, restaurants... more

Schmap Guides are fully interactive travel guides that cover a myriad of cities across Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These freely-downloadable travel guides are available for dozens of cities and contain detailed, beautifully presented maps and photos. They also... more

From London to Los Angeles - plan your next city trip with the Schmap Player. It shows detailed maps of 200 big cities in 20 countries. Important landmarks are listed as well as parks, restaurants and hotels, each with its corresponding photo(s), web address and telephone number. Go on a... more

If you travel, or for that matter, live in a major city you long to explore in depth, you must check out Schmap. This free program works in tandem with dozens of guides to give you an interactive and useful resource. Schmap prompts you to choose a city guide, which it will install with the Schmap program... more

The only thing more frustrating than not being able to find a guidebook for your destination is discovering, once you get there, that the one you do have is hopelessly out of date.Thanks to Schmap.com, that might never happen again. Its free, downloadable, digital travel guides are updated... more

If you are traveling in a foreign country and need to find a Mexican restaurant or hotels in the area you are in, you simply need to turn on your computer, point to the street you’re on and Schmap’s digital city guides will do the rest. If you usually travel with your laptop you might not have to buy another ... more

...what makes the Schmap Player so useful is the way it combines this sort of information with extremely customizable maps. This fusion makes finding information much easier and quicker and makes it far more visual when it arrives. The interface is strikingly clear and straightforward... more

Make the best out of your next city tour by starting off well organized: with the Schmap Player interactive travel guide, it’s easy. This freeware offers maps and information for scores of cities (presently over 150) and even plays complete sightseeing tours. The application is especially interesting... more

Jetting off to Paris, but don't want to be unfurling cumbersome travel maps on the Champs Elysées? Maybe it's time to ditch your oldfangled maps for a handy new schmap. This innovative, free travel software, downloadable from schmap.com, lets travelers of both the armchair and... more

The Schmap Player is a tremendous help while planning a trip, but wandering virtually around a city and browsing photos of the city's sights is still great entertainment, even if you never leave the house... more

Schmap is an excellent program designed to run free, downloadable travel guides. These guides give you in-depth information on a city (such as its history, places to stay and eat and drink) and suggest tours and sites to see. You also get access to directories, reviews, photos, and useful links... more

If you are making a flying visit to a city or town then finding interesting places to discover, or the best restaurants and bars, in advance can be a real time saver. Often, people turn to a guidebook or do a quick search online, but a new tool called Schmap puts an interactive map... more

And maybe it's time you thought about throwing out that 1996 edition of The Rough Guide To Prague. Using a product like schmap.com, you simply download a bit of software and each time you connect to the web, it'll update with the latest information on good places to eat, drink and see in a range... more

If there’s one thing we dearly love, it’s cool software that’s free. Such is the case with Schmap, a map program with dozens of interactive guides to U.S. and European destinations. For every city or locale, there are multiple, multilayered maps. With a click of the mouse, you tell Schmap to... more

No, that's not a typo. You may have already heard of Schmap, a new tool that allows you to download and peruse detailed maps and travel guides to cities around the world. I had heard of it, but hadn't gotten around to downloading the Schmap Player (which you must have to view the guides)... more

Finally, there's new freeware from www.schmap.com with downloadable guidebooks for cities in North America and Europe (Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal were added last month, with more Canadian cities to come). Take virtual tours, bookmark hot spots and then chart your route. With maps... more

...The result is interactivity galore. You can generate dynamic maps with helpful links, play tours or create your own and see other people's photos and reviews of sights and attractions. The travel guides are searchable, customizable and updatable... more

IT's always keeping an eye out for new guidebooks, so when Schmap sent us the beta (trial) version of their new product, we were excited and, equally, impressed. A digital collection of interactive guidebooks, Schmap mixes maps with content, virtually allowing users to read about... more

...Schmaps are digital destination guides that contain interactive tours, photographs, reviews, hotel information and more for dozens of cities in Europe and the United States. Most importantly, they're free. Just download the Schmap Player freeware at www.schmap.com and you can help... more

Feel more comfortable scrolling through a screen than leafing through a book? Schmap, a new series of interactive travel guides, may be your keys to the city. Think Google Earth meets Frommer's meets Mapquest. Log on and with just a few keystrokes, download the free Schmap player and... more

I've seen the future of travel guides and the future is Schmap.Schmap is a publisher of worldwide destination guides, but these are not your grandmother's traditional bookbound travel tomes. Schmap is a series of digital travel guides for great locations around the world, viewed not... more

Geeky Traveller points us to Schmap, a cute series of (PC-only) downloadable city guides & maps. Schmaps are currently available from a few dozen cities in the United States and Europe. The main utilityof the Schmaps comes from the integration of guidebook material... more

Take quality maps, classic tourist itineraries, the experience of travelers, and their vacation photos: a new killer app for travel is born...The basic idea behind Schmap is to take maps and content, currently provided by two qualified partners (Wcities and Tele Atlas), and put them into a downloadable... more

Schmap Guides are digital destination guides to cities, islands and regions throughout Europe and America. With top picks and suggested tours, reviews, directory listings, photos and maps, the guides may be downloaded for free to a PC and brought to life by the beta Schmap Player... more

If you want something more than a map to steer your travels, try Schmap's interactive destination guides, viewable in the company's free Schmap player software. more

Schmap offers nifty guidebook functionality on your desktop (Windows-only) PC. Basically, you install this little freeware app called the Schmap player, and then download guides for the cities you want to visit. The map functionality and controls are well-designed... more

Web-based mapping technology has really come into its own in the past year. Case in point: Schmap, a downloadable series of city guides for the U.S. and parts of Europe. First you'll need to download the freeware Schmap player. Then, just download the individual city maps... more

...Overall, the Schmap Player functions smoothly, and the interactive, dynamic presentation of the content is really impressive. Most of the functionality isn’t necessarily new, but Schmap has done a great job implementing the idea of embedded and linked multimedia content... more

Schmap's use of simple street maps results in extremely agile operation and dispenses with the need for a fast CPU... it could be one of the most successful applications of 2006. The reason: the raw material the guides use (texts, maps, images) is available... more

Superb travel tool built around an uber clever player which you download and which combines detailed information on city features with Flickr photos, animated tour guides and a places of interest search engine etc. Once it's fully populated it will be an awesome resource... more