Self-Published Mobile Apps

Mapocosm offers a fast and inexpensive way to get a feature-rich mobile app into the market. Using your location-based content, Mapocosm will customize its Map Explorer app to create a unique experience for your users or customers. With your app, you can charge a fee, post it for free, distribute it privately, or have Mapocosm post it.

For example, check out this mobile app tour guide for Boston:

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Many Kinds Of Apps!!

Here are just a few examples where location-based mobile apps can be a huge benefit to organizations of all sizes...

• A real estate agent publicizes her current inventory of properties, complete with pictures and descriptions, and even brags about past successes.
• A logistics company provides a mobile app for drivers or customers to quickly find any of their locations.
• A college campus provides a mobile app to all students, faculty, and visitors, showing all building locations with pictures, descriptions, and phone numbers.
• An outlet mall takes down their confusing directories that never seem to be where you need them, and provides a free mobile app directory to all shoppers.
• A park ranger needs to give visitors up-to-date maps with trails, facilities, first aid, marked off-limits zones, and park features to visit.
• A franchise would like their patrons to easily find any of their restaurants and get photos, hours of operation, and phone numbers.
• The owner of a golf course wants to market to newcomers before they visit, and give a gift that is useful to members and their guests.
• The organizer of a First Night celebration has dozens of venues, each with a schedule for the night's activities, with phone numbers and links.
• A town's chamber of commerce or scout troop makes a fundraiser by charging local businesses a fee to be showcased in a mobile app about their town.
• A non-profit would like to publicize their many projects to potential donors as a mobile app, instead of all those mailers that get thrown away.
• A county fair publishes an app showing all visitors the locations and descriptions of each vendor or service provider.
• Hikers, bikers, skiers, and runners like to share trail information, and clubs can use a mobile app to recruit new members and help visitors get oriented.

How To Create Your Own Mobile App

By entering your content into a geographic website such as Google Maps My Places, your can create a rich multimedia experience complete with a wide range of location services. No special skills are required. The result is a highly useful app that can not only display your locations and descriptions, but also get directions, search for locations, and much more. The location-based experience is deep enough to create far higher user adoption rates than simple mobile apps based only on web content.

Standard Feature Set

• Mobile app builds for both Android (released) and iPhone (in development)
• Custom map and multimedia content is bundled with the app, so no other downloads are required for the user to get started
• Explore the details of points of interest, including descriptions, photos, and links to websites, email, and phone numbers
• Search nearby your location or any point of interest
• Show search results on the map or show location details from Google Places
• Get directions to any point of interest or any result of searching nearby
• Show directions route on the map or get a text listing
• Save a list of favorite search results and specific locations

Customizations

• App title, icon, splash screen
• All geographic features as imported from a KML File
• "More" page is customer-defined web content that can also link to other pages 
• License agreement
• Change various default app settings

See For Yourself, No Cost

You can use Mapcosm's Map Explorer app to try this out for yourself at no risk! Here's how:

1. Enter your locations and content. Go to Google Maps My Places, and click on the red button "CREATE MAP".
2. Name your map, enter all locations and descriptions, and save your content.
3. Your saved map will have some links that look like the image to the right. Right-click on the "KML" link and copy the link address.
4. Paste this KML link in an email to yourself (or someone else). 
5. Download and install Map Explorer Pro to your smartphone (Android only is supported at this time). 
6. Open email on your smartphone, find your message and click on the KML link.
7. The Map Explorer Pro application will be launched and your map and content will automatically start to download. 
8. Explore and enjoy!

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