Barrington Atlas Positive Reviews

Barrington Atlas App User Positive Comments 2024

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Barrington Atlas for Positive User Reviews

✓ Update: Reboot your iPadHad to restart my iPad and now it works great. Maybe add that to your product description. Original review: I have an iPad mini and I can't do anything in this app that doesn't cause it to crash. Zoom in on a map? Crash. Swipe to a new map? Crash. I love the atlas and was excited to have a portable copy, but not when it's so unstable..Jrstrang77Version: 1.0

✓ Finally works in iOS 8!The May 27 update finally fixed it! Now it is a great app, and worth every penny. Highly recommended..Hiway87Version: 1.3

✓ An absolutely essential app; please keep updating!I use this app on a daily basis as I go through my classical texts because I really like to be familiar with the geography of the text I am reading. The ability to search for a specific location and have the app zoom in on the map where that location is is priceless. Please, please continue updating this app for the newer Apple software releases!.Theocritus125Version: 1.8.0

✓ Barrington Atlas appThis excellent app is a must for those interested in the Classical world, whether they be undergraduates or research scholars.. It is comprehensive, accurate and very user friendly. It has all places, large and small (e.g.. Vindolanda in Britannia; or Hermopolis Magna in Middle Egypt), where the Greeks and Romans were involved. It delineates the main Roman roads and the topography of the area. The app is worth the cost and more, considering the printed version is close to four hundred dollars. That it is designed for I-Pads mades it portable and can be taken on tours of the Graec-Roman World.Thank you Princeton University Press for making this “must’ available at a cost for students..Marcus CiceroVersion: 1.1

✓ Good overall, but two problems.The first problem is a minor one: searching a place can finding the relevant map is somewhat slow. I don’t mean there are a number of steps involved in that, rather it takes a bit for the iPad to “think” its way through your search and find the correct maps. The second problem is a major one: if you search a place, and that search yields the first map (“1 Internum Mare”) as a result, tapping that result will ALWAYS bring you to map 1a, instead of map 1. This is a major problem, since map 1a is a relatively minor map (“Fortunatae Insulae”) when compared to map 1 (a map of the entire Mediterranean and its shores; your standard map of the ancient world). Other than those two complaints, this is a great app and very convenient to boot. It is much easier to have this atlas with me than to carry the large print edition around. The price may be steep for your average app, but the maps and information contained are worth the price..Achilles PeleidesVersion: 1.1

✓ Reason enough to buy an iPadSeriously. This is amazing. A searchable version of the entire atlas, with maps easily available to display in class or for research. I'm in awe. And for $20. This is the app my iPad has been waiting for, to justify its existence..KlytaimnestraVersion: 1.0

✓ Fantastic MapsWould look even better if there was an Apple TV version.MichaelDexBowlerVersion: 1.8.0

✓ Amazing AppUseful, easy to use and incredibly detailed..CappadocianVersion: 1.1

✓ 5 Star Content, 3 Star AppThe app needs a more intuitive may to navigate between the maps, it’s basically a confusingly organized PDF of insanely valuable maps. Ultimately the content is so valuable that I’m still very grateful they’ve released this as an app..FfgffdssdgVersion: 1.8.0

✓ Detailed Atlas of the Ancient WorldThis set of maps has just what I was looking for: a portable atlas of antiquity I can access easily. My only gripe is the zoom does not go far enough. On my iPad 2 I have to keep my fingers split to view detail..ZacctasticVersion: 1.1

✓ Reinstall App - gazetteer problems solvedOn latest largest size iPad Pro, IOS 11 fully up to date - Gazetteer, though updated to latest version, still displayed no content. Problem solved by delete and re-install. Now Gazetteer displays fine..PetaviusVersion: 1.8.0

✓ Beautifully craftedThis app packs in a phenomenal amount of research and detail as is a must for anyone interested in ancient history..MacedoncaVersion: 1.0

✓ Best ancient atlasThis atlas is fantastic and worth every penny of the £13.99 it costs, especially considering the price of the actual physical atlas is around £300! Among the functions available are a search for any ancient location. You can also see the modern countries superimposed on the main screen map if you wish..Streethawk4537Version: 1.1

✓ The Maps are luscious. App needs some work.This is a superb resource particularly if you think that the full atlas costs many hundreds of dollars. The maps are extraordinary to look at on an iPad Air. For a first effort, highly commendable. 4 stars just for making this data available at such an affordable price. I’ve got one or two observations for improvement, however. They are all in the main about the navigation of the maps, which prevented the 5th star being added to the review. - The navigation buttons, etc, are still IOS 6 style. - The page curling animation in the “introduction” section is cheesy. - Over half of the pages in the “introduction” are credits and preface. Perhaps split into separate documents? - The way it opens with two logos and stops at the second one is actually not a great iOS interface practice. It should open with the menu on the left open and ready to go. The app opens first with a Princeton Uni Press logo, and after this first logo splash screen, that you get another logo splash screen (the “Barrington Atlas Logo”). This second logo you have to tap or slide in order to reveal mere navigation (which would be zero cost to show first up!). This is doubly wrong. So far I’ve seen two logos and no functionality. When I tap on this second logo (and it’s a nice bit of art) all what happens is that the logo slides right a bit and reveals a menu on the left. That menu, with the lovely bit of Barrington Atlas artwork on the right, should be right there when it starts up, not the third screen visible. - By far, the most annoying thing about the app is, every time it starts, you have to go through the navigation of the logos all over again. If I background the app and then reload it, I have to navigate all over again to find the map I was looking at. So if I was reading some a text online with my iPad, and I wanted to consult the map, I have to start from the beginning (find the right map, zoom in to the map I was looking at) every time I open the app. When I switch back to reading, and want to look at the map again, I would have to find the entire map all over again. Which is a major interface failure. - When you go to the “maps” section with the “Cover Flow” style view, it’s slow, and not terribly responsive (on an iPad Air! I’d hate to try it on my old iPad2). Also, this is the area that seems to cause instability (it just crashed then I was verifying the behaviour as I wrote this paragraph). The app has crashed twice on me in this part of the navigation. - It’s not entirely obvious that up in the right hand corner there is a list icon which gives a simple list view of the maps, with a regional overview (not a tape target, annoyingly). To be honest, I find this view preferable to the “Cover Flow” view. But when I select a map, then go “back” to the Maps, I’m back at the “Cover Flow” view of the maps, not the list view I started from. - The best view of all though is the big overview map! However, can this be please made conventionally zoomable? If you wanted the ‘Attica’ Map (No. 59) there’s no way you could accurately select its tiny square in that view. There is a loupe device which appears when tap-and-hold but once it appears I could not work out how to accurately control it and better than just trying to tap the tiny targets. Just make this map zoomable with a pinch gesture please. - I wish the topographical measurements on the map were in metres - the international standard - not in feet. A minor quibble. Once they clear up the stability and navigational issues with the app, my additional feature wish list is pretty simple, although fiendishly complex to implement: Vector based maps with selectable period layers. I realise that would mean all-new cartography though and probably make the price a lot more than $20. My thanks to the team who developed and assembled this..ScotarttVersion: 1.0