This is a great unexpected surprise as judging panel of the Mobile Application of the 2011 year in Czech selected iKatastr. This is a great satisfaction as unlike previous idea “MapShake” that has been realized on www.mapshake.cz generated no attraction, iKatastr is complete opposite. With MapShake, however, I have realized something important - simplicity. Although MapShake.cz and the iPhone application “WhateverMap 1.0″ released in 2009 enabled to view cadastral maps , it was not straightforward, not explicit. With Jiri Kaminek working on Whatevermap 2.0 engine in the whole year 2010 we were about to do the same mistake for iPhone – release a universal map composition app. In fall 2010, Jirka was in Sweden and was finalizing Whatevermap 2.0 with some great demos. Fortunately MapShake failure warned me just in time and we agreed to make the iKatastr as pilot of the Whatevermap 2.0 engine. The idea was simple - let’s take the universal Whatevermap 2.0 engine and create single purpose map application of iOS. Jirka has done a great job. And another great thing is that Whatevermap 2.0 is working fine, is configurable remotely (all map definitions are stored on server so we can update them independently from the AppStore upgrade process) and moreover if you know how to define your own map composition – you can load into iKatastr literally whatever map :).
