New York City Launches CityMaps App to Help You Explore the City

New York City has launched CityMaps, an iOS map application that shows businesses as logos instead of pins.

Whether you're a tourist or a native you'll be navigating your city like never before. For the first time you can see every business in your neighborhood with just a single glance at the map. Click on a business to get all their information including phone number and hours, foursquare tips from previous customers, their most recent tweet, even if they're running a daily deal that you can take advantage of.

CityMaps shows you what's happening in your city right now. The bar on the corner just tweeted an awesome happy hour special. And the comedy club up the street just posted a Groupon deal for 87% off. A quick check of the menu for the French restaurant down the block, look at the foursquare tips, and then with a click your OpenTable reservations are made. Decide to take in a movie after dinner and you can easily buy tickets with up-to-date times and trailers, linked to Fandango. All of this from just glancing at the map!


CityMaps Features:
- Filter businesses by type to see only what you need on the map: Restaurants, Shopping, Entertainment, Bars & Nightlife, Hotels, OpenTable restaurants
- Complete business profile information including foursquare tips
- Real-time display of local businesses' tweets
- Real-time display of available daily deals from sites like Groupon, Living Social, Bitehunter, Restaurants.com and dozens more.
- Complete restaurant information including: menus, foursquare tips, and reservations via OpenTable
- Complete movie theater information including: movies, show times, tickets and trailers via Fandango
- Easily jump to any neighborhood in the city
- Easily center the map on your current location
- View parking locations and rates

What's New In This Version:
+ A number of minor and average bug fixes

You can download CityMaps from the App Store for free.

Read More [via Mashable]