Point Inside is another worthwhile holiday shopping and travel tool

@Kleinias I'd have to agree - This app is pretty kickass and is way better then all the one off mall applications (i.e. Westfield, Simon etc).

@JKT - I have yet to find a mall that "has gone out of business" on the App. So it doesn't have the little strip malls... big deal, you don't get lost in a strip mall. It does have most the large & medium sized malls in the US. And has all the malls by me.

@BigBadBandit - agreed... there aren't any malls outside the US and Canada, but at least they've mapped a lot of the huge airports in Europe including FRA and MUC and it looks like the will keep adding more.

Many of the malls have to grant permission prior to mapping.

Absolutley pointless outside the USA. Nearest mall is just about 3000 miles away - when I was standing right in front of one of the biggest malls in western Germany...

Back to the drawing board guys.....

Sometimes applications like this sound good in theory but don't actually work all that well and are a little gimmicky. Surprisingly, I actually find "Point Inside" useful and generally pretty helpful. It's free and one of the nice features is that it uses gps to try to show you where you are in the mall or airport (it places your gps location inside of the airport or mall layout).

There are a few improvements that should be made (some of them have been mentioned) but I think this free app is worthy of at least giving it a shot to see if it works out for you.

The eSkyGuide app from GoldenWare is worth checking out for flight schedules, status, weather, airport finder and contact info.

Michelle
@eSkyGuide

"Some malls that have been long out of business are listed, while many current malls simply aren't there."

That's a much bigger negative than you're making it out to be. Bad data can quickly ruin such an app.