CityPanorama

What is that tower over there? CityPanorama draws the city as you see it from where you stand — a line drawing of the skyline, with a name and a distance on every landmark. Like a peak finder, but for the city. WHERE YOU LOOK Hold the iPhone up and the drawing follows the back camera. Lay it flat and its top edge sets the direction. A sideways swipe corrects the compass where steel and concrete throw it off; the correction is kept. OVER THE CAMERA PICTURE If you like, the lines lie over the camera picture, coloured by distance: near orange, middle yellow, far light blue. You see at once which building is which. LANDMARKS, EVEN WHEN HIDDEN The TV tower, the radio tower, the big masts and the best-known places are always named. Where something stands in front, a dashed pointer shows where they are — just what you need to line up the compass. MORE THAN BUILDINGS Water in blue, large parks and woods in green, main roads in yellow, railways in red, the lie of the land in brown — each where it can be seen from your position, hidden parts left out. SET WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE • Detail: from “only what stands out” to every building with a known height • Height: stretches the silhouette up to 25 times, so flat ground becomes readable • Buildings: lowers only the houses, the ground stays • Angle scale at the edge, compass strip on top, compass rose below • Swipe the settings down when you only want the picture ANYWHERE IN BERLIN By GPS from where you are, or from any point you tap on the map — Viktoriapark, Teufelsberg, the TV tower’s viewing platform. Set your eye height, from the pavement to a roof terrace. NO NETWORK, NO ACCOUNT The city data is in the app. No account, no ads, no analytics. Your location and the camera picture never leave the device. GOOD TO KNOW The data currently covers Berlin only. Buildings are drawn where OpenStreetMap knows their height — most of the notable ones, but not every house. The app speaks German. Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); terrain: Mapzen Terrain Tiles.