UpNext: Three New Cities, Glowing Foursquare Checkins, And CityGrid Listings
Erick Schonfeld
Mar 10, 2010

One of the most detailed 3-D mapping apps on the iPhone is UpNext, which lets you click on 3-D buildings and see a list of the businesses and offices inside. Up until now, however, it only covered New York City.

A new update adds three new cities: Boston, Washington, D.C., and Austin (just in time for SXSW, of course). The Austin map won’t be available until later tonight, where it will appear in the app’s city selection screen. UpNext lets you zoom around the city in a very Google Earth-like fashion, search for restaurants, bars, and stores.

You can favorite and bookmark different venues, see Citysearch and Yelp reviews, and broadcast a tip about the place through Facebook or Twitter. UpNext now pulls in local listings data (addresses, phone numbers, reviews,menus, websites, photos) from CityGrid, Citysearch’s local content and advertising network.

And what would an Austin update be without Foursquare integration. Once you log into Foursquare through UpNext you can see where all your friends are checking in. The checkins are overlayed as glowing blue dots on the map.

Here’s a video demo showing off all the features of the app:

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  • JYapper

    Sweet. I’ve been waiting for an update for this app and it seems like upnext added some really nice features. Silky smooth exploration, a ton of deep features, and pretty intuitive. It just needs some more cities to really blow up. It’s truly a gem and it’s freakin’ free.

  • http://www.newhomessection.com Jayson

    That’s a pretty slick looking app. This is the first I’ve heard of it – hopefully, they’ll provide service to Phoenix soon. It’d be a nice tool to have when searching for a client’s office etc.

  • http://foursquarebadg.es/ varcon

    Leaked SXSW 2010 Foursquare Badges
    http://digg.com/d31L8dL?t

  • http://www.snooth.com Philip James

    Great job Danny, and co – you guys are a real bootstrap success story.

    PJ

  • http://sixx.se/nextgen/2010/03/10/kommenterat-av-stenbeck-10-03-10/ Kommenterat av Stenbeck – 10-03-10 — Next Generation Internet

    [...] UpNext: Three New Cities, Glowing Foursquare Checkins, And CityGrid Listings [...]

  • BoMama

    Love it! Is UpNext going to be available for other phones, or just iPhones?

  • http://www.igloosoftware.com Joy Wang

    Does this app support other smart phone other than iPhone? Does anyone have privacy concerns?

  • Ilan Ben Menachem

    same q. Joy Wang?
    Does this app support other smart phone other than iPhone?

  • http://proximateworld.com/2010/03/11/week-in-review-7/ Week in Review « PROXIMATE WORLD

    [...] 3D mapping app, UpNext added 3 more cities to NY (DC, Boston, Austin), shows Foursquare check-ins, and CityGrid [...]

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