Schmap is a publisher of well over 200 free online travel guides. They have now made all of this handy information available via a new web app. The site has travel guides for the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and proves to be extremely useful for any tourist.

These guides will provide you with information on everything you would ever need to know about a city including info on the historical side of the city, places to eat and drink, and major sites of interest.

“As portrayed in the image above, the web app utilizes the iPhone’s gyro sensors and a Safari specific Javascript function to determine how the device is currently oriented, and swaps between two display modes accordingly. If the device is oriented vertically, points of interest are displayed as a simple list; if horizontal, the points are overlaid on a map of the area. This allows the user to jump back and forth between modes without having to dig through menus, and is an ingenious way to make the most of the available screen real estate.”

[Via TechCrunch]