Map, Schmap.

Stumbled across this great little download via the Vancouver Flickr Group. In a nutshell, Schmap is a dowloadable city guide. You install the player and then can choose guides for a number of cities. Currently, most of the guides are for North American cities, but there are quite a few for Europe and even a couple for Australia, and likely more to follow.

The guts of it is the central map which shows the whole city, or a section of the city. You can then choose to show places like pubs, restaurants, museums etc.
Clicking on a place on the map displays information about it in the right-hand paine such as a review and contact details. Pretty handy for findiing places when you don't know the city. You can also bookmark your favourite places for future reference or use the search function to find places of interest. No doubt not every place is included, but it's a start.

The player and a guide is about 2MB and are free. Check it out at http://www.schmap.com/