Good value for the price - Four Stars

I have been looking for the ability to map all of my contacts in an area so that when I travel to a region for business I can see the location of all my customers and arrange the trip accordingly.

This application solves the need that I have had for a long time.

Plus points
- The application successfully takes the contacts from the address book and accurately puts them on the map - sounds simple but so many apps usually fail here.
- The application does what it says and when I type in an address it shows all of the contacts within a reasonable driving distance. For example when I entered Cincinnati contacts out as far as Columbus, Dayton and Cleveland were shown.
- You can enter the desired location in many ways - zip codes, towns and cities - even abbreviations such as LA were recognized.
- You can enter a location or use the current location.
- The app seems to use google maps to show the location so the display is very familiar.

Negative points
- The map function does not allow all contacts to be viewed on the map at once, you must enter a location and only contacts around that location will be shown. If for example I enter Philadelphia, I cannot then scroll across the map to see contacts in Boston - they wont be shown. I would need to enter Boston as a location to see them.
- Every time that I enter a new location, the app scans through my 1000 contacts in my contacts list to see who is close to the location. This can take 20 seconds or so.

Overall I would say the the Plus points significantly outweigh the negative points. None of the negative points are deal breakers, where as the plus points are all great. I am happy to solve the need I have had for a long time for only $0.99 and the need to wait 20 seconds is not really too much time to wait considering that it saves me probably 10-20 minutes of searching through my contacts and mapping them individually on google maps.

Update to review - I use this app all of the time. IOS 6 is now out and it doesnt use Google Maps any more. I want to upgrade to IOS6 but I am worried whether or not this app will work with IOS 6. It would be useful if the developer could comment on this matter.

MRK66 about Map For Contacts