En Madrid does exists many public and „open” WLAN Access Points. But without a flat­rate for the mobi­le pho­ne they haven’t a per­ma­nent con­nec­tion to the inter­net. That’s dis­agree­ab­le espe­cial­ly if they is at a new city and get lost.

The maps app­li­ca­ti­on on the iPho­ne (and may­be with the iPod Touch also) can be used off­line for this too. As soon as you are on a place which you will pro­bab­ly visit more often, you can „save” this place as a bookmark.

If you want later go the­re again, you can select this book­mark y redu­ce the view of the map. Now you can see your actu­al posi­ti­on and your desti­na­ti­on. And thank’s to the com­pass you can strai­ght go in the cor­rect direction.