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Plan your own routes from a variety of activities
Be safe with the best maps, trail networks and current conditions
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Wikiloc is a place to discover and share the best outdoor trails for hiking, cycling and many other activities
Record your own routes on a map, add waypoints, take pictures along the itinerary and upload them to your Wikiloc account from your phone
what3words is an easy way to identify precise locations. Every 3m square has been given a unique combination of three words: a what3words address. Now you can find, share and navigate to precise locations using three simple words.
Use what3words to:
- Help emergency services know exactly where to find you
- Plan exact meet-up locations
- Tell car breakdown services where you are
- Navigate to any destination easily
- Save your favourite memorable spots – a viewpoint, waterfall or proposal location
- Save key work locations, from incident reporting to delivery entrances
- Help people find your business or Airbnb
- Guide people to accessible entrances.
Example: Wally Lewis’s statue outside Suncorp stadium is at ‘issue.skills.driver‘
Offline Mapping
Avenza Maps, #1 app for hiking, biking and all trails. Featuring maps from National Geographic, national parks and many more!
On your next adventure, stay on track with GPS using offline mobile maps. Make your own maps? Import your own custom maps and never get lost off the grid.
Explore the largest mobile Map Store of hiking, topographic, cycling, city, nautical, travel, and trail maps. Featuring maps from professional publishers including National Geographic. Discover maps for your next camping, fishing, or backpacking trip with your family and friends. Navigate confidently when off-roading or taking those backcountry trails. Precisely identify your location with what3words and stay safe wherever you are.
AllTrails is your guide to the outdoors! Discover the best hiking, running, and biking trails around the world.
Explore 100,000+ hand-curated trail maps plus reviews and photos crowdsourced from millions of hikers, mountain bikers and trail runners. Find that dog-friendly or kid-friendly trail that you’ve been searching for. Take that mountain biking or backpacking trip you’ve always dreamed of. Explore a national park, or discover new hiking trails in your area.
RECORD YOUR ADVENTURES
- Turn your phone into a GPS activity tracker and follow your trail so you don’t get lost
- View your hiking, running and cycling stats at a glance
- Share your outdoor adventures with friends and family on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more
SAVE YOUR FAVORITE TRAILS
- Explore all the trails on your bucket list and add new ones to check out
- Easily save your favorite trails to run, hike or bike
- Follow the hikers, cyclists and runners that inspire you
EASILY GET TO THE TRAIL
- Get detailed GPS driving directions directly to the trailhead
Turn your iPhone or iPad into an outdoor GPS or marine chart plotter, with the detailed Topo maps or NOAA marine charts needed for your activity. Maps are stored on the device for offline use, when you don’t have any network connection. The GPS will show your location even where you have no mobile phone signal.
The app can be used standalone, but the maps and overlay data may also be used on your home PC or Mac for planning, and for printing maps on paper. Then upload everything to your phone or tablet and enjoy navigating outdoors with high quality maps.
When you get home you can transfer your tracklog and points of interest back onto your computer, to see where you actually went, analyze your speed and elevation profile, and so on.
The mountains are calling! Explore more mountains than any mountaineer! PeakFinder makes it possible… and shows the names of all mountains and peaks in a 360° panorama display.
This functions completely offline – and worldwide! PeakFinder knows more than 350’000 peaks – from Mount Everest to the little hill around the corner.
Compass Eye
Compass Eye can be used to help with navigation on land, sea or air as a bearing or marching compass.
Compass Eye is fully gimballed and works accurately in all orientations and angles, unlike most compass apps which only show the correct heading when held level and close to horizontal.
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a beginner, this app makes it easy to plan, track, and share orienteering courses. With features such as interactive maps, compass, and tracking, you’ll learn the sport quickly.
This app makes it easy to find the direction and distance to where you want to go by using the built-in compass, the GPS, and Apple maps. You line up your position (the GPS position) on the map with your destination by moving and rotating the map using one or more fingers. Turn the phone/tablet until the compass needle fits into the compass orienting arrow. Then the phone/tablet points in the direction towards the destination. Just like classical orienteering with compass and paper map. Alternatively the map can be locked to the compass such that north of the map is always the same as real north irrespective the orientation of the phone/tablet. Also the compass has a ruler such that you can measure the distance to where you want to go.
Features:
- The compass can orient the map with the landscape automatically or you can orient the map yourself
- You get the distance and direction to where you want to go
- Supports SI, imperial, and nautical units
- Makes orienteering easy
Footpath lets you map routes in seconds. Whether you prefer the simplicity of running or riding without a phone, forgot to record a GPS track, or want to plan out your next walk or race, Footpath allows you to map out your routes quicker and easier than ever before, all without GPS.
Spyglass is a powerful toolkit that contains augmented reality navigator, a compass for off-road, a hi-tech viewfinder, milspec compass, gyrocompass, maps, tactical GPS, waypoint tracker, speedometer, altimeter, gyro horizon, sniper’s rangefinder, coordinate converter, sextant, inclinometer, angular calculator and zoom camera. Tag, share, find and track your position, multiple locations, bearings, Sun, Moon and stars, all in real time.
Spyglass
Provides easy access to the location information on your device! It shows the current latitude/longitude as well as your altitude. Altitude can be viewed in meters or feet.
Contains images of all 40 of the international code flags, along with abbreviated usage descriptions for each flag. The app is designed to be used as a reference tool for recognition of the flags and interpretation of their meanings when displayed by merchant ships, warships, fishing vessels and private yacht.
