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What's the best Andriod app that displays OS maps (Landranger or Explorer), and also caches them so they work without a mobile signal?
Are there any for free? If not; what are the cheapest? I imagine you have to pay for the Ordnance Survey maps - I only need some areas of the Peak District at the moment rather than entire UK.
Cheers!
There is a freebie Memory Maps app that reads OS type maps that you can store on your phone's internal memory. You can 'apparently' find these maps on some torrent sites I'm told ;-0
It doesn't do full blown tracking but iirc it can show your current loaction via your onboard GPS though.
I use Viewranger. You can download 1km square 'tiles' of OS maps so you can choose the bits you need.
Excellent support.
www.viewranger.com
2nd viewranger. Excellent bit of kit. You can cache free maps (like bing and opencyclemap) for off line viewing or pay for proper OS maps. They have loads of good foreign ones avilable, too.
PS; Drop me an email (in profile) if you are interested in buying it as I can register you so we both get some free OS map credits 🙂
I use Backcountry Navigator. you can cache all the OS and you can do GPS Tracking and export it as a GPX file. there is a demo version available so you can try it first and then its only 7 quid.
Third for Viewranger, excellent piece of kit.
I will say on a related note that it's ace that multimap/bing do OS mapping, and version 1.8 of MOBAC was most excellent software.
Coincidentally, Alpinequest is a great app.
Make of this information what you will...
Maverick Pro - does everything you've asked for.
Just surf the route at home, the route caches to the SD card, and you then access it out on the hills.
Nickjb, what's this freeby that I don't know of? Is it a referrals thing?
+1 for viewranger
Viewranger here too.
Basically, yes. Pop your friends email into the Viewranger website and when they register you both get some free credits.Nickjb, what's this freeby that I don't know of? Is it a referrals thing?
Can Viewranger be installed on sd card?
RMaps on your phone. Mobile Atlas Creator on your PC. Choose the Multimap/Bing OS maps as your source in MAC, create your map and download the tiles. Copy file to phone and voilá! You now have OS mapping of your choice for offline use.
If that's too fiddly, RMaps and various others will also connect to OS maps directly for online use.
+6 Viewranger
Its installed on my Symbian sd card, so I expect it can on Android too.
Fantastic app. Saved 8 of us stuck up Scaffel a few months ago in zero vis, just followed the crosshair 🙂