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  • Excellent value

    The app is a great value at the price. Don’t get suckered into paying yearly subscription fees from other “free” maps. No more credits to buy tiles for offline downloads.

    The app allows for unlimited offline map downloads and geospatially
    tracks activity very accurately.

    I emailed the maker and asked for the option to add waypoints and create tracks. Hopefully those get added soon!

    Thanks!
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  • Doesn’t zoom in enough and no offline maps

    Tried to download offline maps and even if I tried small areas I couldn’t get it to work.

    Price is good and developer responds to emails.
  • Useless!

    I wanted to see a map of elevation in my local area, but this app is useless! I can see elevation lines but there seems to be no way to actually read the height. It could be that the numbers are extremely tiny, but there is also no way to zoom in because the map disappears when you zoom in too far.
  • Amazing app with even more amazing support

    Honestly I wish every app had the level of support behind it that this one does. I wanted to buy it for my hikes in areas with no data service, and liked what this one had to offer. I still had some questions though before purchasing, so I emailed developer. Within a few hours, I had a reply answering my questions. I bought the app and I’m extremely pleased with how it operates. But I’m even more impressed with the support. Since then, I’ve emailed with more questions and get a reply back immediately. Thank you for setting the bar (actually going way beyond) of what should be expected from app developers. I will recommend this app and your other apps to everyone I know.
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    Developer Response

    Thank you for the review!!!
  • Horrible on Apple Watch

    The whole reason I downloaded this app was so I could see the topo map on my Apple Watch to not have to get out my phone at every turn. Shows time, distance and elevation gain. No map. No other stats. Very under developed for Apple Watch. Don’t use if you’re looking for a watch app.
  • Great job

    Love being able to go back and forth between USFS and USGS!
  • Works Great When Working

    Been using the App to track my hikes since 2019. Wanted to achieve 1,000 miles in a year but sadly lost approximately 200 miles when the App stopped tracking after about a mile. I depend upon accurately tracking my hikes to get donations for homeless and disabled veterans. Losing miles means losing donations.
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  • disappointed

    does not zoom in far enough, does. or show enough details, does. it have a search feature
  • Great!

    High quality maps and good interface
  • Planning & Navigation

    Pros: 1. Download a topo for a hike.
    2. Once tracking is started, a satellite view is presented.
    3. You can use tracking mode with satellite view to plan. I discovered this while reviewing a recent hike because there was an old logging road on the satellite view that was not on a topo or Google Earth.
    4. Mileage is good.
    Cons:
    1. I like the satellite view, but it hides the Topo map & thus the trails during a hike. Haven’t figured out how to surmount that.
    2. Unless you are in cell range, elevation gain is always way low. Even if you just took your lowest elevation and subtracted it from highest, Topo Maps would be low by at least 25%.
    3. Thus far, I cannot find anyway to drop a waypoint or plan a track — e.g., using
    Topo as a planning tool.

    That said, I love using it for planning & hiking new areas.
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