Love It! Works Great…Must Have when no Cell Service.
Love It! Works Great….Must Have when no Cell Service.
Great app a bit complicated
Great app but requires some dedication to learn. It’s worth the time tho. Been using for several years for different scenarios. Always excels !!
Great Topo
What hiker wouldn’t want a sharp topo that doesn’t require a cell phone signal? And not expensive compared to buying todos for the entire eastern third of the country! Handy and a great value.
A map for the serious Adventurer
First of all, I used this app for navigating the Trans America Trail, from Tennessee to the Oregon coast. The trail itself consists primarily of unpaved and often unmarked roads. It did not disappoint. Over all I'd say that the maps was roughly 95% accurate, and rarely did a road not show up. A couple of two-track trails on the Utah/Nevada border, and the occasional dirt road.
The 3-D view helped define terrain markers and locate points in a real world reference which aided us greatly while looking for an elusive unmarked turn.
GPX files are easy to import, and being able to export breadcrumbs via email is fantastic.
I've tried many of the offline maps for overlanding and this one has by far been my favorite for close to 4 years now.
The 3-D view helped define terrain markers and locate points in a real world reference which aided us greatly while looking for an elusive unmarked turn.
GPX files are easy to import, and being able to export breadcrumbs via email is fantastic.
I've tried many of the offline maps for overlanding and this one has by far been my favorite for close to 4 years now.
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Gives Topo maps depth!
Rather than using your imagination to read topo sas many of us have done for decades, this app allows you to feel like you are in a valley or on a peak. Excellent app.
Need to work with it
Just tried 1st time with about a short hike. Tracked well. Maybe I missed it, but would be nice to have more detail available for a Track, such as elevation change, speed..etc. Also it seems you need to "play" the track to see it. Be nice just to get an overview of the track on a single screen. Maybe these are available and I just haven't figured it out. Should be inst manual on the iTunes app site.
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Big Disappointment
After paying $10 for maps east, it doesn't even compare to Google Maps (which is free) and shows a local neighborhood road incorrectly. Buyer beware!
Has potential
It's neat to be able to visualize an area to hike but when you zoom in to a 100 acre lot or so, it blurs badly. It would be awesome to zoom in better. As we all know, the land may look fairly decent from afar. The current zoom level is good for mountain climbers. I need to better visualize gullies, inclines and such.
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Navigation is messed up!
I bought this for a cross country trip based on the west map which impressed me. The east map navigation has numerous problems on my ipad2. It sometimes spins off in weird directions when I try to move left or right and then tries to sell me another map. Not cool!
Great Compliment to a Standard TomTom GPS in the Car
Used this fine application on a road trip this week along I-90 from NW PA to Chicago. I was driving through some of the most featureless landscape in the US, but I was amazed at the topographic detail shown on the map. I had no idea how many river valleys and lakes I had been driving by all these years.
Consumer TomTom and Garmins are great for telling you how long it will be until you get there, but there is nothing like looking overhead from ten miles above, having the whole map rotate around your current location in 3D as you drive along.
Yes, this app is relatively expensive compared to Angry Birds, but it's only half the price of a one-State gazetteer paper atlas and contains a lot more information on many States.
I use a Dual XGPS150A bluetooth GPS (highly recommended) with a second-generation iPod Touch. The Dual GPS pulls in about 11 satellites at once and is much more accurate than my TomTom or my wife's iPhone. The Scenic Map App never bogged down on this old iPod, even while driving through Chicago, which has an incredible amount of detail. I would love to see how it works on one of the new iPads.
Consumer TomTom and Garmins are great for telling you how long it will be until you get there, but there is nothing like looking overhead from ten miles above, having the whole map rotate around your current location in 3D as you drive along.
Yes, this app is relatively expensive compared to Angry Birds, but it's only half the price of a one-State gazetteer paper atlas and contains a lot more information on many States.
I use a Dual XGPS150A bluetooth GPS (highly recommended) with a second-generation iPod Touch. The Dual GPS pulls in about 11 satellites at once and is much more accurate than my TomTom or my wife's iPhone. The Scenic Map App never bogged down on this old iPod, even while driving through Chicago, which has an incredible amount of detail. I would love to see how it works on one of the new iPads.
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