# Blaze - Bring Your Own Maps — Carry the maps you already own

> Carry the maps you already own (iPhone/iPad app by RICHARD DAVID DORT.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blaze-bring-your-own-maps/id6800540891 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [RICHARD DAVID DORT](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896501926)
- Category: Navigation, Travel
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 10 MB
- Released: 2026-09-08
- Data updated: 2026-10-02
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blaze-bring-your-own-maps/id6800540891/reviews.md

## What is Blaze?

Blaze carries the maps other people made.

The paddling and backcountry maps you bought, and the free topographic sheets
governments publish — imported once, drawn on your phone, and readable with no
signal at all.

BRING YOUR OWN MAPS

• Esri tile packages (.tpkx) and MBTiles are read exactly as they came. No
  conversion, no re-compression, no waiting: a 1.5 GB map is ready as soon as it
  has finished copying.
• Garmin and Google Earth overlays (.kmz) are redrawn into tiles once, when you
  import them.
• Import from Files, from a share sheet, from AirDrop, or by pasting a direct
  link to a map file.

FREE MAPS, ALREADY CONVERTED

A built-in directory of government topographic sheets you can download inside
the app — Canadian CanTopo and CanMatrix from Natural Resources Canada, and
historical quadrangles from the United States Geological Survey. Every entry
shows its licence and its download size before you tap, and a map installed
from the directory keeps its attribution beside it, always visible.

Where a map is not free, Blaze tells you where to buy it. It never serves a
publisher's bytes on their behalf.

BUILT FOR NO SIGNAL

Imported maps are offline by construction. A coarse basemap of the whole of
Canada can be downloaded before you leave, so there is ground under your maps
even where nothing has been published.

Stack several sheets, set how strongly each one draws, and jump straight to a
map that is hundreds of kilometres away rather than hunting for it by panning.
Rename any map that arrived carrying a filename instead of a place.

RECORD WHERE YOU WENT

Start a track and it keeps running with the phone in your pocket. Mark a spot —
a take-out, a campsite, a fallen tree — and export the whole trip as a GPX file
to whatever you use at home.

Battery saver stops drawing the base map entirely. Under a full-screen imported
map there is nothing to see underneath it anyway, and not drawing it is work the
phone does not do.

NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE

No account. No sign-in. No sync. Your tracks and waypoints are written to your
device and stay there; they leave only when you export a file yourself. Blaze
has no way to send them anywhere, and that is a property of the code rather than
a promise about our intentions.

Maps are fetched from a static file host. Nothing about where you are, where you
have been, or what you have marked is ever sent with the request.

WHAT IT IS NOT

Not a trail directory. No reviews, no ratings, no photos, no feed, no
leaderboards. Blaze carries maps and records where you went, and it is finished
at that.

Ground map © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 0.8 — 2026-10-01

Your walks, on the map.

• Your track and waypoints draw on the map, over every imported sheet
• Your last walk stays on the map when you open the app again, and you
  can show any earlier walk or hide it
• Every walk shows its distance and time, without counting the drift a
  GPS reports while you stand still
• Give a waypoint a name and a note, and jump to it on the map
• Delete a walk you do not want; the waypoints you marked on it are kept
• Drag imported maps into the order you want them drawn
• Built for iOS 27
• Fixed: on iOS 17, importing a map from a link did nothing

Still a beta. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account.

### 0.7 — 2026-09-07

No release notes.

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