HikeGPS: Offline Trail Maps

A trip computer, like a handheld navigator. Tap the gauge on the map for a full screen of large, live figures: speed, elevation, ascent and descent speed, grade, vertical speed, distance, heading, coordinates, time and battery. It works whether or not a hike is recording, keeps the screen awake, and has a Big Numbers mode for a glance in the sun. Hold a field to swap it for another. Search the map, with or without a signal. A search box at the top of the map looks through the trails and places in front of you, everything you have saved, and the trail names inside your downloaded areas, which are kept on the phone when a download finishes. Type a coordinate and it takes you there; a typed coordinate is never sent anywhere. With a signal the wider trail index joins in; without one, nothing waits for it. A finished hike can no longer be lost. The recording is held until it is safely stored, and if that fails you are offered Try Again instead of an empty screen. BUILT FOR NO SIGNAL • A downloaded area is used the moment the map is over it, with no wait for a network check and no flip back to the online map when the connection recovers • Elevation profiles read the terrain you downloaded before asking the network, so climb figures work in airplane mode • A hike that iOS stopped in your pocket is recovered the moment the app relaunches, before anything touches the network • The Lock Screen card no longer disappears after eight hours, and the widget stops counting while you are paused • Pause and Waypoint stay within reach when the hike panel is collapsed, and pausing no longer freezes your position • Changing tracking accuracy applies at once, and Low Power Mode or a battery under 20% offers a one-tap switch to Battery Saver • A hole in a track now says why it is there, so a gap can be explained rather than guessed at GETTING THERE • Press and hold a place and HikeGPS works out a walking route to it from the paths on your downloaded map, on the device, no connection needed • Routes prefer trails and take a road only where a road is the only way through. The turns are written down • The route arrow turns with the map when the map turns with you WEATHER AT THE TRAILHEAD • Check the forecast where you stand and see it again with no signal, labelled with how old it is. Walking on no longer hides it • Your position is rounded to about a kilometre before a forecast is asked for, when you open the weather screen or start a hike OFFLINE MAPS • A slow moment no longer ends a large download: a timed-out tile is retried while the download keeps going • A finished area shows the space it actually uses, and "Large downloads on Wi-Fi only" now does what it says ALSO • The camera is the iOS camera again, full screen, with nothing of the app drawn over its controls • Auto-pause: stand still and the hike pauses itself, then resumes once you walk on • If location access is taken away mid-hike, HikeGPS says so and offers to open Settings • On a fresh install the map opens on your own position • Paragraphs that had shipped in English everywhere are now translated