Hiker: Offline Trail Maps

Route planning Tap two points on the map and Hiker plans the walk between them. Tap more to extend it, or drop one beside a leg you've already planned and it offers to route you via there instead. Tap a point again to take it out, and undo takes back the last change. • Hiking, walking, mountain bike or road bike — hiking prefers trails and accepts steep ground • Recommended or shortest, and you can rule out ferries, river crossings and steps • Up to fifty points, replanned as you edit What the walk is actually like "1100 m of climb over 14 km" describes a steady valley path and a flat approach followed by a wall — different days out. So the panel shows the shape, not just the total. • An elevation profile coloured by gradient — the wall is the dark red part • How far you'll be on made ground and how far on unpaved, in kilometres • Paths, tracks and roads broken down the same way, plus the trail's grade • Colour the line on the map by surface or by steepness • Climb and time measured from the terrain itself, so they match the trail figures elsewhere in the app Keeping a route, and sending it on A saved route keeps its whole line on the phone rather than just its end points, so it opens in a car park with no signal — which is where it will mostly be opened. Give it a name and a note ("park at the church; last water at the refuge") and it's in your library. Send it on as GPX for a watch, GPS unit or another walking app, or GeoJSON for anything that draws maps. Your own places Press and hold anywhere on the map — or tap a fountain, hut or summit the map already draws — and keep it, under the name you'd use, with the note nobody else has. "Spring above the col. Dry in August." • Colour-coded categories, made as you go • Your markers over every basemap, at every zoom • Tap one on the walk to read back what you wrote Search Summits, huts, springs, towns and trail numbers. Places from the map you've already downloaded come first and need no signal; the wider world is added when there is one. Library Downloads is now Library: your routes, your places and your offline maps in one list — everything you have with you when the signal goes. Mountain Finder Point your phone at the mountains and Hiker names them. Rather than floating labels over a camera image, Hiker draws the horizon from real elevation data — so it knows which summits are genuinely in view and which are hidden behind the ridge in front of you. A peak 40 km away won't be labelled through a hill 3 km away. • Every named summit within 100 km, with height and distance • Works offline once an area has loaded — no signal needed on the mountain • Works in cloud, after dark, and from your armchair The sun, over your actual skyline See the sun's path across the day, and — more usefully — when it clears the ridge you're actually looking at. In a valley that can be an hour after the almanac's sunrise. Hiker gives you the real time for where you're standing. The night sky 1,600 stars, two dozen constellations and the bright stars named, fading in through twilight as the real sky does. Tap the star button to see it in daylight. Also in this release • The route planner no longer sits on "planning" when the routing service answers with something it doesn't recognise — it now says so and keeps your waypoints • A saved route with one damaged section now opens as usual rather than not at all • Tapping export twice no longer reports a failure for a share sheet that was working • Clearer wording when a café or hut Wi-Fi intercepts the connection rather than passing it on • A route deleted from the library no longer shows as saved in the planner • Fixed the compass calibration prompt appearing when the compass was working correctly • Clearer messages when terrain or summit names can't be downloaded, instead of an empty view • More reliable downloads on weak mountain connections