Place: Explore the Outdoors

Place: Explore the Outdoors

Field Guide to Any Location

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Place turns any location into a rich, human-readable field report — instantly. Tap anywhere on the map, drop a pin, search by name, or use where you're standing right now. Place assembles terrain, geology, hydrology, land ownership, ecology, climate, and more into a clean, layered profile you can actually read in the field. UNDERSTAND ANY LOCATION Select a place and Place builds a complete picture: elevation and terrain shape, bedrock geology, watershed and stream network, land status and ownership, ecoregion, climate snapshot, and nearby species observations from iNaturalist. All from authoritative public data sources — USGS, NHDPlus, BLM, USFS, and more. GEOLOGY, IN DEPTH Read the bedrock formation beneath you in plain language, see the region's named rock layers stacked in order, and follow a synthesized "geologic story" of how the ground here came to be. Discover nearby named landforms and glaciers, and — from the Paleobiology Database — what lived here in deep time. BIODIVERSITY CONTEXT See modeled species richness for any point, broken out by birds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles, with a switchable map overlay. LAND OWNERSHIP & PARCELS Know who owns the ground you're standing on — federal, state, tribal, or private — down to the tax parcel: owner, size, and parcel ID, plus a legal township/range description. See parcel boundaries as a map overlay, tap any parcel to identify it, and get an owner breakdown along every segment of a recorded route. GPS TRACKS Record your route with onX-style GPS tracking. Place logs your path in the background with the screen off, captures elevation and pace, and lets you export to GPX, KML, or GeoJSON. Import tracks from other apps. View your route on a topo map with an elevation profile. Free users get up to 3 saved tracks; Pro unlocks unlimited recording and import/export. MAP OVERLAYS Layer real data over the terrain: USGS topographic maps, BLM surface management, federal land boundaries, hunting and fishing districts, geology, biodiversity, property parcels, waterfalls and rapids, contour lines, hillshade, satellite imagery, and more — 36 specialty overlays in all. THEODOLITE AR Point your camera at a mountain and see its name, elevation, and distance projected live over the scene — with a 3D terrain wireframe mesh and a real-time instrument HUD showing your heading, pitch, and altitude. HUNTING & FISHING Montana hunters and anglers: tap any location and get land ownership, access status, and regulation context. View switchable hunting district overlays by species. Access the full Montana FWP regulation database. Pro + Montana add-on. SAVED PLACES & FIELD NOTES Save any location with a note, photo, sketch, and category glyph. Places sync privately across your devices via iCloud. Tap a saved place to pull a fresh report anytime. Share any report, place, or track as a free web link. SIRI & WIDGETS Ask Siri to open a saved place or report spoken field conditions. Live Activity shows your track stats on the Lock Screen while you hike. Home Screen widgets display recent places and track stats at a glance. APPLE WATCH Start and stop GPS track recording from your wrist. See recording status and elapsed distance on a watch complication. OFFLINE & RESILIENT Reports cache automatically so you can read them without signal. Offline grace keeps your Pro access and trial active when you're out of reach. PLACE PRO Unlock the full instrument: every report section, unlimited saved places and tracks, all 36 specialty map overlays, import/export, offline maps, Theodolite AR, PDF export, and full Apple Watch field workflows. Even on the free plan, one Pro report section is unlocked free every week. Try Pro free for 7 days, then $49.99/year or $5.99/month. Place is built for people who spend time outside and want to understand where they are — not just navigate through it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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What's New in Place

1.1

August 11, 2026

This release answers three questions Place couldn't answer before: is it dangerous here, can I drive there, and may I fly here. Hazards, free for everyone — active National Weather Service watches and warnings for the spot you're looking at, today's avalanche danger and forecast zone, recent and historic earthquakes, drought status, soil burn severity with post-fire debris flow risk, and recorded tsunami runups. These are the answers with a safety consequence, so they're free whether or not you have Pro. Where there's no avalanche forecast, Place says so plainly rather than implying the slope is safe. Road Access — road class and what vehicle a route actually requires, from passenger car through high clearance to four-wheel drive. The new roads overlay colors every road by that requirement, and closed roads get their own switch so they don't bury the answer to "where can I drive." Drone Flight — FAA airspace and the land manager's ground rules, kept separate on purpose. Legal airspace over a unit that bans launching isn't permission, and Place won't let one read as the other. Nearby public-use airports are marked as context. Dispersed Camping — a suitability read on BLM ground, drawn from surface management and access. It tells you where camping is plausible, not where a campsite is. Weather on the map — radar, rain accumulation, snow depth, and a traditional weather chart you can step across three days. In the report: measured conditions from the nearest station, surface smoke, aurora outlook, fire weather, and terrain shade — when the sun actually clears the ridge, which is rarely sunrise. Living Landscape — protected species habitat, what's actually growing here, and how far along spring is at this spot. All free. Trip Journal — your tracks, saved places, and observations, grouped into the outings they came from. Open a trip to see everything in the order it happened, then jump to any of it on the map. Navigate — bearing, distance, and which way to turn toward any point. Not turn-by-turn, because most of where you'll use it has no trail to follow. Directions still hands off to Maps for the drive to the trailhead; Navigate takes you the rest of the way. Layers & Sections rebuilt — map layers and report sections now live on separate tabs with search, so finding one thing among two hundred takes a moment instead of a scroll. Switching a layer off on the map now drops its section from your report too. Faster reports — sections no longer wait in line behind the slowest one. Reports you've opened before come back nearly instantly. Also fixed: several sections that quietly vanished on a second visit, weather overlays that couldn't draw or refresh, a drought reading frozen at the week we shipped it, roads missing their outline, and the offline map list you couldn't scroll past.

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