swisstopo vs Floateers

On the road with the best app of the year: the swisstopo app won the "Master of Swiss Apps 2021" award. Use the famous national maps to discover even the most remote places in Switzerland and topics such as hiking, cycling, snow sports and aviation. All functions and data of the app as well as offline use are free of charge. The app is free of advertising and does not require a login. - all scales from 1:10 000 to 1:1 million - current aerial image and historical maps - official hiking, mountain hiking and alpine hiking trails - closures of hiking trails - snowshoe and ski routes - SwitzerlandMobility routes - public transport stops ON THE ROAD - free offline maps (1:25 000 to 1:1 million) - draw, record, import and share your own tours - set tour type (hiking, cycling, mountain biking) and personal pace - tour guide (arrival time, remaining distance) - panorama mode (labelled panorama, view tour in "3D") - save markers, add notes, share TOOLS such as measure, compare and search (for geographical names, addresses or coordinates) Report changes to maps and geodata AVIATION - aeronautical charts, obstacles, airspaces - landing sites - restrictions for drones and model aircrafts Do you have a question? Then write to us: support-cd@swisstopo.ch

Floateers turns the map into a grid of tiles — and every ride, run, walk or paddle collects the ones you cross. Watch your map fill up, plan routes through fresh tiles, and go get them. THE TILES • Red — tiles you have collected, from your outings and imports • Blue — tiles you plan to visit, claimed by the routes you sketch • Green — the frontier: uncollected tiles bordering yours, your natural next targets • Orange — tiles filled live during your current outing, with a buzz for every new one SEE Your collected and planned tiles on Google Maps, with every imported session's path and stats: distance, average and top speed, elevation, steepest gradient. Tap a session for its stats and a 10-second replay of the whole track at its real pace. PLAN Tap the map to sketch a route — it saves itself as you go and shows live how many new tiles it crosses. Drag points to refine it, and its tiles turn blue until you collect them. GO Record an outing and Floateers follows along, outlining your current tile and filling new ones orange as you cross them — including with the screen off and the phone in your pocket. Keep the map turned to your riding direction like a car nav, and when you stop, save the outing or discard it. Runs happily alongside the Floaty logger — and if you record in both, importing the Floaty session wins, so nothing is stored twice. IMPORT & EXPORT Import sessions from the Floaty app (GPX, JSON, CSV) or GPX/KML tracks from any other app — multiple files at once. Re-imports update instead of duplicating. Export any path as KML or GPX, share all sessions as one KML for Google My Maps or Earth, and move everything to a new phone with a single transfer file. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. Your tiles, outings and plans stay on your phone — nothing is uploaded anywhere. Inspired by the Floaty app, whose session exports Floateers imports — but it works on its own with any GPX or KML track. Not affiliated with Floaty or Google.