Maptrails vs Eport Search Assistant

Maptrails is a modern map browser that packs an amazing experience for hiking, hunting, orienteering, or just enjoying your time outdoors. Only Maptrails offers full featured apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. The app comes preconfigured with a large selection of built-in maps in topographic, nautical, and aerial imagery styles. Save places as map markers that sync between your devices over iCloud. It is easy and fun to measure distances and draw paths on the map, or use Look Around to see street level imagery at any address. Maptrails Pro one-time purchase unlocks a professional grade feature set. Add your own maps and data layers from standard APIs, and bring in GeoJSON, GPX, IMG, KML or Shapefile data. You can even draw notes directly on the map using touch or pencil! Maptrails makes it easy to plan your upcoming hike by letting you download map tiles for offline use, view up-to-date weather forecasts, or draw tracks on the map and save them to GPX files. During your hike, record the route to a GPX track or workout in Health app, and graph out its speed and altitude data. For hunters, integration with Oma Riista lets you import hunting areas using area code. Share your current GPS location with a private group of other Maptrails users. Build your own dog tracker by installing separate Beacon app to another device and pairing it with Maptrails. Its position can then be tracked on the map in Maptrails. Maptrails Pro one-time purchase unlocks full functionality • Use folders to organize tracks and markers • Attach images to markers from photo library • Track other devices with Beacon app installed • Import hunting areas from Oma Riista service • Get weather forecast for targeted location • Draw notes on map using touch or pencil • Import tile maps from web using browser • Download map areas for offline use • Share your GPS location with groups • Draw tracks on map and save as GPX files • Import GPX files and view them on map • View workout routes from Health app • Record workouts and export to GPX • Add Vector Tile, Tile Map, WMTS and WMS maps • Add GeoJSON, GPX, IMG, KML and Shapefile map layers • Get new features in future versions If some map available via open data APIs is not yet included, or you want to make your maps available in Maptrails, please email me at feedback@freshbits.fi. Also follow on Instagram at @KartastoApp. This app has been built by one developer as a hobby project during many evenings and weekends. Please be nice and take this into account when giving feedback. Icon symbol credit to Wolf Böse (Creative Commons).

Search Assistant keeps a group together on one map. Picking mushrooms, walking a forest line, hiking with friends, or looking for something someone dropped — everyone taps the same link, picks a name, and immediately sees the same picture: the area you agreed to cover, where each person is right now, and which ground has already been walked. NO ACCOUNTS There is no signup, no email, and no password. Creating a search gives you a link. Anyone you send it to can join in seconds — from this app, or straight from a phone browser if they'd rather not install anything. DRAW THE AREA Sketch a polygon on the map and it appears for everyone in the search within a second. Name it, colour it, remove it when the group moves on. SEE EACH OTHER LIVE Turn on location sharing and your position streams to the rest of the group, and theirs to you. Tap someone in the list to centre the map on them. RECORD WHAT YOU'VE COVERED Start recording and your walked track is drawn on the shared map, so the group can see which ground is done and which is not — the single most useful thing when several people sweep the same forest. Tracks keep recording with the screen off, and can be exported as GPX. SHARE HOWEVER YOU LIKE Send the link in any messaging app, or show the QR code for someone to scan. SEARCHES DON'T LINGER A search expires on its own — by default a week after it's created — and the person who started it can rename it, clear the recorded tracks, or delete the whole thing at any time. Deleting removes every position, path, and area in it. PRIVACY No ads, no analytics SDKs, no trackers, and nothing sold or shared with anyone. Your location goes to the people in your search and nowhere else, and only while you have sharing or recording switched on. Full policy: https://searchassistant.eport.fi/privacy