GPSRecorder vs Cartograph 2 Maps

GPSRecorder turns your iPhone in a GPS tracker and recording device. Use it: - to record your position, - to record your moves,  - to geotag your external pictures. While recording, the app just gives you your current latitude, longitude, distance and duration of record. You can afterwards review your previous tracks on your phone, including map, distance and speed travelled, or export one as a GPX file for use with other software (GPX is lingua franca for locations), for example for geotagging pictures taken with an external camera. Continued use of Location Services running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life, so there is an economy mode that will only record notable changes (usually several kilometers away).

The Cartograph app views Mapsforge offline vector maps, offline raster maps, and online/WMS maps. It supports tracking, route search, overlays, hillshading, reliefs, track drawing, and has many other features. Cartograph Maps 3 is available here: https://www.cartograph.eu/v3/ ### Features ### - User interface languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese. - View Mapsforge offline vector maps (including v5 format). - Full support for Mapsforge styling/render themes (including hillshading) and layers. - Offline raster maps: Locus SQLite maps, MBTiles, TwoWays/CompeGPS RMAP*, Oruxmaps SQLite*. - Online map support (including WMS - Web Map Service maps), e.g. OpenStreetMap, OpenCycleMap, OpenSeaMap, WikiMedia hillshading, etc. - Import online maps easily from files: "http://www.cartograph.eu/help_onlinemapimport". - Offline hillshading (from HGT elevation data). - Offline relief shading. - Offline slope maps (experimental). - Contour lines (Mapsforge maps). - Worldwide, free offline maps. - Support for Mapsforge multi-maps (multiple .map files stitched into a single map). - Night/day mode. - GPS Track recording. - Manual track drawing and editing. - GPX import and export (basic KML/KMZ import support). - Import of photos with EXIF tags as waypoints. - Import of KMZ photo series. - Import Google Maps POIs/Places using Google Takeout data export function. - Upload tracks to Strava.com. - Route altitude profile and elevation/slope visualization. - Online route search. - Live tracking and polling (using custom server, GPSies.com, or Cartograph server). - Support for Mapsforge POIs, offline POI search, and dynamic POI loading. - Scalable interface (e.g. to increase button sizes). - Compass. - Units: Celsius, Kelvin, Fahrenheit, metric, imperial, nautic. - Decimal and degree coordinate modes. - Supports Mapsforge multi-language maps and POIs. - Map import: iOS 11 File Browser, Wifi upload, iTunes file sharing, internal download manager, and import using "Open in" from 3rd party apps like Safari, Chrome, DropBox, etc. - Voice/sound alerts along routes and waypoints. *EXPERIMENTAL* - WaterSupply.at drinking water sources. - Customizable user interface color (dark, light, and colors) and size. - 3D map snapshot view for an overview over the current map region. * RMAP and Oruxmaps use various map projections and support is experimental. Please contact us if a map does not work so that we can add support for your projection. Further information: http://www.cartograph.eu Getting started: https://www.cartograph.eu/gettingstarted Help&Tutorial: https://www.cartograph.eu/docs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cartograph.eu/ User manual: http://www.cartograph.eu/downloads/usermanual_en.pdf YouTube how-to videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9EOg5h3yY&list=PLP8X6xYv-qCz46hplsfGLW1LNgywBZrTk Please drop us a line if you have questions or feature requests: http://www.cartograph.eu/contact ### Maps ### - Offline Map Downloader (https://www.tequnique.com/offlinemapdownloader) - OpenAndroMaps.org: very good maps for outdoor activities.