AlpineQuest Off-Road Explorer
Turn your Android device into a real off-road GPS using off-line topo maps!
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No advertisements ~ No data sharing & monetization ~ No analytics ~ No third party libraries AlpineQuest is the complete solution for all outdoor activities and sports, including hiking, running, trailing, hunting, sailing, geocaching, off-road navigation and much more. You can access and store locally a large range of on-line topographic maps, which will remain available even while being out of cell coverage. AlpineQuest also supports many on-board file-based raster map formats. By using the GPS and the magnetic sensor of your device (with compass display), getting lost is part of the past: you are localized in real-time on the map, which can also be oriented to match where you are looking at. Save and retrieve unlimited placemarks, share them with your friends. Track your path, get advanced statistics and interactive graphics. You won’t have anymore questions about what you can accomplish. By staying fully operational out of cell coverage (as often in mountain or abroad), AlpineQuest assists you in all your desires of deep wilderness exploring… Don’t hesitate, try the free Lite version right now! PLEASE report suggestions and issues on our dedicated forum https://www.alpinequest.net/forum (no registration needed, all questions answered) and not in comments. Key features are: ★★ Maps ★★ • Built-in online maps (with automatic local storage; road, topo and satellite maps included) and online layers (road names, hillshade, contours); • Get more online maps and layers in one click from the included community maps list (all major worldwide maps and many local topo maps); • Complete area storage of online maps for off-line use; • On-board offline maps support (raster) including KMZ Overlays, OziExplorer OZFx2, OZFx3 (partly) and calibrated images, GeoTiff, GeoPackage GeoPkg, MbTile, SqliteDB and TMS zipped tiles (visit our website to get MOBAC, the free map creator); • QuickChart Memory Map support (.qct maps only, .qc3 maps not compatible); • Built-in image calibration tool to use any scan or picture as a map; • Digital elevation model on-board storage (1-arcsec SRTM DEM) and support for HGT elevation files (both 1-arcsec and 3-arcsec resolutions) allowing display of terrain, hillshade and steep slopes; • Polar maps (Arctic and Antarctic) support; • Multiple maps in layers display, with per-map opacity/contrast/color/tint/blending control. ★★ Placemarks ★★ • Create, display, save, restore unlimited number of items (waypoints, routes, areas and tracks); • Import/export GPX files, Google Earth KML/KMZ files and CSV/TSV files; • Import ShapeFile SHP/PRJ/DBF, OziExplorer WPT/PLT, GeoJSON, IGC tracks, Geocaching LOC waypoints and export AutoCAD DXF files; • Save and share online locations with other users using Community Placemarks; • Details, advanced statistics and interactive graphics on various items; • Time Controller to replay time-tagged tracks. ★★ GNSS Position / Orientation ★★ • On-map geolocation using device GNSS receivers (GPS/Glonass/Galileo/…) or Network; • Map orientation, compass and target finder; • Built-in GNSS/Barometric track recorder (long tracking capable, running in a separate and light process) with battery level and network strength recording; • Proximity alerts and leave path alerts; • Barometer support (compatible devices). ★★ And more ★★ • Metric, imperial, nautical and hybrid distance units; • Latitude/Longitude and grid coordinate formats (WGS, UTM, MGRS, USNG, OSGB, SK42, Lambert, QTH, …) with on-map grids display; • Ability to import hundreds of coordinate formats from https://www.spatialreference.org; • …
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Genre
Maps & Navigation
Rating
PEGI 3
Release
Mar 28, 2010
Last Update
2.3.9b • Various improvements and bug fixes. 2.3.9a • Added ability to display photos of all recorded tracks as previews over the map (“Placemarks” menu → “Displayed placemarks” → tap the eye at the right of “Photos”); • Added ability to view the EXIF information of photos; • Sunrise and sunset times are given in both device and screen-center time zones.
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Reviews
Donald Sutton
This was a great app and have used it for a year extensively. In March the track recorder started just logging straight lines between points the recording the track for a bit and then recording a straight line again. This seemed to stop, but this last week this has been painful, I cannot record a track at all. It is pity as I really enjoyed using this app.
Felipe Santos
I've been using this app for years and IMO it's the best offline hiking map app out there. It's full of excelent features, I'm still finding new ones, GPS tracking is fast and precise and battery consumption is super low! I keep my phone in airplane mode with GPS on and it could probably last some 3 days (s20) if you don't use it for anything else.
Tomislav Nikčevski
Excellent app for orientation with basic and advances features. Pay once to buy instead of the now classic monthly subscription payment, and recommendation by experienced fellow mountaneers is what brought me to alpineQuest and I'm glad It did. I recommend it
Sebas Kyrylyszyn
Just subscribed to get the 4U european topo maps BUT doesn't work!!! Posssible quick fix !?
Eric Scherer
I use this for hunting whitetail. Satellite, topo, Lidar and more.
Kevin Osicki
Excellent app, highly recommended as my personal favorite hiking app. I love the map customization layers, multiple base map options, the downloading sections of the map to plan ahead for no service areas. The export and import features are great to get GPX or other format data into and out of the map and sync back to my Garmin and strava fitness logs. Be sure to set permissions to keep logger going when screen is off. Kudos to the developers on a great product, keep up the great work!
Fabian Riedel
This is hands down the best offline navigation and mapping app available, unfortunately only on Android. The next best alternative is a dedicated handheld GPS. We use the app for geo and mining field work.
A Google user
If you're like me and tried a lot of offline map apps for hiking specifically and never found that Goldilocks "just right" one, then stop right here and purchase AlpineQuest. The base offline map collection (including topo) is so strong you don't need to buy external maps which is a major frustrating issue with many others, pay 4 bucks for the app and then have to pony up 50 more for add-on maps. You can adjust the opacity of map layers too which allows you to create and save a favourite of contour lines, hill shadings and trails to your liking. You can create your own trails and export them in any of the major formats from .GPX to .KML with ease. I tested this on a 12 K hill hike and worked flawlessly.
A Google user
Don't make the same mistake as me. Although the developers state that Alpinequest can be used with Memory Map files, this is only true for the older styles of maps (qct). If you look carefully at the compatibility table on their website AQ cannot use the new MM files (qc3) which I use so the app is really useless for me, though it does have good features for those who don't need MM compatibility.
Phoenix PSR
One of the best offline maps App. If possible following features can be added 1. Simultaneously setting two targets, so that info regarding distance and bearing of two different targets can be shown . 2. Timestamping for the Track recording to know the time at which we were at that particular position on the track. It will be very helpful features if added. Thanks
Chris Reef
Use to be dependable tracking app for hiking in the backcountry. Had no problems for years. Became "pro" from a update. Now it's worthless. It's failed to track my path properly the last 3-4 times i used it. If I was depending on it to get out, I would have got lost. This is a bad review. Avoid this app, could get you killed if your depending on it.