Hey all,

A friend of mine pointed me to this app called Avenza Maps. FWIW, it utilizes a "geo-referenced" PDF and is fairly accurate when compared to Google Maps.

Toying around with it, I downloaded The Capital Forest map from the Washington State DNR, went up until I lost cell reception and took the coordinates and compared them.

Though its very minimalistic on what it can do, it will track where you are making a bread crumb track in the event you need to backtrack, measure distance, manually input coordinates and upload photos that are geo-referenced to the area.

What it doesn't do is route planning. You are able to input coords and open them up in google maps or apple maps depending on what you use, but it may not be a charted area (like apple maps is with Capital Forest). It also won't show your locale off map.

I am still toying around with it, but for a standalone app, it seems to work alright for me. There are maps for the Washington Bike Routes, but they're not geo-ref'd, but can be uploaded for uneditable viewing. The app is free as are the USGS maps available for download, but one set I was looking at was over 120 seperate maps (3gb worth). Nat Geo and some other maps cost.

Just wanted to share if anybody was interested.

Just remember the non pay version can only have three imported maps.

I thought it was it can only import 3 at a time? Took forever when I tried downloading the Olympic National Forest Maps, but it worked. Over 120 maps included....

Hi Guys and thanks for the shout-out on our Avenza Maps app.
We are not here to sell but rather just to clarify something referred to in an earlier post.
There is no limit, 3 map or otherwise, on maps acquired from the vast (750,000+ maps) in-app map store. Even if you only take free ones you are not limited at all if you get maps from the map store.
The 3-map import limit in the free consumer version of the app is on maps imported from external sources that you load yourself from other sources.
And yes, it is 3 at a time in such cases, not 3 ever.
If anyone has anymore questions or comments let us know at avenzamaps@avenza.com

Happy Trails
Avenza

Yes, 3 imported maps, not Avenza maps, at a time.