Being a fully paid up Luddite it would be nice to have either OS or Harveys maps on my Nokia Lumia 800. Which I am still trying to get to grips with...
I have inputted various things on the marketplace thingy but cannot find what I want. If indeed it exists. I would happily pay money for it. If I had maps on my phone I could plot new backpacking routes whilst stuck on the train/bus/pie queue. Any suggestions please.
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Not intending to be deliberately not answering the questions - I was about to post this
ukmapapp.com/
Which is excellent, gives you OS maps of the entire country, in freely downloadable chunks of your choice, and works a treat - on iDevices.
Then I realised yours is a Windows phone, so I post only in case some other iDevice owner wants the same thing.
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>> ukmapapp.com/
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>> Which is excellent
Well it ought to be for £8! :)
I guess he has to pay for the OS maps?
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£8 buys you the whole of the UK in 1:25000 and/or 1:10000.
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I don't think it does. It uses a composite source of maps. See link. Not the OS 1;25,000 Explorer or 1:50,000 Landranger maps.
The Explorer and Landranger series are still copyright and will cost you a lot lot more than £8 in electronic format.
ukmapapp.com/maps.html
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should have got an eye fone.
This is the best app ever for hiking and country walking
gps.motionx.com/iphone/overview/
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By Jingo, you're right CG. I hadn't noticed it wasn't the actual thing.
All I can say is we took it on our Hadrian's Way walk last year, and although we didn't need it I did pull up the map from time to time on the phone, and looked very OS 1:10000 ish, and certainly showed all we needed and where we were accurately.
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itunes.apple.com/gb/app/outdoors-great-britain-gps/id336150457?mt=8
I was looking at this a fortnight ago. This one apparently includes the 1:50000 of the national parks for free, and allows you to download chunks of map relatively cheaply.
If I know where I'm going, I use Bing maps for free OS maps on my computer and take a screenshot using the Snipping Tool and email a picture to myself. Alternatively, if there's no time/technology for that you can just take a photograph of the computer screen.
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Having a work phone with limited data usage I use an offline oriented app:
itunes.apple.com/gb/app/city-maps-2go-offline-map/id327783342
Downloadable maps/info of anywhere in the world for £2 (although I got mine free through AppGratis).
Doesn't do logging though; that Motion-X looks good. Would be interesting to compare with my Garmin GPS watch as a run logger.
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I use Navfree in my Android phone.
You can download an entire country in micro/SD card so can be used without internet connection.
Last edited by: movilogo on Tue 1 Oct 13 at 10:44
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I'm using OS Open Maps - a GPS navigation app with OS Maps, not sure if it's available for other non-iPhones, free app with no adverts and has a choice of map types and downloadable routes to follow.
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maps on smartphones - No FM2R
