Transform your smartphone into a robust off-road GPS with offline topographic maps using AlpineQuest! Enjoy a seamless experience with no advertisements, no data sharing or monetization, no analytics, and no third-party libraries. AlpineQuest is your ultimate companion for a wide range of outdoor activities and sports, including hiking, running, trailing, hunting, sailing, geocaching, and off-road navigation.
With AlpineQuest, you can access and store a vast array of online topographic maps locally, ensuring they remain available even when you're out of cell coverage. The app also supports numerous on-board file-based raster map formats, enhancing your navigation capabilities.
Utilize your device's GPS and magnetic sensor (complete with a compass display) to pinpoint your location in real-time on the map. The map can also be oriented to align with your direction of view, making getting lost a thing of the past. Save and retrieve an unlimited number of placemarks, share them with friends, track your path, and access advanced statistics and interactive graphics to enhance your outdoor experience.
AlpineQuest remains fully operational even without cell coverage, making it perfect for exploring deep wilderness areas. Don’t hesitate, download the Lite version for free now!
For any suggestions or issues, please report them on our dedicated forum at https://www.alpinequest.net/forum (no registration needed, and all questions are answered) rather than in the comments section.
Key Features (Full Version):
★★ Maps ★★
- Built-in online maps with automatic local storage, including road, topo, and satellite maps, along with online layers like road names, hillshade, and contours.
- Access additional online maps and layers with one click from our community maps list, covering major worldwide maps and numerous local topo maps.
- Complete area storage of online maps for offline use.
- Support for on-board offline maps (raster), including KMZ Overlays, OziExplorer OZFx2, OZFx3 (partly), 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 transform any scan or picture into a map.
- Digital elevation model on-board storage (1-arcsec SRTM DEM) and support for HGT elevation files (1-arcsec and 3-arcsec resolutions), allowing display of terrain, hillshade, and steep slopes.
- Support for polar maps (Arctic and Antarctic).
- Display multiple maps in layers with control over per-map opacity, contrast, color, tint, and blending.
★★ Placemarks ★★
- Create, display, save, and restore an unlimited number of items such as waypoints, routes, areas, and tracks.
- Import and 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.
- Access details, advanced statistics, and interactive graphics for various items.
- Use the 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 (on compatible devices).
★★ And More ★★
- Support for metric, imperial, nautical, and hybrid distance units.
- Various coordinate formats including Latitude/Longitude, UTM, MGRS, USNG, OSGB, SK42, Lambert, QTH, etc., with on-map grids display.
- Import hundreds of coordinate formats from https://www.spatialreference.org.
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.3.8d
Last updated on Aug 14, 2024
2.3.8b/c/d
- Added a new setting to customize the display style and side of the menu bar.
- Enhanced support for recent Android versions.
- Improved the backup and restore tool.
- New default URL when sharing coordinates as text.
- Ability to set the application's "Media" folder as default for placemarks, icons, pictures, and file-based maps.
- Added Croatian and Persian translations.
- Various improvements and bug fixes.
