Transform your phone into a powerful offline GPS navigator using topographic maps! AlpineQuest, a comprehensive solution for all outdoor adventures, eliminates the need for cellular data. This app offers unparalleled offline functionality, allowing you to access and store a wide variety of online topographic maps, even in areas without cell service. It supports numerous onboard raster map formats as well.
No ads, data sharing, monetization, analytics, or third-party libraries are used. Your privacy is paramount.
Leveraging your device's GPS and magnetic sensor, AlpineQuest provides real-time location tracking and compass functionality, eliminating the risk of getting lost. The map dynamically orients to match your view.
Create and share unlimited placemarks, track your routes, and access advanced statistics and interactive graphics. The app is designed for deep wilderness exploration, remaining fully functional even without cellular coverage.
Download the free Lite version today! For suggestions or issues, please use our dedicated forum: https://www.alpinequest.net/forum (no registration required).
Key features (full version):
Maps:
- Integrated online maps (with automatic local storage; road, topo, and satellite maps included) and online layers (road names, hillshade, contours).
- Easily access additional online maps and layers from the community maps list.
- Comprehensive offline map storage for offline use.
- Onboard offline map support (raster) including KMZ Overlays, OziExplorer OZFx2, OZFx3 (partially), calibrated images, GeoTiff, GeoPackage GeoPkg, MbTile, SqliteDB, and TMS zipped tiles. (Use MOBAC, a free map creator, available on our website.)
- QuickChart Memory Map support (.qct maps only).
- Built-in image calibration tool.
- Digital elevation model (DEM) onboard storage and support for HGT elevation files, enabling terrain, hillshade, and steep slope displays.
- Polar map support.
- Multi-layered map display with customizable opacity, contrast, color, tint, and blending.
Placemarks:
- Create, save, and restore an unlimited number of waypoints, routes, areas, and tracks.
- Import/export GPX, KML/KMZ, and CSV/TSV files.
- Import ShapeFile SHP/PRJ/DBF, OziExplorer WPT/PLT, GeoJSON, IGC tracks, Geocaching LOC waypoints, and export AutoCAD DXF files.
- Share locations online with the Community Placemarks feature.
- Detailed statistics and interactive graphics.
- Time Controller for replaying 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 with battery level and network strength recording.
- Proximity and leave-path alerts.
- Barometer support (compatible devices).
Additional Features:
- Multiple distance unit options.
- Various latitude/longitude and grid coordinate formats.
- Import support for hundreds of coordinate formats from https://www.spatialreference.org.
Version 2.3.8d (Aug 14, 2024):
Improvements include a customizable menu bar, enhanced Android compatibility, a refined backup/restore tool, a new default URL for sharing coordinates, a customizable "Media" folder for storing data, and new Croatian and Persian translations. Various bug fixes are also included.
