Central America Topo Maps

Easy to make use of outside and navigation app with 1:50.000 topographic maps of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

This app gives you similar mapping options as you might know from Garmin or Magellan GPS handhelds.

Main options for outdoor-navigation:

• Free bulk-download of map tiles for OFFLINE USAGE (NOT on this free model !)

• Create and edit Waypoints

• GoTo-Waypoint-Navigation

• Create and edit Routes

• Route-Navigation (Point-to-Point Navigation) (NOT in this free model !)

• Track Recording (with pace, elevation and accuracy profile)

• Tripmaster with fields for odometer, common speed, bearing, elevation, etc.

• GPX-Import / Export, KML-Export (NOT in this free version !)

• Search (placenames, POIs, streets)

• Customizable datafields in Map View and Tripmaster (e.g. Speed, Distance, Compass, ...)

• Share Waypoints, Tracks or Routes (via eMail, Facebook, ..)

• and many more ...

Available map layers:

• Topo maps 1:50.000 and 1:250.000 with seamless protection for Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Belize, Costa Rica and Panama are covered with 1:250.000 topo maps.

• Google Maps (Satellite photographs, Road- and Terrain-Map)

• Bing Maps (Satellite images, Road-Map)

• Open Street Maps (OSM Mapnik and Cloudemade Cyclemap)

• Hillshading overlay layer for OSM, Google or Bing maps

LIMITATIONS OF THIS FREE VERSION:

• Ads

• No Bulkdownload of maps for offline usage

• No Hillshading overlay

• Max. 3 Waypoints

• Max. 3 Tracks

• No Routes

• No import of waypoints and tracks

• No Bulkdownload

On the 1:50.000 maps you'll find many small roads, pathes and 4WD tracks that are not included in Google, Bing or OpenStreetMaps. The topo maps have a very detailed topography with contour strains. There isn't any different on-line mapping service/app obtainable that provides you extra detailed geographic features like rivers, lakes, hills, vegetation, villages, etc. for this region.

The topo maps layer is a seamless mosaic of more than 1000 georeferenced maps. Although a number of the maps are quite previous (production vary of the maps is 1955 - 2006) they're still superb for outside journeys, especially if you are looking adventurous routes or deserted places. Most maps of Guatemala are quite up to date (mostly created within the 90ies) while maps of jap Nicaragua were created in the 60ies/79ies. Within the app you can open an outline map with the publishing dates of the maps.

In bigger cities you will discover it extra usefull to change to Google or OSM maps but within the backcountry you'll acknowledge the relevance of enormous scale topographic maps.

The 1:250.000 maps are JOGs (Joint Operations Graphic) which represent a medium scale map meant as both a topographic and an aeronautical chart.

Use this navigation app for outdoor activities like mountaineering, biking, tenting, climbing, using, canoeing or offroad 4WD excursions.

Preload FREE map knowledge for areas without cell service.

The topographic maps are enhanced with Atlogis® hillshading and placenames.

Original publisher of the 1:50.000 topo maps : United States NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence), NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency), DMA (Defense Mapping Agency)

Original writer of the 1:250.000 topo maps: US NGA/NIMA JOG (Joint Operations Graphics)

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