US Topo Maps Free

Easy to use outside navigation app with free access to the best topographic maps and aerial photographs for the USA.

*** Please use USGS National Map or OSM should you need most recent maps ***

Choose between 20 map layers (topos, aerials, sea charts, flight charts, ...)

Turn your Andoid Phone/Tablet into an outside GPS for journeys into the backcountry.

This app gives you similar mapping options as you may know from GPS handhelds.

Main options for outdoor-navigation:

• Download of map tiles for OFFLINE USAGE (PRO-VERSION ONLY !)

• Display Real-Time nowCoast Weather Information and NEXRAD Weather Radar

• Free entry to more than a hundred.000 seamlessly stitched USGS topographic maps - simple to make use of as browsable map layer

• Create and edit Waypoints

• GoTo-Waypoint-Navigation

• Create and edit Routes (PRO solely !)

• Route-Navigation (Point-to-Point Navigation)

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

• Tripmaster with fields for odometer, common velocity, bearing, elevation, and so on.

• GPX/KML/KMZ Import/Export

• Search (placenames, POIs, streets)

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

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

• Use coordinates in WGS84, UTM or MGRS/USNG (Military Grid/ US National Grid)

• Get NWS Weather Forecast

• Track Replay

• and tons of extra ...

Available map layers:

• USGS DRGs: Seamless protection of topo maps of the USA at Scales 1:250.000, 1:a hundred.000, 1:63.000 and 1:24.000/25.000

• USGS High Resolution aerial imagery

• USGS National Map

• Orthoimagery for conterminous US

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

• Bing Maps (Satellite images, Road-Map)

• Open Street Maps

• Earth At Night

• FSTopo Forest Maps

• NOAA Nautical RNC Charts

• Public Land Ownership (Padus)

• Flight Charts

Available map overlays:

• Hillshading overlay layer for OSM, Google or Bing maps (PRO-VERSION ONLY !)

• Ridge Weather Radar NWS

• Wind, Temperature, Pressure

• Wind Vectors

• Precipitation Estimate - 1-hr

• Precipitation Forecast 24h

• Surface Air Temperature

• Hazard Warnings

• Tropical Cyclone Track

• Wind Vector Forecast 24h

• Max. Air Forecast 24h

• Min. Air Forecast 24h

USGS DRG topographic maps:

The 7.5-minute maps (1:24.000/1:25.000) are one of the best maps for out of doors actions in the USA. Although a few of the maps are fairly old, they comprise many small pathes and 4WD tracks which are lacking in new USTopos, Google, Bing and OSM maps.

New US Topo Maps:

US Topo maps are a graphic synthesis of The National Map information recordsdata and are produced within the acquainted 7.5-minute by 7.5- minute geographic format. Current US Topo map layers include an orthoimage base, transportation, geographic names, topographic contours, boundaries, hydrography and woodlands. Also included are the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) and the United States National Grid.

NAIP Orthoimagery:

Seamless coverage of contiguous US with 1m/pixel resolution

HRO aerial imagery:

High decision arial pictures masking US urban areas borders (up to 10cm/pixel)

Use this navigation app for outside actions like mountaineering, biking, camping, climbing, using, snowboarding, canoeing, hunting, snowmobile excursions, offroad 4WD excursions or searchrescue (SAR).

Add custom waypoints in longitude/latitude, UTM or MGRS/USNG format with WGS84 datum.

Import/Export/Share GPS-Waypoints/Tracks/Routes in GPX or Google Earth KML/KMZ format. (PRO-VERSION ONLY !)

View Real-time nowCoast weather information like temperature or windvectors and overlay to map.

See animated NEXRAD rain radar to make accurate predictions when raining will start/stop (PRO-VERSION ONLY !).

LIMITATIONS OF THIS FREE VERSION:

• Ads

• No Bulkdownload

• No new) US-Topos layer

• No Hillshading overlay

• Max. 3 Waypoints

• Max. 3 Tracks

• No Routes

• No import of waypoints and tracks

• No Local City DB (Offline Search)

Please ship feedback and have requests to [email protected]