Detector Maps 6.0.0 is our biggest update yet. CARPLAY Plug your iPhone in and your map is on the car's screen. It follows the car and shows your layers, waypoints, finds and Trails, plus the land and tenure under you. Start a Go to from your saved waypoints or the car's own search and get turn by turn directions with spoken guidance. Record a Trail or mark a waypoint from the car. Detector Maps also appears on the CarPlay Dashboard. GETTING TO THE SPOT - Drive and follow roads to any waypoint, dropped pin, search result or shape, with spoken directions, distance and arrival time. - Drive then walk: the drive ends nearest the spot and the walk carries on from where the sealed road ends. - Off road routes on foot or bike: follow tracks and paths, take the ridges and spurs with Bush basher, or go straight line. - A ring around your location arrow shows which way to walk. TRAILS, REBUILT - A live panel while you record: time, distance walked, metres climbed, your elevation now, and finds marked. - Pause and resume without ending the Trail. - Trail replay: watch your day redraw itself with your finds appearing where you logged them, then export it as a video to share. - Trail overview with an activity timeline, elevation profile and your finds. - Trim a Trail to cut off the drive in and the drive home. - Trails+: every Trail you have walked on one map, as a heatmap or honeycomb coverage, coloured by walking, detecting and stopped. YOUR DATA, BACKED UP - Automatic private backups. Your data copies itself to your own iCloud Drive whenever it changes. Nothing to set up. - Turn sync off and your data stays on this iPhone only. - A new Storage screen shows exactly what the app is keeping on your phone. NEW ON THE MAP - Active Fires (Australia): live satellite hotspots drawn as a glow, updated every 10 minutes, with sliders for how recently seen and how precisely placed. - Apple Maps as a basemap. - Roads as their own layer, with category filters. - Far deeper layer filters for QLD, NSW, VIC, WA, NT and SA: search tenements by holder, filter geology by rock type, and a Gold host rocks only switch. - Tap anything and get a clean bottom sheet, with the feature marked on the map. Large leases now select in full. - A layer information sheet on every layer. DRAW, MEASURE AND IMPORT - Draw polygons, lines and grids, edit their points on the map, and measure distance and area. - Rebuilt importing: KML, GPX, GeoJSON, CSV and TCX from Gaia GPS, Avenza Maps, Google Earth or a GPS unit, plus Trilobite backups, geochemistry CSVs and your own georeferenced maps. We read the file first and show you what is inside before anything lands on your map. OFFLINE - Rebuilt Offline Maps with ready made areas, a detail screen for every saved area, live progress, and a download that picks up where it stopped. - Choose which LiDAR renderings to keep. - Imported maps and LiDAR packs now keep drawing with no signal. NEW HERE? A guided first run from Tom and Matt, then five short in-app lessons on your own map. Find them any time in Settings, Map, In-app Tutorials. FREE PLAN Gold occurrences and the tenement, claim and finds layers are now free Australia wide and switched on by default. All of Palmerville Station in Queensland is free on every plan, and you can claim one free offline area anywhere. Saving new offline areas is now part of the paid plans; areas already on your phone stay where they are. FASTER AND STEADIER Quicker launches, smoother maps and a long list of fixes, including imported maps and LiDAR going blank with no signal, and trimming a Trail that had a duplicate copy.

• Faster start-up. The app opens in seconds even after a long Trail recording, and the map works while the rest of the recording loads. • Smoother map with lots of saved Trails. They draw faster and no longer slow the app down. • No more surprise logouts on patchy signal, like driving out of wifi range. You stay signed in. • Cleaner launch. No more white flash when the app opens.

- Trails now appear automatically in map view - Offline maps revamped - Bug fixes

- Bug Fix

- Bug Fixes

- Bug fixes

- Mange your device permissions through the app - Bug fixes

- Export trails upgrade - Bug Fixes

- Weather in Fahrenheit - Performance Upgrades

- Trails not displaying in some cases - California Forest Service layer now renders (zoom 12–16) - Historic Topo bug fix - Android layer panel bug fix

- Bug Fixes

• Weather for detectorists — live conditions and a 7-day outlook for exactly where you're standing, right at the top of the layer panel. Tap any day for wind, rain chance and a quick "worth getting out?" read. • Drop a pin — long-press anywhere on the map for coordinates you can copy or share, distance from your location, the weather out there, and a one-tap Add Waypoint. • 3D terrain revamp — flip the new 3D toggle and the map tilts into view automatically. Drag with two fingers to change the angle. • Waypoints, levelled up — 16 colours with a new colour picker, icons and labels that scale as you zoom, creation dates in the popup, and tighter add/edit sheets that stay above the keyboard (much nicer on iPad too). • Import everything — KML, GPX, TCX, GeoJSON and CSV all supported. Trails, waypoints and areas each land in the right place automatically, including Trilobite exports and GPS tracks recorded with pauses. • Trail recordings now show how long you were out. • Offline downloads are sturdier — failed areas retry and the rest keep going. • Crash fixes across the board for a smoother day's detecting. Happy hunting!

- Bug Fixes

- Bug Fixes

NEW: COIN & RELIC FOR THE USA Detector Maps now covers coin and relic hunting nationwide, not just gold country. Choose Coin & Relic when picking your region and hunt old towns, homesteads and long-forgotten ground — coast to coast. NEW: Detector Maps Academy A built-in crash course on the whole app — 34 short video lessons, most under a minute. Layers, LiDAR, waypoints, trails, offline maps and Pro tools: watch in order or jump straight to the tool you need. NEW: Detector Grids Plan complete, methodical coverage of an area with adjustable search lanes you can follow while recording your trail. NEW: Historical Maps Catalog Browse a catalog of historical maps and overlay them on today's map to see what stood there a century ago. NEW: Cross-Platform Map Syncing Your geo-referenced maps now sync between your phone and the web app — research at the desk, detect in the field. Plus bug fixes and performance improvements throughout. Happy hunting — Matt & Tom

Offline LiDAR Download high-resolution LiDAR hillshade for any area and use it fully offline. We check coverage before you download, so you never waste space on an empty area — then show live progress as your terrain saves. A dedicated Offline LiDAR toggle lets you switch your saved hillshade on and off anytime. Perfect for reading the lay of the land in remote spots with no reception. Available in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, California, New Zealand, British Colombia. Rebuilt location & trail tracking We upgraded our core GPS engine for more accurate, more reliable tracking in the field: • A smoother, more accurate location puck — now consistent on iPhone and Android, with the right heading whether you’re walking or driving • More dependable trail recording, with automatic resume if the app is closed or interrupted mid-recording • Better follow-mode that keeps you centered and steps out of the way the moment you pan the map • The map now reopens right where you left off, instead of jumping to the middle of nowhere • More reliable background tracking and improved battery behaviour Faster and smoother A big performance pass across the map means smoother panning and quicker response. Plus: • Ground Scanner — swipe through your result photos full-screen • Import your own maps as JP2 and PDF, with a new georeferencing flow • Export selected items from My Data • Tap overlapping mining claims to see every claim at that spot • Lots of smaller fixes and polish Happy hunting!

Our biggest update yet. Two big Explorer upgrades, included on every plan: • Image georeferencer — drop your own maps onto the live map: old leases, historic scans, even a photo or screenshot, pinned to real coordinates so you can navigate straight off them in the field. Now with uploads up to 1GB. Supported formats for GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG, JPG. • Community maps — unlimited access to maps shared by fellow detectorists and prospectors, ready to load straight into your own setup. New region: British Columbia, our first in Canada. Improved: New Zealand, rebuilt from the ground up. New Pro Subscription (Australia, British Columbia and New Zealand): • Report search — search a database full of exploration reports by keyword, company or commodity in each region. The map lights up as a heatmap of mentions; tap a hotspot point to open the reports underneath. • Activity alerts — know the moment ground changes, with daily tenement, claim and permit alerts (available to all US users). Plus performance improvements and bug fixes.

Bug fixes

- Performance Upgrades

Bug fixes

- Introducing Community — connect with detectorists across the country, show off finds, and unlock achievements & prizes as you detect - Backend rebuilt for serious speed and reliability improvements

- Preparation for new feature - Bug fixes

- Bug optimisations

- Improvements and optimization - Geochemistry element filter

- Added 50+ new USA layers to all 15 states - Improved layer performance - Updated legends and icons - Enhanced popups - UI improvements