Map Wanderer
Topographic hiking & trails
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Plan the route, record the walk, read the land. New in 1.1: optional iCloud or Google Drive sync, and honest stopped time on every track.
Map Wanderer is a topographic map made for the outdoors and is a great teaching aid for map and compass.
An outdoor map for people who actually go outside.
Plan a route before you leave, record the walk or the ride as you go, and pin what you find along the way. Everything you save lives on your phone. There is no account to make, no ads, and nothing about you is collected or sold.
PLAN
• Walking, cycling and hiking routes with distance, time and an elevation profile
• Save routes, rename them, and load one back onto the map when you set off
• Export a route or a recorded track as GPX
RECORD
• Background GPS tracking with live distance, pace, ascent and descent
• Elevation and speed charts you can pinch to zoom
• Honest stopped time: real stop detection with a stop count, and you decide what counts as stopped
• Spots impossible GPS fixes and offers to correct the track rather than quietly inflating your climb
• Put a saved track back on the map and walk it again
MARK
• Markers with notes and photos, in colour-coded categories
• Photo pins sit where you took the photo
• Trips, favourites, find-nearby, and MGRS grid references
READ THE LAND
• Hillshade relief so the terrain reads at a glance
• Contours, buildings, roads, water and cycle routes as separate toggles
• Tap anything on the map to identify it
• A legend for every map symbol and every route colour
FIELD TOOLS
• Compass with a target bearing
• Sunrise, sunset, solar noon and day length, plus the watch-north method
• Unit converter
BUILD A TRAIL
Lay out a numbered trail with waypoint symbols, then share it by QR code. The other phone scans it directly. No server, no link, no sign-up.
WET WEATHER GAMES
Pairs, Grid Hunt, Spotter and Trails & Ladders: map-symbol games for the tent, the train or the pub.
OUT AND ABOUT
Walk to collect cards scattered across a play area near you. Choose the size and the rules, and share the area with a friend by QR code.
YOUR DATA, YOUR RULES
Everything stays on your device by default. If you want it on more than one, switch on sync to your own iCloud Drive or Google Drive, held back to Wi-Fi unless you say otherwise. You can also back the lot up to a single file and restore it later.
In English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Croatian, Hungarian, Slovak and Slovenian.
Note: Map Wanderer draws its map and plans its routes over the network, so it needs a connection for those. Your recordings, markers and trails are always readable offline. Map data by MapTiler and OpenStreetMap. Routing by OpenRouteService.
Lace up and go — Map Wanderer is ready when you are.
Ratings & Reviews
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You can now turn on iCloud or Google cloud sync of your map markers and saved routes.
GPS anomaly corrections - you decide if a sudden GPS drop to 0m was real or not.
Better recording - stopped time is in your control and shown on saved routes.
Map symbols and route colour meanings are now available from the map itself.
Pinch and zoom on saved charts.
The developer, PowerSlave Developments, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Dominic Frazer
- Size
- 53.9 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © PowerSlave Developments