Kartasto 4+

Map browser for hikers

Pasi Salenius

    • 5.0 • 2 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Kartasto is a modern map browser that packs an amazing experience for hiking, hunting, orienteering, or just enjoying your time outdoors. Only Kartasto offers full featured apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac.

Free app comes with a large selection of built-in maps in topographic, nautical, and aerial imagery styles. Save places as map markers that sync between your devices over iCloud. It is easy and fun to measure distances and draw paths on the map, or use Look Around to see street level imagery at any address.

Kartasto Pro one-time purchase unlocks a professional grade feature set. Add your own maps and data layers from standard APIs, and bring in GPX, GeoJSON or Shapefile data. You can even draw notes directly on the map using touch or pencil!

Kartasto makes it easy to plan your upcoming hike by letting you download map tiles for offline use, view up-to-date weather forecasts, or draw tracks on the map and save them to GPX files. After your hike, graph out its speed and altitude data.

For hunters, integration with Oma Riista lets you import hunting areas using area code. Share your location with a private group of other Kartasto users.

Build your own dog tracker by installing separate Beacon app to another device and pairing it with Kartasto. Its position can then be tracked on the map in Kartasto.

Kartasto Pro one-time purchase unlocks full functionality
• Use folders to organize tracks and markers
• Attach images to markers from photo library
• Track other devices with Beacon app installed
• Import hunting areas from Oma Riista service
• Get weather forecast for targeted location
• Draw notes on map using touch or pencil
• Import tile maps from web using browser
• Download map areas for offline use
• Draw tracks on map and save as GPX files
• Import GPX files and view them on map
• Add Tile Map, WMTS and WMS maps
• Add WFS, GeoJSON and Shapefile map layers
• Get new features in future versions

If some map available via open data APIs is not yet included, or you want to make your maps available in Kartasto, please email me at feedback@freshbits.fi. Also follow on Instagram at @KartastoApp.

This app has been built by one developer as a hobby project during many evenings and weekends. Please be nice and take this into account when giving feedback.

Icon symbol credit to Wolf Böse (Creative Commons).

What’s New

Version 2024.8

• Allow adjusting position of saved markers.
• Bug fixes.

For more tips and details around development of Kartasto, follow @KartastoApp on Instagram. Contact me if you want to add your map to Kartasto.

Ratings and Reviews

5.0 out of 5
2 Ratings

2 Ratings

Nantwein ,

My favorite map-app on ipad and Mac

I use Kartasto to visualize trips I have undertaken over the years.

I put markers in places that I have listed in my travel diaries, provide them with icons (e.g. for overnight stays) and copy sentences from my diaries into the notes that can be added to each marker. You can also add photos to the markers - another great feature.

In the app you can also visualize routes that automatically follow the roads on the map. The markers can be summarized conveniently in folders - i use one for each trip - so even if you manage the trips of several decades your map will never become cluttered. Since the last update, the developer implemented folders also for tracks.

Although Kartasto is actually an ios app, it runs robustly and reliable on the Mac, and everything synchronizes within seconds seamlessly via the icloud. For example, you can record a track live on the ipad and work with it at home on the big screen of the imac.

The developer is very attentive and open for feature requests. Since i first wrote this review, he has implemented two suggestions of mine - the ability to move markers without having to delete them and an indication whether a marker has nots attached to it.

Kudos!

idnovic ,

Great app

Awesome app. Really like it. Feels like a modern map tool.

Nantwein ,

Tolle Karten-App

Ich verwende Kartasto, um Reisen zu visualisieren, die ich im Lauf der Jahre unternommen habe. Ich setze Marker an Orten, die ich in meinen Reisetagebüchern verzeichnet habe, versehe sie mit Icons (z.B. für Übernachtungen) und kopiere mir Sätze aus meinen Tagebüchern in die Notizen, die man jedem Marker hinzufügen kann. Auch Fotos kann man hinzufügen, was ebenfalls ein tolles Feature ist.
Außerdem lassen sich mit dem Track-Zeichen-Tool sehr einfach und intuitiv zurückgelegte Wegstrecken visualisieren, die automatisch den Straßen folgen. Die Marker lassen sich sehr übersichtlich in Ordnern zusammenfassen - für jede Reise einer -, wodurch man auch bei vielen Reisen die Übersicht behält. Seit dem letzten Update gibt es diese Ordner auch bei den Tracks - genial!
Obwohl Kartasto eigentlich eine ios-App ist, läuft es sehr robust und zuverlassig auch auf dem Mac, und alles sychronisiert völlig problemlos über die icloud. So kann man z.B. auf dem ipad live einen Track aufzeichnen lassen, den man später auf dem großen Bildschirm des Mac verfeinert und ergänzt. Tolle Sache! Und dazu die Vielfalt an unterschiedlichen Kartenbildern, die Möglichkeit, eigene Layer zu erstellen, und ein Entwickler, der auf Anregungen rasch reagiert ... was will man mehr?

In-App Purchases

Kartasto Pro
Kartasto Pro
One payment to unlock all features
9,99 €

App Privacy

The developer, Pasi Salenius, 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.

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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