White Mtn Hiker NE

Name: White Mtn Hiker NE
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Author: Richard Allmendinger

Privacy-oriented hiking

Free · Designed for iPad

Ages

4+
Years
Category

Health & Fitness
Developer

Richard Allmendinger
Language

EN
English
Size

707.4
MB

The White Mountain Hiker (WMH) apps are the ones I wrote for my own hiking. The apps to prioritize 2 things of interest to serious hikers: offline access to data about their hike and privacy. WMH NE spans from the Mahoosuc Range of eastern Maine to Crawford Notch and from just north of the Kancamagus Highway to the north end of Kilkenny Ridge. It includes the Presidential Range, Mts. Carrigain, Cabot, and Old Speck. With this app and WMH SW, you can completely replace the other WMH apps. The two apps alone cover all of the White Mountain National Forest. The apps come with: • A spectacular shaded relief map with 100 ft contours and 2 meters per pixel resolution (zoom level 16). • A 10 m resolution, on-board digital elevation model (DEM) which enables the user to get the elevation at any point, draw topographic profiles along any path, calculate true slope distance and not just map distance. No internet connection needed for topo or maps. • Digitized trails for the entire region from the U.S. Forest Service (with 5 m point spacing) and NH Granit public databases. Toggle on or off different types, make calculations, plot topo profiles along the trails, change the colors of different trail types, etc. • A builtin database with thousands of geographic points, summits, huts and shelters, natural features of interest, and other points of interest (POIs). All 4000+ ft summits have been located using the highest elevation in the DEM. • Custom hikes can combine segments of several different existing trails and you still get all the data on slope, elevation gain, etc. that you want. Calculate your pace or use book time and get a time table for your multi-trail hikes • Record GPS tracks, or freehand draw paths to record your favorite bushwhack. Topo profiles can be plotted along these paths so you can see what you are getting yourself into (or already did). Share these off-trail excursions as .GPX files with other users. • An innovative rangefinder uses the builtin DEM along with the device compass and accelerometers to give you the distance and bearing to a feature simple by pointing the device camera at it. The accuracy of this feature is subject to the accuracy of the device magnetometer, which is easily affected by magnetic fields. • Set your own POIs and attach photos to them or take new photos without leaving the app. Photos can be annotated. User POIs can be emailed to anyone the user likes (when you have cell service, of course) • Weather forecasts from the National Weather Service (NWS) — with hourly conditions for the next seven days — for any POI. Want to see how hard the wind is blowing on top of Mt. Washington? Sure! This feature also requires an internet connection. • Weather radar base and composite reflectivity from the NWS can be overlaid right on the base map so you can see where inclement weather lies with respect to your hike. This feature requires an internet connection but your location is not sent to the NWS server. • A builtin Apple Maps screen displays all of the trails and POIs on a satellite, hybrid, or road map. Get driving instructions to the trailhead or campground. • Your privacy is respected: your location is never sent to any advertising agency, the programmer, or anyone else. The app is not ad-supported, does not collect any personal data, and can be used without ever connecting to the internet (except for the weather functions and Apple Maps). • Some things that the app does NOT have: (a) builtin trail descriptions (although you can tap a button in the trail details screen to launch your device browser to search the internet for information about the trail). (b) Social networking. You cannot connect or post to your favorite social networking sites from within the app. There are plenty of fine apps that will let you do this (and harvest your location at the same time!).

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v. 4.0.0 -- 17 January 2026 • All major trails, where possible, have been located to within 1-2 m accuracy using texture shaded 1 m resolution LiDAR data and 1 m satellite imagery. I estimate that about 60% of the trail length for well used trails has been relocated to that resolution. The original source of digitized trails has been change from USFS to Open Street Map as I have verified that the latter, in general, have 5-10 m accuracy whereas the USFS digitized trails have lesser accuracy and in a several cases are off by 50 m or more. You can see my report on trail accuracy in the White Mountains at: https://www.rickallmendinger.net/reports. • You can now show trail names directly on the map at zoom levels 13 and higher. Trail names are turned on by default but you can turn them off in Settings. • You can now generate hiking time tables for individual trails as well as custom hikes. Time tables for individual trals will show time and distance to the intersections with all other trails, to huts and shelters and to all summits within 30 m of the trail. You can now reverse direction for any time table generated by the app. Don't forget that you can also export a text file of a more detailed time table to share with hiking friends or reading into a spreadsheet. • The core of the area -- the Presidential Range east to the ME-NH border -- is now available with rendered LiDAR topography to zoom level 17 (about 1.2 m/pixel). Elsewhere in the region the zoom level is limited to 16 (about 2.4 m/pixel).