I have been using Avenza Maps to navigate the upper Mississippi River since last year. It provides real time GPS positioning on their map app. I downloaded individual US Army Corps of Engineers navigation river maps from their website into this app, and using my ipad or iphone, gps positions me EXACTLY where I am in the channel. I verified the accuracy to within within about 10 feet! Easy to navigate in the dark now! Thus I can see all the wing dams, and my relative position to them, and the channel is highlighted in white. The ONLY slightly negative thing is you have to manually switch between each river map when you go off the current map. I have boated now over 200 river miles using these maps with high accuracy, since a long river trip last summer. The only limitation I found is that the USACE has moved the channel slightly in some areas, and the most recent USACE navigation maps edition don’t show these changes. (NOT the apps fault)

This is one of my major hiking pre-plan go-to apps. I still eyeball it, but the store has gone all wonky somewhere along the line. Trying to download the gazetteer for an upcoming Maine trip, but it just refuses to cooperate. First, the search returns hits for Kentucky and Arkansas near the top of the results list. Under what ridiculous search algorithm would results for Maine get pushed below other states? Further, it is only returning individual Maine maps at 99¢ apiece, rather than offering the whole gazetteer bundle in one shot, like it did for other states I own. Not buying 50+ individual maps, for neither all that hassle nor the price. Tried sorting for highest price first, hoping maybe a full bundle would bubble near the top of the results list: nope. Some $7.99 irrelevant result came up, while every other search result I had just been viewing literally disappeared entirely when sorted that way. 4/5 stars: fact is, what I have from Avenza right now is awesome. I just can’t seem to do anything in terms of conveniently expanding my library, for the moment

I got this specifically to get our local National Forest maps, without knowing how wonderful it really was. I’m so glad I did. I am able to plot pins in favorite little hidden campsites, lay tracks so I can navigate back to unusual places or check how long it takes to get there. I can even add photos to those spots. Buying the national forest map so this way costs about half the price of the printed versions and with the advantage of being interactive. Another major bonus is on my phone it works off satellite and doesn’t depend on cell service. Many national forest areas have no cell service but I can still use the map. Of course it does use up your battery so there’s that to prepare for. I charge it when I’m driving with my cigarette lighter adapter. I’ve also found many local free maps (or very cheap) such as geological surveys.

I've tried several other apps for hiking/biking in (un)known areas and there was always some issue with them: or they would drain my phone battery in an hour (not good when you are far in the wild), or they wouldn't have all the trails/paths/roads mapped or they wouldn't show accurately my location at the moment (crucial on a new trail). This app has it all! Really have been a saviour when I would get lost in the woods and it also makes exploring new routes adventures, enjoyable and interesting! The phone doesn't seem to lose power faster then in normal circumstances. And your current location is shown even if you have zero bars of connectivity and google maps fail. Highly recommendable and big thanks, developers!:)

Hands down, this is my favorite app to use while hiking. I am in New York City, USA and I do most of my hiking in the highlands north of the city. Avenza has really high quality maps showing all the local trails. It tracks my location on those maps and doesn’t use too much battery. I also like the ability to record GPS tracks. I would give it a 5 except for a few clunky features that are a bit hard to use. It is hard to get the tracks to disappear off a map without deleting them altogether. They obscure the view of that map for subsequent hikes. I would also like the ability to draw paths freehand to measure trail distances. As it is now, you have to create a series of straight line segments that don’t mimic actual trail geometry. Overall, though, I haven’t found a better app for the price. And, you can buy and download the maps. I used this for a trip to Athens!

I’ve been using the app for approximately six months during a handful of off-road trips. It’s adequate when you acquire a map which is originally done in PDF (such as from Tom Harrison, National Geographic, and some others). Many of the maps, however, are in fact sourced from compressed scans of printed maps (or low quality renderings) that are virtually unusable when zoomed in to ascertain area details. The store does not indicate which are native PDF and which are scans. Many of the better available maps are available in hard copy for essentially the same price, though missing only the nice ability to use your device’s GPS to indicate and track your location. An issue of all mapping apps is that it’s sometimes nice to spread out a paper map to get the big picture as something is lost when you use an app such as this to zoom out making features so small that they’re unrecognizable and text unreadable. Overall, if you needs maps, you’re much better off getting the much more capable Gaia app and suffering the subscription fee which you’ll quickly rack up in a handful of maps with this app versus unlimited maps in Gaia. I think there’s a place for this app if you restrict yourself to Tom Harrison maps or are able to get lucky and find native PDF maps which are not available on Gaia, but all of the Nat Geo Trails illustrated and topographic maps are in Gaia ... and much easier to find and download.

If you have a Map Collection, and I have many, that are related and often include a hiking trail that spans two or more of the maps. You need to have them in a collection, otherwise recording tracks will stop if you leave the current map by navigating to the map list. The solution is put them in a collection, which is fine, as these maps overlap a little bit, and I want a complete track of my hikes.Well, with the maps in a collection, you get access to an overview portion, which is good I guess for seeing where in the map area you happen to be, but not much else, at least not that I can tell. The problem with maps in a collection is that if you scroll the map to the edge of one of the collection maps you suddenly get popped onto the neighboring map. This happens so easily, and is somewhat unexpected, as up until the 4.0 release, you actually had to explicitly drag the map view at the edge of one map to move to the neighboring map. The motion was deliberate, not spastic, which is the best way to describe the current behavior.Anyhow, Avenza has been aware of this issue for more than 3 or 4 months, and has not seen fit to update the application and fix the issue their 4.0 update caused. Enough is enough. Fix the app, please. Note this is not the first time Avenza has messed up the app. Version 3.5 was a real mess. But at least there was a fairly steady stream of updates, and the issues were mostly resolved. Wish I could say the same for 4.0.All I need is my main map data vendor to offer their maps on an alternate platform, and bye-bye.

I absolutely love this app. My family enjoys hiking, biking, and off highway motorcycle riding which is where this app excels. For all you single track and trail riding motorcycle enthusiasts find your map by searching for either “MVUM” (multi vehicle use map) and/or “OHV” (off highway vehicle). No worries about cell service as this app utilized the GPS in your phone. I also love the ability to plot photos and mark my trails which makes it a joy to share later with friends. A feature I would like to see added would be the ability to share my recorded “track” via a simple text. The track would then be imported into other applicable maps and more importantly with friends who also have the app and corresponding map(s) so that they could follow the same track at a later date.

I was up on top of a mountain top hunting driving life four-wheel-drive of theSome steep hills and I saw a lady sitting on the road and her bicycle laying on side and I thought she may have crashed I pulled up and asked her if she was OK and she said she was fine she was just riding over the mountain. She saw me looking at some paper maps for the roads and she told me about a Venza and that’s where my experience with the van to begin I am so impressed with this program as with on X without satellite feed you can’t use the map but with Avenza you can use the map and it tells you where you’re at every place you are magnificent program thank you very much strange lady on the mountain and thank you Avenza Randy Watson hunting near Garibaldi.

I’m currently hiking the Continental Divide Trail and had downloaded 423 individual geo codes PDFs from the CDTC into Avenza and they were all working fine. I also had installed all of Jonathan Ley’s map sets for the CDT into Avenza.Yesterday I updated the app to the latest version. Now, over 300 of the imported maps are completely missing when I look for them in My Maps - a feature Avenza is claiming they just improved!Additionally, the Jonathan Ley map sets do not appear anywhere in my maps. However, if I go to Avenza store to reinstall them the app claims they are already installed. If that is the case, they are not accessible to me in My Maps.Now, I’m on the trail at a motel with bad wifi and spending hours reimporting maps and not getting critical rest that I need for my they hike. You can imagine how upsetting this is. To say the least.Previously I have recommended the Avenza app to several hikers. I do not recommend upgrading an app while on the trail EVER! If it works - do no change anything.As far as the Avenza developer goes... releasing a version without testing the stability of its features - and critically speaking, its ability to retain purchases and imported maps - this is flabbergasting. It’s unacceptable. I should have known better than to update to a new version and I take partial blame for my current situation. Avenza has wasted my my money - and more importantly, valuable time and rest while actively on the trail.