Trekarta - offline outdoor map

Andrey Novikov

About this app

Trekarta is designed for hiking, geocaching, off-roading, cycling, boating and all other outdoor activities. It uses offline maps so you do not need to have internet connection. You can easily import places and tracks from GPX and KML data formats or create places in application and share them to others. It lets you write the track of your journey, even in background, so you will never get lost and be able later see where you've been.


Offline maps

Trekarta uses OpenStreetMap based vector maps that are lightweight, offline and are constantly enhanced by contributors. Maps contain detailed topological data with elevation contours. Some map elements can be filtered out for cleaner look. Trekarta has built-in hillshades support. You can add custom maps in sqlite or mbtiles format to cover your area of interest. Custom maps will be shaded as well. Such maps can be created by yourself with SAS.Planet application from mostly any online source or converted with MapTiler and other applications from other map formats.


Hiking

Special hiking activity mode emphasises paths and tracks on map. It visualizes path difficulty and visibility and displays hiking routes. It also displays special OSMC symbols that help you identify desired route.


Cycling

Cycling activity mode reveals bicycle infrastructure. It shows cycling routes and visualizes mountain biking track difficulty and visibility.


Skiing and skating

Skiing activity mode displays clean winter map with mostly all skiing activities: downhill, nordic, hiking and touring. As a bonus freestyle snow-boarding, skating and sleighing areas are displayed.


Off-road

Unpaved, dirt, winter and ice roads are specially visualized. 4wd only roads have specific marking. Fords are displayed on all roads, even primary.


Places

Places can be easily imported from GPX and KML files or can be created within application. You can navigate to places and share them with others.


Tracks

Trekarta is designed to record tracks of your journey. Simply press a button when you start and press it once more when you finish. You can quit the application if you do not need to look at the map, the track will be recorded in the background.


Plugins

Trekarta functionality can be extended by plugins. Currently the following plugins are available:
• Location sharing
• Dropbox sync


More info

More information can be found at:
https://github.com/andreynovikov/trekarta/

Questions can be asked at:
https://github.com/andreynovikov/trekarta/discussions

Ratings and reviews

If you wish to "export" your track to another preferred folder, you have to "share" the track. It takes 20 minutes to to figure out that the word "share" is what you want. But you don't "share" it with your preferred folder, you share it with your preferred app. So you share it to Trekarta and are told, "the file is shared in the app' s "application folder". This takes an hour to find. Then you can copy your track file to your preferred folder. Why not just have an EXPORT function!

My favorite app for GPX files. Used this to hike the Kunglseden (450km, Sweden) and the Legends Trail (200km, Armenia) and couldn't live without it! This in combination with Trail Sense is all you need if you go out on adventures hikes! Some of the navigation within the app could be a bit better, but overal the best FOSS app around!

I like it a lot, using it for cycling tours. Used other apps, but i keep returning for the simplicity. I create .gpx files on PC, sync them by Nextcloud and Import them. Works like a charm. Would be cool if .gpx routes could be created in app if a PC is not available, but not a must have.

What's new

• Added German translation
• Added current route visualization
• Configurable location pointer type, size and color
• Fixed crash when navigating in background