BackCountry Navigator XE: Topo

Nii Game INC

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About this app

Download and use topo maps offline to explore the outdoors using your smartphone! Use the GPS in your smartphone to navigate, mark your path and record waypoints.

Look at the advantages that BackCountry Navigator XE brings to the table.

Easy Grid Based Download of Maps
You can try out a simpler approach for downloading and organizing offline maps, choosing large squares at a time. Visualize what you have and what you need.
We have a variety of both worldwide and country specific maps that can be downloaded for offline use based on a yearly membership.
Bronze membership to use most maps.
Silver membership to also use slope shaded topo maps of the US, plus US Forest Service maps.
Gold membership to also use Accuterra Maps, with new, readable maps of the US and the World, plus BackRoads MapBook Basemap in Canada.

Vector Topo Maps for the World
The default map, BackCountry World map, is a set of Vector topo maps for the world. Vector tiled maps hold the promise of crisp multilevel detail, with the ability to download large chunks of the earth's surface in a quick, compact operation. The BackCountry topo map for the world can be viewed in this app and on bcnavxe.com, with an easy process to install them in large blocks.

GPS Navigation
Using GPS in a modern day smartphone, see your position on a moving offline map. Find your way to waypoints you mark on the map or create from entering coordinates into the search bar.

Planning In The Cloud
The website bcnavxe.com is the web interface for BackCountry Navigator XE. With it you can plot points, routes, and boundaries for trips, and download them on demand in the mobile app. You can push trips created in the mobile app to the cloud as well for reviewing or sharing.

Cross-Platform
BackCountry Navigator XE works on Android, has a newer app in iOS, and a web app to aid in planning at bcnavxe.com.

iOS app is available through Appstore

We are well known for our previous product BackCountry Navigator PRO which is still supported and developed on a parallel track.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crittermap.backcountrynavigator.license

To see why you might want to upgrade to XE from PRO, see this comparison

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Ratings and reviews

Been using this app for years as a paying member. When it works, it is awesome, but there have been many bugs and glitches over the years. Now i can no longer import gpx files, it says permission denied. And even more of an issue, is no longer being able to record tracks. It instantly crashed the app every time. Everything is up to date and been restarted, but tracks no longer work. The functionality of this app just seems to get worse with time. Ready to find a different app that works.

It doesn't have all of the bells and whistles as some other trail map apps, but for serious backcountry navigation I think it's the best one out there, and I've tried them all actually out in the field. It does still have some bugs, but they are actively improving it. One important note: if you are using it to record tracks on a modern version if Android, then you must exempt the application from battery optimization, or it will get killed in the background.

I love this app, been using it for 2 years for backpacking. In this app u can save your track and view your track without an internet connection. In AllTrails you can't view any of your tracks until u get connected to the internet next, making it impossible to follow your track home the next day. Ireally like being able to view and plan trips on my PC at home and see them on my phone. Easy to use off-line when there is no reception. Plenty of free maps to download. Well worth the subscription.

What’s new

Required updates for Google Play.
Updates to billing per Google play
Usability fixes.