Maastokartat

MapsiTech Oy

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About this app

A free topographic map makes it easier to get around outdoors and discover new places. You can always see where you are and what's around you. You can search for and save interesting places, measure distances, and easily navigate to different destinations.

Maastokartat is suitable for activities such as hiking and trekking, berry and mushroom picking, fishing and boating, hunting, running and mountain biking, as well as geocaching. The app is also useful for forestry work and for landowners.

Basic use is free, and the app contains no ads. The app is designed to work well on both phones and tablets.

Free features:
• Accurate topographic map based on data from the National Land Survey of Finland
• Aerial imagery from the National Land Survey of Finland
• Nautical chart of Finland
• Worldwide satellite imagery
• Topographic maps of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Estonia
• Real-time location display and tracking
• Place name and address search
• Save your own places and organise them into groups
• Navigate to a destination with direction and distance display
• Distance measurement
• Compass with map rotation based on direction of travel
• Six coordinate formats: WGS84, ETRS-TM35FIN, ETRS-GKn, YKJ, KKJ, and MGRS
• Import and share places and tracks as GPX files
• Backup to your personal Google Drive
• Heart rate monitoring with BLE heart rate sensors

When you need more, Maastokartat Plus adds route planning and recording, offline maps, cloud sync, more detailed topographic maps, water depth information, hillshading, property boundaries, and other maps and tools.

Maastokartat Plus:
• Plan routes in advance and record the tracks you travel
• Cloud sync: places and tracks safely stored in your own account in the cloud
• Offline maps: use maps even without an internet connection
• Highly detailed topographic map with water depth information
• Hillshaded topographic map that clearly shows elevation differences
• 3D aerial and satellite imagery
• Worldwide outdoor map based on OpenStreetMap
• Property boundaries and identifiers as an overlay on top of any map
• Bilberry and lingonberry maps as overlays
• Draw areas and measure their surface area
• Share your location with other users

A Plus subscription costs €9.90 for 3 months as a one-time payment, or €19.90 per year as a recurring subscription. New annual subscribers get a 7-day free trial, during which the subscription can be cancelled without charge.

Maastokartat has been developed in Finland since 2011. The Android app was released in 2015, and active development continues today. For more than a decade, the app has evolved based on user feedback and changing needs. The app is developed by the Finnish company MapsiTech Oy. Help with questions and problems is available directly from the app's developers.

Find out more about the app: https://maastokartat.mapsitech.fi/en

Ratings and reviews

Trails visible only quite a bit zoomed-in (compare with Karttaselain). I can't measure >1km distances because the trails disappear at that zoom level. Also, when measuring smaller distances with two fingers (great innovation btw), the number is obscured by my thick fingers — could the distance value be offset up or down a bit? I could zoom in to the map, but sometimes it means a lot of panning around.

Pretty good for navigating in Finland. Addition of OSM is great, unfortunately cannot be downloaded (why? other apps support downloading of OSM). Would be nice to get a bit more outdoor icons, e.g. for laavu, mountain peak etc. Plus points for fixing the connection to the Norway map! Some other suggestions: Button so stop destination tracking under expanded notification. Checkbox on New Place activity to start tracking as destination immediately. A default place group, not the last one used.

App loads maps surprisingly quickly and feels very responsive. Lightweight even with high-res and overlay map data. Impressive 👏 I have not tested GPS accuracy in terrain or in waters yet. If POIs (for eg. fishing spots, campfire sites or known hiking routes) were included, it would be quite a complete service.

What’s new

- Bilberry and lingonberry maps estimate the best berry-picking spots based on forest resource data. These new maps are available with a Plus subscription.
- New subscribers can now try the Plus annual subscription free for the first 7 days. The free trial is only available if you have not previously purchased this subscription.