OS Maps: Explore hiking trails

Ordnance Survey Ltd

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About this app

Explore the great outdoors the way you want, all while staying safe with OS Maps. Whether you want to hike, bike or run, OS Maps will guide you with amazing trails across the USA.

Want to find new places in your local neighbourhood? Or plan that next thru-hiking adventure? From breathtaking National Parks to easy walks along the coast, experience the thrill of finding a brand new trail that you never even knew existed with OS Maps. Why you’ll love using OS Maps:

• EXPLORE NEW PLACES, CREATE NEW ADVENTURES
Plan unlimited trails with detailed, up to date maps across the country and discover that next great trail! Whether you love to hike, bike or run, there’s multiple map layers to suit any activity, including topographic and aerial maps.

• TRAILS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
Search for the best trails in an area as rated by fellow outdoor enthusiasts and plot your own trail to follow, share and record.

• VIEW & DOWNLOAD MAPS OFFLINE
No cell reception? No problem. Download your favorite areas to save and view offline – so you can view your maps and routes even without cell reception. Plus, you can export your favourite trails & routes to your GPX device.

• TRAIL MAPS TO SUIT ANY ACTIVITY
Choose from multiple map layers; plan activities & find trails with detailed topographic mapping; or explore the landscape in stunning detail with aerial view. You can even see the world in 3D on desktop with 3D map layers.

• RECORD, REVIEW & RELIVE ACTIVITIES
Use the activity tracking feature, and activity history dashboard to track each & every adventure. Look back on past activities & review your stats.

• STAY SAFE ON THE TRAIL
Live GPS location tracking and never miss a turn with off-course alerts will keep you on track. Download trails, routes and maps and share with others.

• USE ON EVERY DEVICE
Go from laptop to hilltop with ease! View, create & sync your routes & activities with a single account across multiple devices. Plan on desktop, follow & record your activities on mobile or compatible Wear OS devices.

• PLANNING MADE EASY
Use OS Maps as your off-road GPS tracker with automatic ‘snap-to-path’ making route planning easy with the shortest distance between your waypoints plotted automatically.

• UNLIMITED PRINTING
Print copies of trails and maps to take with you so you always have a backup to hand.

• USEFUL INFO
$4.99 for monthly subscriptions and $28.99 for annual subscriptions
Battery life can be dramatically decreased by using GPS constantly.
We release updates to all of our apps as we improve them, making them even more stable and adding extra features. Along the way, your feedback and comments about those apps are really important to us. If there’s an issue or something you’d like us to know, head to https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/contact-us

OS Maps offers an auto-renewing monthly subscription and an auto-renewing yearly subscription to provide you with premium access to OS Maps while you maintain an active subscription. If you chose to purchase a premium subscription, your payment will be processed by Google.
Subscriptions may be managed through the Google Play App after purchase. Subscriptions on Google Play are renewed automatically unless you unsubscribe at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your Google account will be charged for renewal no more than 24 hours before to the end of the current period. You may cancel a subscription at any time before the end of the applicable billing period by going to your Subscriptions list on the Google Play App.

Terms and conditions: http://os.uk/termsosmaps

Privacy policy: http://os.uk/privacy

Ratings and reviews

A superb app, as one would expect from Ordnance Survey, but it loses a star because it no longer supports screen rotation to view in landscape mode. That is just so frustrating. Update. Lo and behold, it now works in landscape 😊. It's so nice when a developer actually reads and acts on people's comments. Updated to 5 stars.

A GREAT APP WHEN IT WORKS. But it can go wrong at any moment - the phone battery can die; and the magic pink triangle can appear on the map literally miles from where you in fact are. This seems to happen most in misty weather when you need it most. Fixes are delete & reinstall, & recalibrate the phone compass (google it). The map on the phone is still there but it's much harder to use than a paper map, & the inbuilt compass is often wrong. Don't go anywhere wild without a paper map & compass.

What a disaster! I have been an OS Maps subscriber for many years, but this will be my last. I hated the app updated from the start but hoped the glitches would be resolved. However, they haven't. It is clunky, unintuitive, and poor navigation for saved routes. The worst issue is how long maps take to load, sometimes minutes. This includes downloaded maps. Goodbye OS Maps there are much better solutions out there.

What’s new

In this release you can now save a dropped pin to your ‘Saved’ area so that you can use it later. You can choose to save your favourite pub, point of interest, or some where new you’d like to explore. You can then add a saved pin to a route, and share with friends.

To save a pin, drop a pin or search for a location then tap ‘Save pin'. You can turn pins on or off by going to the map layers (3 squares icon), and see a list view under ‘Pins’ on the Saved tab.