Open Canal Map

Tom Sapey

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About this app

Free UK Canal and River map for Android:

Some features include

View Ordnance Survey maps
Find Canal features and navigation information
Find nearby pubs, supermarkets, water points, moorings and points of interest
View Historic OS maps
Search Wikipedia for nearby points of interest
View Satellite maps
Measuring tool
What3Words lookup from location on the map
Open location in Google maps
Find footpaths and towpaths
Find public transport links
Live canal stoppages information
And more….

Ratings and reviews

Just finished a two week trip on the Cheshire Ring using this app. It's honestly every bit as useful, if not more so, than the canal guides! Great for determining your position if you forgot to note the last bridge number, or for making sure you don't blow right past the water point you're looking for. More convenient than the books if you're buttoned up for rain. Only thing I can think of that would improve the app would be tools to measure distance (and better yet ETA) along canal routes.

Used to be very good, if a little heavy on battery usage, but recently it has got very bad. Pops up full screen ads every time you look at a feature on the map. Some of them have a close button, some do not meaning you have to kill the app to get rid of them. If there is a close button then after closing the ad you get horrendous flashing of hundreds of bits of text all layered on top of each other every time you move the map.

Had this app for a few months and thought it was great, but it has suddenly started serving dodgy full screen ads suggesting my account has been hacked and/or my phone is corrupted, and inviting me to download malware. Apparently I can pay £4.99 for the privilege of not being scammed every time I open the app, but frankly I don't like being held to ransom, so the app is getting uninstalled immediately. I wouldn't mind a few reputable ads, but the current situation is unacceptable.

What’s new

* Fixed the app to run on Android 17 Beta