Open Canal Map

Tom Sapey

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.

Brilliant app !! Took a little while to get my head around because I couldn't find a menu or help page, so a bit of trial and error on getting info and working out the legend! But now I'm using the app more and more whilst at the helm rather than picking up my copy of Nicholson! PS the white dots are km marks (Nicholson uses mile markers hence the confusion 😕). Still not sure how to add new items as a contributor ....... ?

Tom, thank you so much for this app! I'm going to install it on my parents' phones as well! If you wouldn't mind me encouraging you to continue coding lock miles, I'd find that incredibly useful too! Only 'issue' I've found is when I tap on a symbol such as a water symbol, the search bar and menu disappears completely. But I love this app so much already!!

What’s new

Re-enabled long tap on map to open menu.