Android GPS hiking apps?

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Yes, 2532 m. EA8/TF-004.

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In the UK I tend to use the Ordinance Survey app, which works well. On recent trips to France I have used the IGNrando-French Hiking Routes app. If I canā€™t find an official app, like on a trip to Spain I use OsmAnd+ which draws from a number of sources including Open Strret Map and Open Topo. I use the paid version which is a one off payment.

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Try it mapy.cz android / web off-line maps. FREE and no advertisements.

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Yes, mapy.cz looks great, thanks!

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Fraser, youā€™re very welcome to join a dedicated SOTA group on Garmin Connect:

Best 73 de Andy sp9nli

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An interesting bug? Feature?

I havenā€™t updated the offline maps I use for Orux for a while and as I will be in HB9/DL/EA2/EA3/CT this year I fetched the latest OSM (Open Street Maps) for Android from Freizeitkarte website. I have a terrible habit of never deleting files if thereā€™s disk space so I have many folders in my Oruxmap collection on the home server dating back to when I 1st started using the program, so new maps into a folder Winter2022. Then the fun and games as I updated 3 Android devices with about 15GB of data. A quick check and home looks like home, Fridrichshafen appears on Germany-South and Geneva on Swizterland. Job done!

But looking at it closely this morning thereā€™s something wrong. Iā€™m sure itā€™s a map-theme issue. The maps use theme representation and you have a theme folder with icons etc. that show roads, forests, railway stations etc. Change the theme and the entire map looks different.

Anyway bridges are not showing. I checked on both the UK and a German map. An example is worth a 1000 wordsā€¦

Oruxmaps 7.4.26, Autumn2021 UK map, Tiramasu 3.0.2 theme. Note the bridge on the motorway and the railway crossing the river.

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Oruxmaps 7.4.26, Winter2022 UK map, Tiramasu 3.0.2 theme. Note the bridges are missing.

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I tried this on the older Oruxmaps 6.5.10 I use (I prefer the older UI) and itā€™s the same and I tried it with several other themes and the bridges are missing. I donā€™t think itā€™s a bug in Orux but Iā€™ll try it with Locus etc. and Iā€™m not sure itā€™s a bug in the map data. Most likely I need some more modern themes to go with the new data. But if you have older downloaded OSM maps, just keep a backup of them if you download the latest versions in case you get bitten by this issue.

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