What's New
- Performance in route/track drawing algorithm.
- Monetization for hosting costs.
App Description
Download high resolution National Park Service and US Geological Survey maps of Northern California on your iPhone and iPad for GPS** and offline use!
Plus, NP Maps Yosemite downloads and displays official U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps detailing the geographies for the entire USA.*
This app is priceless for road trips, hikes, camping, exploring and planning. Because many of these wilderness regions have no data service, select and download maps now or when online so you can enjoy using this app as it was intended: no internet connection.
Logical and intuitive to use. Park and topography maps are geospatially integrated with Apple Maps for a familiar interface and for navigating a visual catalog of maps. A marvelous index into an extensive library covering all of Northern California allows you to select maps for install all with a simple touch along your planned route of travel.
Features:
• Preloaded with four(4) NPS and topography maps for Yosemite NP
• Downloads from a library of 67,000+ maps
• Maps display at full rendering high resolution
• Find geographic features worldwide with a powerful geo-code search
• Waypoints with Augmented Reality finder
• Track/bread-crumbs GPS path recording**
• Route path creation
• Shows your current GPS location**
• Ruler with dual orthographic line and path measuring modes
• Full app usability while maps download in the background
• Footprint grid index with quadrangle names for visual map selection
• Aligns various map datums to WGS84 GPS coordinates
• Automatic map download for your current location
• Miles, Feet, Kilometers, Meters, Nautical Miles units
• Latitude and Longitude coordinate display in decimal or arc minutes and seconds
• Import geospatial PDF map files via web, email attachment & iTunes
• Import and export waypoints using GPX format
• Detailed manual built in
• No need for cellular service to view installed maps
* Not preloaded with all maps. WiFi recommended for downloading maps.
** Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Some iPad & iPod models do not have GPS and compass hardware required for waypoint AR feature.
App Changes
- July 31, 2015 Initial release
- August 06, 2015 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
- August 15, 2015 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
- August 21, 2015 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $0.99
- August 25, 2015 New version 3.2
- August 25, 2015 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
- August 31, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
- September 05, 2015 Price decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!
- September 13, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $1.99
- February 27, 2016 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
- March 05, 2016 New version 4.0
- March 05, 2016 Price decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!
- July 05, 2016 New version 4.3
- November 07, 2016 New version 5.0
- December 21, 2016 New version 5.1