4x4 Explorer
Hema Maps 4x4 Explorer
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Description

The 4X4 Explorer App is the first of the new generation of Explorer products released by Hema Maps to empower adventurers to get out and explore Australia.

The Hema 4X4 Explorer App has been developed to allow users to plan, navigate and share their remote trips with ease and confidence. Whether it is an offroad 4WD Adventure, a remote camping trip or a lap around Australia, the 4X4 Explorer app is your perfect travelling companion.

Hema 4X4 Explorer Features - Mapping & Navigation
- Navigate with confidence with Australia's best multi-scale topographic mapping from Hema Maps
- Travel with confidence with offline capability for mapping and track conditions in remote areas
- Perfect off-road navigation tool with GPS tracking and highly accurate track information
- Australia-wide 4WD map coverage with comprehensive 4x4 tracks and trails
- Satellite and Hybrid maps available from Mapbox with option to add more map layers
- Explore over 690,000kms of 4WD tracks and 545,000km of unsealed roads featured on the Hema Map
- Fully integrated Here on-road / street data to allow you to plot your trip from your home to the most remote destinations
- Download offline maps and map layers to your phone to navigate in areas without wifi or cellular coverage
- Search for tracks, places and locations by name or by town

Hema 4X4 Explorer Features - Trips. Destinations & POIs
- Access over 100,000+ points of interest (POI) including 40,000 Hema verified campsites, caravans parks, dump points, lookouts, national parks and much more.
- POIs have access to detailed descriptions, photos (online), reviews and navigation support. User generated content moderated by HemaX
- What3Words locations integrated into all POIs and supported for "My Location" pages to make it easier to find remote spots
- Route trips and tracks pre-trip using the HemaX Cloud or on the road with intuitive routing engine
- Generate routes to a POI, address or waypoint
- Log your trips with accurate track recording, geotag photos along the way, save waypoints and trip notes
- Sync all your offline app data to the HemaX Cloud when you’re connected to the internet to allow you to store, edit and share your trip
- Share your trips (before, during or after) with friends and family

Hema 4X4 Explorer Features - my HemaX Cloud account
- All 4X4 Explorer Apps can be connected to a HemaX Cloud account to unlock more features and sharing options
- Within your HemaX Cloud account you can update your user profile, build trip plans, save tracks and sync across all your HemaX Cloud products
- Share your location with friends from the My Location page or identify your exact GPS coordinates or What 3 Words address.

Hema 4X4 Explorer Subscription/Product Options

Within your hema 4X4 Explorer App you are granted access to the following map packs, which includes:
Hema Explorer Map (Online Only)
Hema Touring Map (Offline)
Mapbox Hybrid Map
Mapbox Satellite Map

You can activate additional map subscriptions through the purchase of a 12-Month Product subscription (with auto-renewal) to offline Explorer Maps, Raster Maps and more starting at only $29.99 visit the map subscriptions menu to view what's available for your account.


Note: 4X4 explorer is not designed for turn by turn navigation and should be used as a guide only. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Most mobile devices come with an in-built GPS receiver. However, it’s important to ensure the device you’re using has an in-built GPS receiver, as this is what enables location services that allow you to track your position. External Bluetooth GPS receivers can be purchased for use with devices that do not have one in-built.

Our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy for Hema Maps Products
http://help.hema-labs.com/cloud/terms.htm
https://www.hemamaps.com/policies/privacy-policy

4x4 Explorer is powered by HemaX Digital.
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In-Apps

Meridian Maps
$49.99
Rooftop Map Series
$99.99
HemaX Raster Series
$49.99
HemaX Premium Australia Maps
$49.99

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User Rating

2.9 out of 5

365 ratings in Australia

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110
4 star
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Reviews

Difficult to negotiate

Guzzi George on

I find it hard to use the features of the app because there is only vague information about how to utilise the site. I will no be renewing my subscription

No internet connection message

Sleepy__/ on

Keeps telling me no connection (it is) have tried closing out, re powering the device and removing/reinstalling. Got no cost apps giving me better info with no issues

Years of patience

BenM71 on

This app has tried my patience over the years. It just has continual errors. Constantly searching the internet to resolve issues etc. Every time i go to use it there is another issue. When you can get it working, the maps are great. Hema need to replace the whole app development team. Its a shocker. After years of putting up with and trying to resolve issues, it is time for a divorce. Its not me, its you.

Good Maps, Functions Lack Polish and Reliability

Mick21111 on

left this review on the Hema website for the app but it doesn’t appear to have been approved for display. I have used tried to use this app a few times now for different trips. On the surface, as a maps app, it works well and I find the maps themselves to be very good with a decent user interface for basic map reading, zooming, etc. But beyond that to any more functionality and the app starts to fall over with intermittent faults. I have found on many occasions that the function of some of the features are unreliable. Some notes about the app design and function below which I did not like. - When you open the app (iphone) a bar at the top shows whether it is in offline or online mode. This bar covers some of the buttons (filters, search, menu, etc.) so you need to wait 5-10s or so for it to disappear. Doesnt sound like much but this design could be improved. - When using the app, jumping out of the app momentarily and back into the app resets it and it loses the location on the map and by default shows the map in the middle of the ocean somewhere. Clicking on the location button does locate the map on your location, but this is a very frustrating. Note that this is not the case when in the middle of recording a track. And it didnt matter if I had location services enabled all the time or not. - I could not get my custom POI profile to work properly, it would not show everything even though I had certain POIs included in the profile. Not a huge issue as the default ones arent too bad, but still a feature that I didnt find to work. - A few issues recording tracks. Starts recording well, but there were times when if I paused it for whatever reason and I unpause the recording it would track the track as if it was still recording, but not actually record that section of the track in the end (at least not the location data on the map). This only becomes apparent after you stop the recording all together and there is no indication that it is not recording while on a track. - I could not find how to search other people's tracks in the app (e.g. to look at how long a particular track takes to drive) like you can do with Hema Cloud on a browser. Not sure if this can be done (the search button does not provide it, even when in online mode). - About 50% of the time if I paused a recording and unpaused it, it would continue to actually record the track but would not show and indication of it recording on the map (no highlighted section on the map). - I was in offline

Love the app, but want more POI control

TimElleston on

I’ve been using the app on an ipad for a number of years, and I love the depth of detail, ease of use, etc. The latest release is amazing…except… management of waypoints and POIs needs to be expanded on. I have thousands of waypoints added, and thousands of POIs added (parking bays, floodways, bridges etc) and with waypoints, you turn them all on, or all off, whereas a folder based approach would be better, and POIs cant be edited easily once they're added. If you add decent waypoint and POI management functionality to the app, I’ll be a lifetime customer :). Right now, I have to use two different apps…

Update

Gordy3333 on

Total trash after updating all my trip details have gone

Waste of money

Natman80 on

I have still been using the old Hema Explorer which I love but no longer supported. Thought it was time for an upgrade and all I can say is what a waste of money. Cannot navigate directly to a waypoint, no imagery downloads like the old days, recording a track works sometimes. If I could figure out how to get a refund and delete this app I would!

Apple car play support please

Kwang Moon on

Like the app, however needs Apple Car Play integration. Too difficult to use effectively as an in-vehicle navigation system otherwise.

Unreliable App, uncontactable team

Chris Summerell on

I have been persevering with this app for about 3.5 years now and have had various map pack subs on and off over that time. I have had multiple issues as other have described where if you’re offline for a period/get a random bar of service you get booted from the app and have to log back in… last thing you want when half way through a long trip our remote bush! lucky I had hard maps on hand. I have been able to put up with that over the years and I had some tech support here and there which seemed to help so I put it down to user error and moved on. But the final straw for me was that since my last map purchase/sub I have had access to them once, and now suddenly I can’t access the app at all with my normal log in details. I have followed the password reset tool and that seems to work, but as soon as I try log in again it said something like ‘this account isn’t recognised’. I have emailed for support but this time I have had zero response. I’m literally wasting money on a service that I can’t even access. Not good enough.

Very slow to load

Dka167 on

This is nowhere near quality of the previous product. Now discontinued because it worked. Do not like this product at all.

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App Info

Category
Travel
Publisher
Hema Maps Pty Ltd
Languages
Recent version
2.0.4 (1 week ago )
Released on
Sep 15, 2020 (3 years ago )
Last updated
1 week ago