CalTopo: Backcountry Mapping

离线地图下载太不方便了，最好一次能够把整个BC省都下载下来。我以前用安卓系手机的时候，有些地图APP就可以做到这一点，一次下载再也不用操心

Love your application for SAR. Would like to see the option to upload photos for a point. But keep up the good work. We are saving lives with your application.

Can’t download high resolution satellite images for offline use making this app useless for backcountry travel. Also can’t pdf high resolution satellite images

Very nice app. One of the only ones I’ve found that’ll work to mark out trails and property boundaries while letting you export to a kml file (to view in google earth).

Great tool for SAR groups to track and follow team progress and safety. Hugely limited by the location options given to the ios platform. It allows “location services while using” but that desperately needs to be changed to “always allow” in order to generate tracks and share member locations at all times regardless of the phone’s locked status, or when switching between apps. The only stop gap presently is to leave the phone unlocked with the app open in your pocket, which dramatically reduces battery life.

CalTopo is mostly awesome as it has myriad features for route and adventure planning as well as team and search organization for SAR work. It has extensive tools for gathering detailed information you may not have known existed in mapping programs such as the time of day that the sun will shine on a particular aspect, the estimated time it will take you to complete the objective you’ve planned, and very recent satellite imagery so you can check whether that high-country trail you’ve been psyched to run is melted out yet. However robustly featured the preeminent CalTopo is, it would benefit from certain upgrades and then truly be a godly mapping tool: a “snap-to-trail” route building feature on iOS, 3D map view in iOS, route preview, and a recreation layer with all of the hikes, trail runs, bike trails, backcountry ski routes, etc. that are popular. Ascendancy is within your reach CalTopo team, make it happen.

CalTopo is so good, it has changed my life. I can be more creative in planning trips than I would ever be otherwise. Thanks a million!

I have to Sign in with Apple every time I want to refer or use app? No thanks. Disappointed.

I started using CalTopo for Search and Rescue. Now it’s my hiking buddy!

This has been a great SAR tool for me and my team. I have also used it for personal hikes and it has been outstanding. It may be a bit overkill for the casual day hiker, but then again the most basic elements can be learned and employed quickly.