OuterSpatial: Get Outside

It’s embarrassing that the worlds 5th largest economy has this app for its state parks reservation system. Want a specific date for that campsite reservation? You’re going to have to page through a calendar, one week at a time, just to get to the date and see if it’s even available. Is your date 3 months out? Get ready to tap that screen for a while. Oh and if you try to go back, or inadvertently move your finger in any direction it doesn’t like, it closes your search and you get to start over. Want to know when that park opens up? There’s a filter, but it doesn’t really work. It’s pathetic. And I’m sure the great state of CA paid millions for it. Recreation.gov is infinitely better. To the maker of this app: Do better, or better yet just give up the contract to a capable developer.

This is a cool app, but trying to remember the name of app to open is ridiculously difficult. Why isn’t the obvious name used relating to State Parks??? The app itself is of value please seriously consider changing name. More people would download with a name they could find and quickly identify its purpose.

On latest version. Search doesn’t result into anything and can’t see any maps, nothing.

I’m not able to use this app. Every time I try it says “checking for updates”. I even went to the App Store and updated the there. Then opened. Same result. I’d really like to try this app but it has never worked.

The map is completely broken. It shows no trails and says “No Results” even when I have no filters selected. Search function also doesn’t give any results. I tried zooming in in the area of a couple state parks and still the map shows no trails at all.

Updated Review I re-downloaded the app, there was no window saying I had been billed. I can read “contact data collected” as being my contact information. This is an assumption. It would have helped me if the developer clearly stated it was only my contact data that was collected. I live in Alaska and checked out two trails close to me. Good information and I will probably use this app in the future. Old Review As soon as I clicked to download a window popped up that I had been billed. Why this app wants access to my contacts I don’t know. What does that have to do with direction. I didn’t download the app.

Need to find California state parks on the map where I can spend the night, driving thru down to Arizona. Maybe I’m missing something but all I see is hiking & other activities but not camping or overnight stay, just want to pull over spend the night sleeping in my vehicle legally & safely, willing to spend a park fee over staying at a motel or hotel where my vehicle might be broke into while sleeping in my room…

UPDATE: The developer responded. Thank you. Unfortunately, the guidance did not change my results. I had already tried searching “transit” multiple times with no luck. I tried developer’s advice, which was to search “Transit & Trails”. Only got 4 results, none of which appeared to contain transit info. Also tried without the ampersand, but no difference. Looked again for other means to search. No luck. What is really needed IMO is a transit icon. I also found the dev’s advice a little condescending, because I noted that as a nondriver I already know how to patchwork together goggle and other platforms to figure out recreation via transit, but they highlighted that this could be done. It remains a time-consuming and inconvenient proposition, which is why having this info in an app would be so helpful. While it’s possible I’m simply not using the app correctly, it seems like a simple search of a term using the search function would not result in zero results? I also poked around the rest of the app to see if there was a different search avenue, but didn’t see anything. I love the idea of this app, but without the transit info it is not useful to people who can’t drive or people who are willing to try accessing recreation without a car. Something we desperately need. PREVIOUS REVIEW: I found this app via BayNature’s transittotrails.org site, which redirected to Outerspatial, which hyped that it was now the source for transit to trails info. The description said that bike and transit directions were provided. I cannot tell you how fantastic that would be. Downloaded and spent a couple minutes getting oriented and then looking for any transit info whatsoever. If I can’t find it in 5 minutes, it’s really not useful. I can’t drive, so transit info is really important and although I am a seasoned transit rider who generally can find this info on my own, it takes time to do that for outdoor stuff. Would be nice to have that made easier. (I am actually working on such a project.) Now I have downloaded the app and found nothing, when I could have found at least something on goggle (sic) maps in the same amount of time and at the same price of $0 Is the app free? Sure, that’s great. But free and useless as opposed to the original resource through which I found the app, which was a map of transit-accessible hikes in the bay area. If this app does include transit info, it’s not easily accessible. So, not worth even the $0 I paid for it. If I sound frustrated it’s bec

I downloaded this because the Bay Area Ridge Trail linked to it for trail maps. I can see maps in the app, but not download them to use with other data (for example, overlaying my Strava data on the Bay Area Ridge Trail). The app’s goal seems to be to get publicly funded organizations to pay OuterSpatial to hold their data, then pay more to push users to join “sponsored communities”. Will look elsewhere for map data.

Connection problems only with this app edit- they fixed it with the update. I wish it had more info on the state vehicle recreational areas. Hopefully it’ll improve.