AlpineQuest Explorer Lite - Android Travel & Local

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AlpineQuest is designed to cater to a wide variety of outdoor activities and sports such as hiking, running, sailing, and geocaching. This application serves as a comprehensive tool for enthusiasts who enjoy exploring nature, whether they are navigating trails, hunting in remote areas, or engaging in off-road adventures. Its versatility makes it suitable for anyone looking to enhance their outdoor experience with digital navigation aids.

A notable feature of AlpineQuest is its extensive range of maps, which users can easily access and store for local use, ensuring they remain available even in areas without cellular service. The application is equipped to handle numerous file formats, allowing users to utilize different types of topographic maps. This capability ensures that outdoor adventurers can always have the necessary navigational tools at their fingertips, regardless of their location.

With the integration of GPS technology and a magnetic sensor, users can achieve real-time localization on their maps. This feature allows for a more intuitive navigation experience, as users can orient their map to match their line of sight, minimizing the chances of getting lost. As a result, adventurers can focus on their explorations without the worry of misdirection, which is especially beneficial in dense or unfamiliar terrains.

The capabilities of AlpineQuest extend beyond just navigation. Users can save unlimited placemarks, track their paths, and obtain advanced statistics, making it easier to document their journeys and achievements. There's also an option to share these placemarks with friends, creating an interactive community for outdoor enthusiasts. Furthermore, the application provides advanced graphics to help users understand their travel patterns and enhance their planning for future activities.

In addition to its offline functionality, AlpineQuest encourages user engagement by providing a platform for feedback and problem reporting through a dedicated forum. This commitment to user support and community interaction underlines its reliability as an outdoor navigation tool. For those looking to test out its features, AlpineQuest offers a Lite version for free, allowing users to experience the application's core functionalities without commitment. This makes the application an appealing choice for both seasoned adventurers and beginners alike.

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AlpineQuest is the complete solution for all outdoor activities and sports, including hiking, running, trailing, hunting, sailing, geocaching, off-road navigation and much more.

You can access and store locally a large range of on-line topographic maps, which will remain available even while being out of cell coverage. AlpineQuest also supports many on-board file-based raster map formats.

By using the GPS and the magnetic sensor of your device (with compass display), getting lost is part of the past: you are localized in real-time on the map, which can also be oriented to match where you are looking at.

Save and retrieve unlimited placemarks, share them with your friends. Track your path, get advanced statistics and interactive graphics. You won’t have anymore questions about what you can accomplish.

By staying fully operational out of cell coverage (as often in mountain or abroad), AlpineQuest assists you in all your desires of deep wilderness exploring…

Don’t hesitate, use this Lite version right now for free!

PLEASE report suggestions and issues on our dedicated forum https://www.alpinequest.net/forum (no registration needed, all questions answered) and not in comments.

Key features are (for full version):

★★ Maps ★★
• Built-in online maps (with automatic local storage; road, topo and satellite maps included) and online layers (road names, hillshade, contours);
• Get more online maps and layers in one click from the included community maps list (all major worldwide maps and many local topo maps);
• Complete area storage of online maps for off-line use;
• On-board offline maps support (raster) including KMZ Overlays, OziExplorer OZFx2, OZFx3 (partly) and calibrated images, GeoTiff, GeoPackage GeoPkg, MbTile, SqliteDB and TMS zipped tiles (visit our website to get MOBAC, the free map creator);
• QuickChart Memory Map support (.qct maps only, .qc3 maps not compatible);
• Built-in image calibration tool to use any scan or picture as a map;
• Digital elevation model on-board storage (1-arcsec SRTM DEM) and support for HGT elevation files (both 1-arcsec and 3-arcsec resolutions) allowing display of terrain, hillshade and steep slopes;
• Polar maps (Arctic and Antarctic) support;
• Multiple maps in layers display, with per-map opacity/contrast/color/tint/blending control.

★★ Placemarks ★★
• Create, display, save, restore unlimited number of items (waypoints, routes, areas and tracks);
• Import/export GPX files, Google Earth KML/KMZ files and CSV/TSV files;
• Import ShapeFile SHP/PRJ/DBF, OziExplorer WPT/PLT, GeoJSON, IGC tracks, Geocaching LOC waypoints and export AutoCAD DXF files;
• Save and share online locations with other users using Community Placemarks;
• Details, advanced statistics and interactive graphics on various items;
• Time Controller to replay time-tagged tracks.

★★ GNSS Position / Orientation ★★
• On-map geolocation using device GNSS receivers (GPS/Glonass/Galileo/…) or Network;
• Map orientation, compass and target finder;
• Built-in GNSS/Barometric track recorder (long tracking capable, running in a separate and light process) with battery level and network strength recording;
• Proximity alerts and leave path alerts;
• Barometer support (compatible devices).

★★ And more ★★
• Metric, imperial, nautical and hybrid distance units;
• Latitude/Longitude and grid coordinate formats (WGS, UTM, MGRS, USNG, OSGB, SK42, Lambert, QTH, …) with on-map grids display;
• Ability to import hundreds of coordinate formats from https://www.spatialreference.org;
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