DownloadTransform your smartphone into an ultimate off-road GPS navigator with offline topographic maps! AlpineQuest offers a seamless outdoor experience without the distractions of advertisements, data sharing, monetization, analytics, or third-party libraries.
AlpineQuest is your go-to app for all outdoor activities and sports, whether you're into hiking, running, trailing, hunting, sailing, geocaching, or off-road navigation. With access to a wide variety of online topographic maps that are stored locally, you'll stay on track even in areas without cell service. Additionally, the app supports numerous on-board file-based raster map formats.
Leveraging your device's GPS and magnetic sensor, complete with a compass display, AlpineQuest ensures you're always localized in real-time on the map. The map can even be oriented to align with your view, making navigation intuitive and straightforward.
You can save and retrieve an unlimited number of placemarks and share them with friends. Track your journey, analyze advanced statistics, and explore interactive graphics to enhance your outdoor experience.
AlpineQuest remains fully operational even out of cell coverage, making it the perfect companion for exploring the deepest wilderness. Try the Lite version for free and see the difference for yourself!
For any suggestions or issues, please visit our dedicated forum at https://www.alpinequest.net/forum (no registration required, and all questions are answered) instead of leaving comments.
Key features (available in the full version) include:
★★ Maps ★★
• Access online maps with automatic local storage covering road, topo, and satellite views, along with online layers like road names, hillshade, and contours.
• Easily acquire additional online maps and layers from our extensive community maps list, featuring major worldwide and local topo maps.
• Store entire map areas for offline use.
• Support for on-board offline maps (raster) such as KMZ Overlays, OziExplorer OZFx2, OZFx3 (partially), calibrated images, GeoTiff, GeoPackage GeoPkg, MbTile, SqliteDB, and TMS zipped tiles. Visit our website for MOBAC, the free map creator.
• Compatibility with QuickChart Memory Maps (.qct maps; .qc3 maps not supported).
• Utilize our built-in image calibration tool to convert any scan or picture into a map.
• On-board storage of digital elevation models (1-arcsec SRTM DEM) and support for HGT elevation files (1-arcsec and 3-arcsec resolutions) to visualize terrain, hillshade, and steep slopes.
• Support for polar maps (Arctic and Antarctic).
• Display multiple maps in layers with customizable opacity, contrast, color, tint, and blending settings.
★★ Placemarks ★★
• Create, display, save, and restore an unlimited number of items including waypoints, routes, areas, and tracks.
• Import and 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.
• Share and save online locations with the community using Community Placemarks.
• Access details, advanced statistics, and interactive graphics for various items.
• Use the Time Controller to replay time-tagged tracks.
★★ GNSS Position / Orientation ★★
• Achieve on-map geolocation using your device's GNSS receivers (GPS/Glonass/Galileo/…) or network.
• Benefit from map orientation, compass, and target finder features.
• Record tracks with the built-in GNSS/Barometric track recorder, which operates in a separate, lightweight process and captures battery level and network strength.
• Set up proximity alerts and leave path alerts.
• Enjoy barometer support on compatible devices.
★★ And more ★★
• Choose from metric, imperial, nautical, and hybrid distance units.
• Use latitude/longitude and grid coordinate formats (WGS, UTM, MGRS, USNG, OSGB, SK42, Lambert, QTH, …) with on-map grid displays.
• Import hundreds of coordinate formats from https://www.spatialreference.org.
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.3.8d
Last updated on Aug 14, 2024
2.3.8b/c/d
• Added a new setting to customize the display style and side of the menu bar.
• Enhanced compatibility with recent Android versions.
• Improved the backup and restore tool.
• Updated the default URL for sharing coordinates as text.
• Option to set the application's "Media" folder as the default for placemarks, icons, pictures, and file-based maps.
• Added Croatian and Persian translations.
• Various improvements and bug fixes.
