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Pocket Earth Maps
Pocket Earth is a detailed worldwide maps and travel guide app that offers topographic contour maps for outdoor activities. It works completely offline, even with GPS, making it great for use abroad or in the wilderness without data roaming charges. The app includes online routing with voice guidance and various other features.
Users are given one offline city for free, with the option to upgrade in-app to access unlimited worldwide offline maps and the topographic maps feature. Africa standard maps are always free, with other rotating locations also available.
The app has received positive reviews, with praise for its technology and features. The maps are of beautiful retina quality and are detailed and interactive. Users can personalize the maps to show the information they want and can access them both online and offline to save on data roaming costs.
For travelers, Pocket Earth provides information about thousands of interesting places, including hotels, restaurants, bars, tourist sites, and even metro and public transit information. It also offers more than 25,000 detailed Wikivoyage Travel guides and over 1 million Wikipedia articles in seven languages, all offline. Users can customize the maps with pins, favorites groups, and notes, as well as share map links and their current location.
For adventurers, an in-app purchase option offers topographic maps with high performance and high accuracy contour display worldwide. The app also includes hiking and cycling maps, GPS track recording, import/export support for GPX and CSV files, and numerous GPS settings for preferred configurations.
Pocket Earth can be downloaded by selecting the desired cities, regions, or even entire countries, and it will be available for offline use with information on thousands of points of interest. The app also utilizes community driven open data sources from openstreetmap.org.
Please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life, and the app does not currently support all Asian texts on the map. For more information about Pocket Earth and the data sources used, please visit the website.