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BM Steve · Guru

Back Country Navigator for Android

Padowan · Senior Member

For those in the UK Back Country Navigator also allows you to download (or cache using proper terminology) the Ordnance Survey maps too. Both 1:25k and 1:50k scales are available, you can select a whole area and download the map files at home on your Internet, then use them or in the field without any data connection.

BM Steve · Guru

Hi Simon, you been using this app for a while have you ?

So far it hasn't made an error and stays locked on as long as you keep the GPS running all the time

what type of phone you using.

A trick I have been using lately is to create a track in google maps and then make a copy

name them "yourname layer1 and yourname Layer2

then load them both and make them both visible, what it does is makes the density of the track colour much darker

if you look at the screen shots some are 2 layers and some are 1 layer, slight colour difference but makes a difference

when on the trails.

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Padowan · Senior Member

Generally on the bike i use something different, MMTracker, which allows me to use all my old memory map files is which I have for a lot of the country. It does what i need for planning and running routes and for displaying the overlays we have in the uk that show the legal reasons, so that's my go-to tool. I tend to use BC Nav only if I'm browsing or travelling to an area that I don't have the OS Map files for. Both the above running on a Samsung Galaxy S4, in a waterproof case when in the bike!