Record a track, measure a route, size up a basin

Tap out the walk from the truck before you make it, and the map gives the distance, the feet of climb and a walking time. Record the walk when you make it, and it is there next year.

Open the map All the map does

What it does

• Route. Tap out a line and the map gives its length. Ask for the climb and you get the feet up, the feet down and a walking time.
• Auto route. Pick a start and an end, say how steep you are willing to walk, and the map finds a walking line over the ground between them.
• Area. Tap around a basin, a burn or a park and the map gives its acres.
• Track. Record where you walk. The track is saved with its date, and can be coloured and named.
• Where you are, and how far and which way any spot is from you.

What to know

• On the website, track recording runs while the map is open with the screen on. It pauses if the phone sleeps.
• A walking time is a sum, from distance and climb. It knows nothing about deadfall, snow, a heavy pack or the dark. Add to it.
• The climb comes from the bare ground. A route that looks level on the map can cross a dozen small draws.

For the trip back with meat, the pack-out calculator works out the trips and the hours. For what hunters actually cover in a day, read how far hunters really walk.

Routes, areas and tracks can be saved out as GPX or KML, and brought in from another map app the same way.