Colored Maps with GPS
Routespunkt Hiking Grid Diary has a map for you to:
a) Configure Start and End points of your route
b) Add places of interest as Waypoints along the route
c) Search places of interest around a specific place you visit
Maps Features
Maps and your Places to Hike
When planning a day's travel, add POIs to the Waypoints map, and get an optimized route on the Waypoints map.
Look at the total distance to travel and estimated ETA, to plan for and enjoy your moments with a relaxed schedule.
The Waypoints map depicts your route of travel.
On the Camping Supplies page, you can plan your Hiking gear in advance. Make your packing list checklist with camping gear associated to each Waypoint.
Make Waypoints for places to hike, POIs to visit on the way, and gear shop/s to rent/buy your hiking gear.
On the trip day, track your GPS location on the Waypoints Map.
When you're at a POI, refresh the Altitude display to see approximate altitude.
Long tap on the Around Me map. Tap to select the newly inserted Map Annotation. Try Quick Word Search to find a new place to explore around selected Annotation and seek a new adventure!
Or,
Delete all free floating Map Annotations (doing this removes the ones that are not Waypoints). Try Quick Word Search to find a new place to explore around your current location.
Waypoints Map
1. Variety of Travel Modes
This app includes the following travel modes: 1. Pedestrian 2. Bicycle 3. Motor Cycle 4. Car 5. Van 6. Bus 7. Truck
3. Variety of Route Types
Choose from a variety of route types: 1. Economic 2. Thrilling a) Hilliness: Normal / Low / High b) Windingness: Normal / Low / High 3. Shortest 4. Fastest
5. Along Route Search
On the Waypoint selection screen, search is performed along the entire route. Mention a max detour time (in vehicle settings page) and the search results will respect that based on latest displayed route and settings. Note: For Trip Illustration, its good to cover each day's travel stories in one or more Articles. For cases where you travel to 3 different places that are more than 60 minutes from each other, use map zoom, pan and long press to insert annotations for Waypoints
7. State of current traffic
The Consider Traffic setting can be toggled to view the current traffic on the road. Traffic is indicated with the usual Green, Amber and Red colors. The Waypoints Map and the Around Me Map show the traffic indicator lines overlaid on the road network
2. Road Types Avoidance
Avoid specific types of roads: 1. Toll Roads 2. Ferries 3. Unpaved roads 4. Carpools 5. Already used roads 6. Motorways
4. Intelligent Search
Search with a typo - German bckers - (German bakers), and you'd get results containing ecker, becker and baker!
6. Search Results Grouping
When you perform a search, the results are neatly displayed in groups. You can zoom in to view individual results: a) Zoom with pinch gesture b) Zoom by tap on a group
8. Hazardous Cargo Parameters
Truck drivers who carry hazardous cargo can specify the hazard code, and get a viable route
Around Me Map
1. Quick Word Search
Travel-related words have been provided as individual Search terms on buttons at the bottom of the Around Me page. Tapping such a button will fetch the same search results - as if you'd typed on the Search bar and searched
3. State of current traffic
The Consider Traffic setting can be toggled to view the current traffic on the road. Traffic is indicated with the usual Green, Amber and Red colors. The Waypoints Map and the Around Me Map show the traffic indicator lines overlaid on the road network
2. POIs around me
Search radius setting drives the search results displayed. Keep this value small for local search, and very big for world search. When there are no annotations selected, search is performed around your current location. If you insert an annotation beyond the search radius around you, performing a search will fetch results around that point
Choose from a variety of map or route styles.
Take snapshots of the Waypoints and Around Me maps and save the map snaps to camera roll.
Canvas
On the Moments Canvas Page, add one or more map snaps as floating image panels.
Add floating text panels and scribble / type to narrate your special moments from the trip.
Send these over to the Intelligent Shapes Canvas.
Draw arrows across the map snaps, to show the location of your adventurous hike, camp, delicious food joint, snorkeling points, or surfing paths at the beach.
Waypoints Map Page
