AlpineQuest Explorer Lite

Transform your smartphone into a robust off-road GPS with offline topographic maps! With AlpineQuest, you can enjoy outdoor adventures without the worry of ads, data sharing, or third-party intrusions. It's the ultimate tool for a wide range of activities like hiking, running, trailing, hunting, sailing, geocaching, and off-road navigation.

AlpineQuest allows you to download and store a vast selection of online topographic maps locally, ensuring you have access to them even in areas without cell service. It also supports numerous onboard file-based raster map formats, making it versatile for different mapping needs.

Utilize your device's GPS and magnetic sensor (complete with a compass display) to stay precisely located on the map in real-time. The map can even be oriented to align with your current viewpoint, ensuring you never lose your way.

Save and manage unlimited placemarks, and easily share them with friends. Track your routes, access advanced statistics, and view interactive graphics to enhance your outdoor experience. AlpineQuest is designed to function fully without cell coverage, making it perfect for exploring remote wilderness areas.

Start your adventure with the free Lite version today!

For any suggestions or issues, please use our dedicated forum at https://www.alpinequest.net/forum (no registration required, all queries are answered) instead of leaving comments.

Key Features (Full Version):

★★ Maps ★★

• Built-in online maps with automatic local storage, including road, topo, and satellite maps, and additional online layers such as road names, hillshade, and contours.
• Access a wide range of online maps and layers from our community list, covering major global and local topographic maps.
• Complete area storage of online maps for offline use.
• Support for onboard offline maps (raster) including KMZ Overlays, OziExplorer OZFx2, OZFx3 (partial), calibrated images, GeoTiff, GeoPackage GeoPkg, MbTile, SqliteDB, and TMS zipped tiles. Visit our website for MOBAC, the free map creator.
• QuickChart Memory Map support (only .qct maps, .qc3 maps not compatible).
• Built-in image calibration tool for using any scan or picture as a map.
• Digital elevation model onboard storage (1-arcsec SRTM DEM) and support for HGT elevation files (1-arcsec and 3-arcsec resolutions) to display terrain, hillshade, and steep slopes.
• Polar maps (Arctic and Antarctic) support.
• Multiple maps in layers display, with customizable opacity, contrast, color, tint, and blending for each map.

★★ 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.
• Save and share online locations with other users via Community Placemarks.
• Access details, advanced statistics, and interactive graphics on various items.
• Use the Time Controller to replay time-tagged tracks.

★★ GNSS Position / Orientation ★★

• On-map geolocation using device GNSS receivers (GPS/Glonass/Galileo/…) or Network.
• Map orientation, compass, and target finder functionalities.
• Built-in GNSS/Barometric track recorder capable of long tracking in a separate, light process, with battery level and network strength recording.
• Proximity and leave path alerts.
• Barometer support for compatible devices.

★★ Additional Features ★★

• Support for metric, imperial, nautical, and hybrid distance units.
• Various latitude/longitude and grid coordinate formats (WGS, UTM, MGRS, USNG, OSGB, SK42, Lambert, QTH, etc.) with on-map grids display.
• Import hundreds of coordinate formats from https://www.spatialreference.org.

What's New in Version 2.3.8d

Last updated on Aug 14, 2024

• New setting to customize the display style and side of the menu bar.
• Enhanced support for recent Android versions.
• Improved backup and restore tool.
• Updated default URL for sharing coordinates as text.
• Option to set the application's "Media" folder as default for placemarks, icons, pictures, and file-based maps.
• Added Croatian and Persian translations.
• Various improvements and bug fixes.