Offline terrain maps by Mountain Hub
By: Brynne Morris
Mountain Hub, a community-fueled app for the outdoors, released new features today for tracking outdoor adventures on iOS and web. Now, whether you are rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking, or backcountry skiing, you can record your activity in one place, take photos along the way, and easily share a summary of your trip with your best photos overlaid on the route.
Using Adventure Tracking is a great way to contribute to the greater community or just keep a log of your favorite experiences. You can pull up your Mountain Hub user profile to show off any of your trips, or explore the map to plan a new one with friends. To view trails in more detail, use the terrain layer overlay to visualize elevation, slope, and the pitch of trails.
What good is an outdoor app if you don’t have a reliable map? Mountain Hub uses our offline mobile maps to make sure lack of cell service doesn’t get in the way of exploring rugged, far-reaching places. Because if you don’t escape cell phone coverage, did you really go backpacking?
With offline maps, you’re able to download a map of your trek and continue to add notes and images along the way — whether you’re connected or not. Once you’re back online, your adventure journal will sync with your online Mountain Hub profile so all your trips are in one place.
At the end of your journey, Adventure Tracking will ask questions like “How are the trail conditions?” or “How was the snow?” in order to crowd source the most recent data for others planning their next trip.
If users report a washed out path, or a collapsed bridge, Mapbox and OpenStreetMap make it easy for Mountain Hub to update trail information quickly:
“After adding in trail data, a day later we could see the new trail on our maps. We were able to pull data in close to real time and quickly make it available to users.” — Olivier Brand, CTO, Mountain Hub
We’re excited for Mountain Hub’s latest release, and to be a part of their exciting approach to connecting the outdoor community. Download the app and share your adventures with us on Twitter!
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