Trimble is a name that many outdoors enthusiasts will understand. Trimble makes a bunch of different handheld GPS devices to help you navigate in the woods or perhaps on the trials. The company has a brand new app for the iPad that is called the Backpacker Map Maker app as well as is specifically for the iPad. The touch user interface of the app allows the hiker or perhaps backpacker to find just where they would like to go using seamless topographical maps.

The app has maps for the US and Canada as well as allows them to see, create, as well as annotate maps right on the tablet screen. It also offers aerial, hybrid, street, as well as terrain maps. Access to over 68,000 USGS topo maps that are stacked together as well as enhanced in MyTopo mode is included. A wealth of other features makes this a very useful app.



It has place search to find campgrounds and peaks. Dual maps let the user turn on dual map mode for precise trip planning with street maps as well as topo maps on screen at once. The trip plans is saved to the cloud, waypoints is marked, and has a ruler tool, as well as a digital compass. The app also has GPS coordinates. The app is free for the next seven days and then it will be a paid app.


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