Eotopo km distance between locations etc when offline?

Refer to the scale in bottom right of the map, this shows a scale bar and distance in km - we use this all the time. Each zoom level on the map will of course have a different scale. 1km, 5km etc.

We have just travelled 3000km in WA over 10 days and saw road distances on many roads but not all roads show distances.

Even offline you can tap any place marker and it will show distance from your current position, whilst offline this will be straight line this number is usually pretty darn close.

I am currently planning a road trip across USA following Route 66 and using Google MY MAPS and Google Maps.

I looked and read about many navigator and all of them allow you to download the maps and work offline so I would assume that this one would do it as well.

Sam
Suggest you grab a copy of mapout from the appstore, the route creation tool will do what you want, no straight lines just tap where you want to go and it creates the route following the road and shows all the distances, must admit this tool leaves eotopo in its dust, (sorry Michelle).

Hi Sam,
I have always had the same problem and I believe it can be done via adding and inserting sections but complicated. I use wikicamps for all my trip planning and offgrid navigating. I use Traveller for position indication as you go....works well.

Regards
Scruffy

I run an iPad Mini and an iPhone XR.

The iPad runs EO Traveller (track up) and Memory Map (North up) in split screen mode. EO Traveller is set to close in view so that I can see immediate road direction in the next four or five kms (for passing opportunities). Memory Map (with Hema maps) is set to a much wider view and has good on-map notes. EO Traveller will log my travels using EO TrackMe.

The iPhone runs Wikicamps and MetroView. To navigate to the next camp, I select it in Wikicamps, select Get Directions and choose Metroview (costs $9.99 to buy and can be totally offline). MetroView has surprisingly good coverage of off-road tracks too (such as Anne Beadell, Gunbarrel and Gary Highways).

Maybe I go a little overboard, but it suits me!

Here's a few screen shots that I took whilst offline last week travelling in outback WA on way to Karijini and around etc. All are offline.



It is very easy to use the map when offline to find distance to anything you want - just press one of the Places and as per the screen shot you get the info.

You can also build Private Treks whilst online before you go if you specifically need routing guidance for every turn but I don't use that for general travelling - its good to do a bit of a plan, but if you deviate off the plan it's not so practical offline and if I do it, I only build Private treks for 1 day's travel at a time so that the timing all makes more sense.

We always travel solo and we deliberately plan our trips to go to areas we have never been. The app helped us find perfect camps without any symbols telling us where to go. It's the topographic detail and minor tracks that is astoundingly useful. I don't choose to leave campsite markers in places that might change due to weather conditions - one bush camp that is lush and perfect could be horrid in a few months time, but if people know how to use the maps to observe the terrain they can find their own camps just like we did. However, where there is a commercial campground, sure we'll ensure this is listed as a Place but I probably wouldn't aim to camp at any of these nowadays as they are full of other campers and that's not what we called ExplorOz - I just wish I had this level of mapping detail 20 years when we travelled for 2 years around Australia on our own - I wonder how we did it? LOL

On the issue of Wiki camps, I cannot understand how anyone can use these maps - totally useless! I think it is geared towards a different market and that's fine. We're not in competition with them. They aren't a map developer and its just lots of symbols on a blank screen most of the time for us so that's not much use. But if it is for others, that's fine for them. Its a free app for 7 days then you pay $8 or whatever. You get what you pay for.

I took some comparison shots at same place so show what Wiki Camps shows vs EOTopo (used in ExplorOz Traveller). See these below -


As you can see, same exact place but nowhere near the detail in Wiki camps as what you get on EOTopo. It was like this everywhere. I just gave up comparing, it was obvious to me it was useless.

EOTopo maps in our app show topographic map data to actually see the terrain and get a feel for where you are about to find a great river bed, or a rock - we discovered many great sites that are not listed on the maps - not on Wiki Camps, not even as Places in our app but that's the ideal situation because the reality of outback travel is that things happen and plans change - for us from day 1 my Private Trek plans went out the window as we had a fire and didn't make our first night's destination and had to readjust our next few days to reach our booking at Karijini 5 days later - but all good - we used the app to look for upcoming river beds, and interesting pois to help us as all my destinations were not achievable as soon as we got out of whack. In the end it was a blessing in disguise - we had much more open fires and really enjoyed ourselves.

Whilst it was a much needed family holiday, it was work the whole time for us too. We did a lot of testing - had the app loaded on 5 different devices, iPad, 2 Android phones, and our indash Android unit (Teyes) - wow it is just such an amazing device. The app worked perfectly on all devices - not a single glitch and perfect tracking the entire time (see our track log here - Karijini Family Trip - Track Log) however, I did find many areas of improvement needed in the app and a few small bugs were reported via email to us whilst we were away which we've amalgamated into a hit list.

First we dealt with bugs - which we fixed in a new update released yesterday v3.8.2 and all the new features David will do in the next update (perhaps 1-2 weeks) - sadly he has had a family emergency and the day after coming home, had to fly interstate to be with his elderly parents both in their mid 90's.

I've been testing v3.8.2 and the issues we knew about are fixed and now its just a matter of adding all the new features and adding tweaks, improvements I found were needed to make it even better.

Thanks for all those supporters of EOTopo maps and ExplorOz Traveller app. The more support we get, the more financial ability we have to continue development. Our business is only run by the two of us - we have no staff and we don't use any offshore developers, this is all done inhouse. We are very responsive to feedback and try to be as helpful as possible with technical support but most times people do just need to read the help/instructions and try using it and stop stressing about making treks. The app does everything offline and you don't need to pre plan as much as people think.

I think my main job now is to create more tutorials (and get better at it, they are so time consuming and hard to do). I'm not very good at it I think but I try. We just don't have the budget to get the professionals onto it, so sorry you have to make do with me!

You do a great job Michelle, it is a credit to both you and David. I would love to view a few more tutorials in the future as time permits you. This will help me greatly personally., as reading and understanding is a bit of a problem, where as tutorials are a better understanding. That's why Judy needs to correct my work before I send it

Hey Michelle.

You are undeservedly hard on yourself. Your tutorials and written instructions get the point across clearly. It is a throughly professional operation, product and support, not matched by others.

Us users could help by putting in photos and comments on places that don’t have any or much.

Cheers
John A