BackCountry Navigator Android GPS App: The Most Trusted Wilderness Companion
Online, November 19, 2013 (Newswire.com) - CritterMap Software LLC, the brain behind one of the most useful outdoor Android app, the BackCountry Navigator Android GPS App. This software app works well on both Android smartphones and tablet PCS.
BackCountry Navigator Android GPS App able you to explore beyond cell coverage for hiking and other outdoor activities and adventures. Download topo maps for the US and many other countries in advance, so even if you don't have cell coverage you can still use it.
About topo maps, it shows terrain through color and contours. BackCountry Navigator Android GPS is best used when doing offroad navigation as well as when engaging in hiking, hunting, kayaking, snowshoeing, & backpacker trails. You can even create your own maps with Mobile Atlas Creator, or specify a custom tile server. The app has built in sources such as:
OpenStreetMaps from MapQuest
OpenCycleMaps showing terrain worldwide
US Topo Maps from Caltopo and the USGS
USTopo: Aerial Photography with markup.
Canada Topo Maps from Toporama
Marine maps: NOAA RNC Nautical Charts (coastal)
USGS Color Aerial photography
Topographic Maps of Spain and Italy
Topo maps of New Zealand
Japan GSI maps.
Many of the above features and functions are generally free to use. Besides geocaching, you can use BackCountry Navigator Android GPS App for recording tracks and GPS waypoints of your trip, all the while monitoring your GPS quest on topographic maps. What more interesting, it may replace your Garmin handheld GPS. The map sources are great and the ability to download aerial and topo map tiles for offline use is very helpful in the wilderness where cell coverage is a problem, limited or nonexistent.
The CritterMap Software Company is based at Camas, Washington. The team aims to create and launch software that will be of big help to the users especially if they more of an outdoor enthusiasts. The software is proven to be one of the best as many people from all around the world have already used BackCountry Navigator Android GPS App as their perfect companion when touring and adventuring.
To know more about BackCountry Navigator Android GPS App, please visit http://www.backcountrynavigator.com/