OS Maps: Walking & Bike Trails 4+

Plan hikes, runs & bike rides

Ordnance Survey

    • 4.7 • 224 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Try OS Maps premium for free with our two-week trial. Get more from the outdoors with routes, mapping & navigation tools from the experts at Ordnance Survey

Create your adventures your way & let OS Maps guide you on stunning routes across the UK & beyond. Get more from the outdoors, with more freedom to explore, more confidence to tackle that next challenge & more adventures along the way. OS Maps is the official app by Ordnance Survey & your guide in the great outdoors.

Why you’ll love using OS Maps:

EXPLORE & PLAN HIKES, RUNS OR RIDES
Whether you are planning a walk, hike, run or ride; OS Maps lets you create outdoor adventures with trusted mapping & navigation tools from the experts at Ordnance Survey, Britain’s national mapping service.

DISCOVER THOUSANDS OF READY-MADE ROUTES
Get outside with curated routes from outdoor experts & organisations such as Trail, Country Walking, Mountain Bike UK, BBC Countryfile & more.

ICONIC OS MAPPING
Subscribe to unlock the detail & accuracy of OS leisure maps including OS Explorer 1:25,000 & OS Landranger 1:50,000 & now with global mapping & topographic mapping for USA, Australia & New Zealand to keep you exploring all over the world.

CREATE YOUR OWN ADVENTURES
Best in class route planning & navigation tools mean you can get off the beaten track & explore with more freedom. Plan routes with quick & easy snap-to-path route plotting, then save & share with your friends to plan that next epic day in the outdoors.

NO SIGNAL? NO PROBLEM
Download maps & routes to your phone to view offline, so they’re ready, whenever & wherever you need them. View any part of GB even without signal & export to your GPS device.

UNLIMITED PRINTING
Print copies of all your routes & maps to take with you, so you always have a backup to hand.

USE ON EVERY DEVICE
Sync your activities between across devices, on desktop, mobile & Apple Watch. On desktop, premium users can use our 3D Aerial Layer & route fly-throughs to see the landscape, terrain & explore in stunning 3D.

TRACK & RECORD ACTIVITIES
Use the activity recording feature to keep a log of your activity history. Follow along, save your activity, review it & turn it into a new route to share & follow again later.

RECOMMENDED BY THE EXPERTS
Ordnance Survey is proud to partner with Mountain Rescue England & Wales, with OS Maps as their recommended app to help you keep on track, & keep safe when heading outside.

TABLETOP 3D
Preview a route before you tackle it, ensure it’s suitable for your level of fitness & avoid any surprises. Our 3D model feature lets you check out your routes from the comfort of your home.

SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
OS Maps premium is available through a 1 month or 1 year subscription. Prices are posted in GBP but may vary by country or when converted to local currency. Subscriptions will auto-renew. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, & identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user & auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
Terms & Conditions at os.uk/termsosmaps

USEFUL INFORMATION
Battery life while using the app can be extended downloading maps offline prior to use, operating in Flight Mode (the GPS will still work) & turning off the screen when not in use. We release updates to all of our apps on an ongoing basis to improve stability & add extra features. Topographic mapping is available for UK (including Northern Ireland), USA, Australia & New Zealand. Your feedback & comments about this app are important to us. Leave a review or use os.uk/contact to get in touch.
*This feature uses Apple's ARKit which requires an iPhone 6s, iPhone SE, iPad 2017, iPad Pro or any later device.

What’s New

Version 5.0.5

This release is a major update to the app which improves the ease of use and modernises the look and feel of OS Maps.
Major changes include:

• Introduction of a 5 bar navigation menu to make it easier to find features
• New ‘Home’ tab including shortcuts, recommended partner routes, and learn tutorials
• My routes, bookmarked routes, and offline maps now all found in a convenient ‘Saved’ tab
• The app can now be viewed in light or dark mode, depending on your system settings

Additional new features include:

• When viewing a route, you can scroll the elevation chart to see height along the route
• On the Maps tab you can choose to see the mapping in full screen mode
• When plotting a route, you can now reverse route direction
• When searching for a route you can filter by circular or point to point routes
• When recording an activity, you can now minimize the recording and continue to use other app features

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
224 Ratings

224 Ratings

Jja76421 ,

Must have for hiking in the UK

If you’re going hiking in the UK and not taking this app on your smartphone then you are a fool.

Definitely worth the cost of the premium version to get access to the detailed maps and offline maps.

OS maps always had amazing accuracy and detail - now you can use gps on your phone to see exactly where you are among all that detail.

Great for planning free form hikes to get you off the beaten path.

Only thing the app can’t tell you is the condition of the trail or footpath you are going to hike on - huge clumps of stinging nettles are a real thing - but you can use the app to replay your hike on the fly to avoid whatever you encounter that you don’t want to deal with.

All this for less than the cost of a single paper map - it’s a bargain!

Developer Response ,

Hi Jja76421, thanks for your review! We're pleased you're enjoying OS Maps!

Dr Poston ,

Major technical issues syncing to iPhone and I Pad

When I originally installed the apps and upgraded to Premium, everything worked fine. I logged out, but could never log back in with my premium subscription, both on the website and on the smart devices. I was finally able to log back on to their website but only by changing my password, which is ridiculous. And when I used the new password on my iPhone and iPad, in both cases I received the message that an unexpected error had occurred. Technical support did their best to help but the issue remains unresolved.

There’s another feature of the app that is very annoying (this was before all my technical issues). The screen has a window with the option to start navigation. I only wanted to look at the route, not navigate. Unfortunately this window takes up a significant part of the screen, blocking a large part of the map. For some unknown reason, you can not close this window, and tech help said that the app developers aren’t currently going to change it.

All in all, it’s a great app when it worked for me, and most people don’t appear to have had the problems I’ve experienced. I hope that tech people read this and do some more development work.

Developer Response ,

Hi Dr Poston, we're really sorry you experienced this issue. We are aware of these issues, and will be updating the app very soon to address them, please look out for the update and let us know if this resolves the issues for you.

Jonathan M.C. ,

Just terrible

I downloaded a paper map, then zoomed in on it, but it failed to show up. I close & reopen map; still not showing. Then I kill the app, reopen, and finally the map shows on zoom in. Really this app is poorly map. I think I will move to AllTrails instead. OSM is so much better now.

Previous complaint: drove to remote location with no mobile phone to do a hill walk. Opened the app and nothing worked: it had logged me out and refused to show my downloaded map. There I was, in the wilderness, and no electronic map! Thankfully, I brought paper map. This app is useless to me if it requires mobile data to operate on hill walks!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for getting in touch and very sorry for the experience that you've had. Offline maps is a vital part of the app and as such, our engineers are working to fix a couple of issues that are coming up in rare cases. Please keep an eye out for one of the next releases where we hope to have the issue fixed. If you continue to get any more issues after updating, please drop our customer service centre a message with your details and a description of the issue: CustomerServices@os.uk - thanks a lot for bearing with us.

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