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Does anyone use any topographic maps or app on their phones?
I'd like to be able to reference some maps as I'm tracking game through the bush. I havent found any apps that are decent should I just get some old fashioned maps?
 
Modern technology is nice, but there is nothing more reliable than a good old fashioned topo map, and a compass. I have wilderness canoed all over Canada, when GPS came out we used them, but always but always in conjunction with a topo map and a good traditional compass.
 
Oh 100 percent there's been lots of times where my gps or phone are in dead zones not to sound like a novice but where is the best place to get topographic maps?
 
In BC we used to have maps unlimited for topos, not sure if they’re still around. IHunter has a cacheable topo option for its map page, I haven’t used it much as I normally use the sat image option.
 
I like Gaia GPS.
The web version syncs with the IPhone App.
You can also download a map to the app for use offline for use if there is no cell service.
Premium subscription to get the full selection of map layers was $40 a year.

And you can also print out hard copies of the topomap from the web based version to carry along.
 
The free Avenza app was designed for offline topo maps. Works on Android and iPhone.

The older Toporama 1:50000 maps are available in their map store for free and you can download them to your phone.

And a whole bunch of better (more recently updated) topo maps are available as well for purchase.

For Toporama, here are the indexes for the whole of Canada, and with which you can figure out what maps you will need:

http://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/vector/index/index_pdf/
 
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