Alminav is a smartphone app for hikers cyclists and other outdoor enthusiasts. One of its main advantages is that it can function offline as signals in the rural areas are often very weak. Maps can be downloaded in advance and are vectored so as to not take up a lot of space in the phone's storage. Navigation works offline with downloaded maps.

FEATURES
• Offline detailed hiking maps
• Offline route calculation with altitude profile
• Offline search for cities streets and pois
• Record GPS tracks as KML or GPX file
• Map display in the direction of movement
• Elevation charts
• Velocity charts
• GPS status display
• Speedometer
• Map styles can be choosed
• Map layers for contourlines hillshades and waymarked cycletrails

RECTANGULAR MAP TILES
Map tiles have different sizes and an extension of several longitudes and latitudes. Example: The section n48e005_2x2 contains the area between the latitudes north 48 ° and 50 ° (2 latitudes) and between the longitude east 5 ° and 7 ° (2 longitudes). The large map tiles cover a large part of Europe. From Scandinavia only Denmark and southern Sweden are included.

Map tiles cover the following areas:
• Germany
• France
• Denmark
• Benelux countries
• Austria
• Switzerland
• Spain
• Great Britain England and Wales
• Portugal
• Italy including Sardinia Sicily and Ischia
• Slovenia
• Bosnia Herzegovina
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Poland
• Hungary
• Slovakia
• The Alps
• The Mediterranean coast of Tunisia
• The Mediterranean coast of Turkey
• Balearic Islands
• Canary Islands

Maps are based on the data of OpenStreetMap (OSM).

UPGRADE
The limitation of maps import can be removed by in app purchases. One map tile can be imported for free.

APIS
• Vector maps rendering: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapsforge
• Route calculation: http://graphhopper.com
• Map download: https://firebase.google.com/