Methana topoGuide

Μethana topoGuide is a digital field guide for hiking and tourism in Methana peninsula, Attica, Greece.

It includes routes, descriptions and photos for 9 hiking trails, and 2 geological tours. Each trail has an elevation profile, a statistic analysis, a detailed description, several photos and a POIs list.

Methana is part of the Aegean volcanic arc; the whole peninsula is the result of a volcanic eruption and both its landscape and history are marked by this peculiar origin

The application offers detailed off-line maps and an extensive introduction on geography, geology, the most important settlements and monuments, and the nature of Methana peninsula. The app offers also a useful list of POIs (almost all accommodations are included) with a comprehensive search engine.

In the field, the application identifies the nearest route and make active navigation to it and then along it, with continuous messages to the user, while pops-up photos on every interesting or important terrain feature close to his position. If the hiker position is more than 20 meters far from the trail, the application warns him and suggests how to go back.

The cartographic company AnaDigit, creator of the application, has issued hundreds of hiking maps for Greece (eg. maps of Kalymnos, Santorini, Crete, Mt. Olympus, Zagori, Sifnos, Naxos and other Aegean islands).