Outdoor Map Navigator

What I'd like to do is open the app and instantly see where I am on a map I've previously purchased. It's not capable of doing this, and that is so annoying that I regret having purchased the app and all the HD maps. Even worse, having opened the correct map, OMN can't locate me. It tells me there is no GPS signal, but Google maps has no problem. Even with an active wifi signal, location is poor... Frustrating to say the least.

Cannot create routes on the Android OMN. Has been like this for ages. Got all the mapping and then must use a pc to create a route, then transfer to android. Rediculous. Soooo frustrating after my expensive map purchase. Surely Anquet could licence Orux or another to use the mapping, then we could have a proper, fully featured navigator that does it all.

Extremely buggy both on Windows and Android. Error messages with no logging detail. Clearly hasn't been tested or designed properly. References to old support site where URLs have moved with no forwarding reference. Pathetic waste of my time.

Very disappointed with the app. Not very user friendly with limited functions. Downloaded GPX files onto your tablet or phone won't work. Needs to be downloaded onto a pc first then downloaded from the cloud. No real instructions either. Can't see why a pdf manual can't be made. Very complicated for something that can be simple. Spent a good bit of money on maps to find this out. I should have went back to Memory Map.

This is a good app that I use regularly for walking. It doesn't have a big impact on battery life, maybe 10% per hour? Initial setup to store maps on the SD card was tricky to work out and I suspect most people would give up before cracking it. Interface is good, but not polished. Definitely worth getting.

Update - there are instructions for moving the map data onto the SD card on the Anquet help forums - seems to have worked. Original: Great maps, and the app is pretty good generally, but it has put the map data into (limited) internal memory despite me selecting external in the options. I tried using the custom option, but that won't let me select external sd locations... Seems to be a bug here and it limits the usefulness, which is a shame

Short: Dont bother unless it is very cheap (mine was, 12 for hd lake district maps). Longer: Im coming from an old memory map, you installed app and it linked to your account. OMN have 2 accounts (even with same email) one for the shop and one for the app, this was not clear. The token is also ONLY emailed (not online)to unlock in the app. You also cannot install to SD card without knowing the proper path (mine was /storage/extSdCard). Very user unfriendly, im technically minded and i needed to google.

After using this app for two plus years and having tried other apps, I can firmly say this is the best of them all.It is now the number one app in my fell walking club, Everyone speaks highly of the software. Yes a bit of a learning curve but plenty of support if required. Highly recommended to serious out door enthusiast's. Not expensive to try out.

Unless I am missing something there are no maps available outside UK and France.

The best method I have come across to download and store selected areas of mapping (OS maps) in my phone, and in my p.c. All very usable if you give yourself a chance to get used to it. The app is free, the maps can be bought very cheaply compared to the same areas from the OS. I recently had some difficulties, the sales team were very helpful. To link to SD card in a phone you may need to go into settings and select custom and type in the location of the card manually, (which you can look up using a file manager app) the use button stays grey, you have to select external then custom again, it should then link to the SD card if you have given the correct address for it. My other difficulties were of my own making, mainly thinking I was logged in when I wasn't. A good app!

Will not load a map. It just sticks on "loading map tiles". Useless garbage that hasn't been updated in two years! Uninstalled.

Needed walking maps on hol, downloaded but could only download overall map with no local detail, spent 20mins trying to figure out a map. Guess you have to download to PC or something as I couldn't find a detailed map. Not for me

a little clunky but does to trick of having a map on your phone off line. having read their forums there is a lot of new stuff and fixes coming with the new version.

Just pops up a login form with no explanation. UX needs serious attention!

Just want to go walking with the dog, not spend hours trying to work out how this works. Back to Google maps.

Would not be without it. In conjunction with the PC version, it is a wonderful tool. Top marks.

Has never let me down and now that the maps are cheaper to buy am well content

I wish it was easier to export routes from the PC to an Android phone or that you could directly import routes to the phone.

Can't download maps from stream.

I bought my maps several years ago and would plan and print my routes on my PC. Now that I can have my maps and routes on my phone and tablet is the icing on the cake.

I use anquet on my pc...have done for years, now I can plan routes on the pc and sync them to my phone. I have the whole of the UK os maps on the phone so no signal required...note maps cost extra. OK, I've just dropped from 5 to 3 stars. Why? Well, in my view you shouldn't have to have a degree in computing to configure OMN to store the maps on an SD card! There are articles on the support site attempting to explain how to do it which I figured out after an hour or so. To me, the app should be environment aware. It should be able to cope with different versions of Android and their quirks.

The app has started crashing mid track log so now rather than getting an exact route of my journey I get a series of straight lines because the app has crashed and when I reopen it it resumes it's tracking and updates my position and draws a straight line between the two points! Used to love this app but now it's close to garbage unless it gets an update!

Been using this app for over 12 months as such it has had a lot of use. Extremely pleased with my purchase very functional and great to use. About six of my friends have taken the plunge and purchased. All very pleased with it. Highly recommended. You won't be dissapointed. Still very pleased with OMN, every time I use it I'm impressed. Always take a hard copy of the route that I printed. Very pleased with being able to add distance locators onto the map route.

In comparison to alternatives I have (Backcountry Navigator, OS mapfinder, viewranger, Mytrails etc) : Pros - can store offline maps on SD card; interface above average, symbiosis with PC program makes map purchase easier; easy to know which maps you have bought; HD maps are nice. Can print them out. Cons: can't import or export tracks into OMN from other sources except via PC; have to manually switch to between 1:25k to 1:50k map (and any other map) as you zoom in and out of which is a bit fiddly; can't buy maps via android so have to do it via PC; track recording and display a bit basic. Overall, better than others for OS maps, and my current best option in UK. I prefer Mytrails in France eg with IGN or free mapping, especially if you have 3/4g there. Mytrails has lost access to OS mapping, sadly.

Been using Anquet for years in various forms, this app works very well.

Crashes after about 10 seconds every time app is launched. Would give it a zero star rating if I could! An update - the app works & I even managed to work out getting it to save maps to external SD Card. But at the rate it is going it will take me about a decade to re download maps onto the device - I have to keep cancelling downloads, quit the app & start again. Still "null points" from me!

Why is it so complex? I'm not a computer ace by any means but I'm not a numbskull either - when I import a .gpx track file into the windows application, and sync to the cloud, I assume the track file should be available on the Android app? Then why can't I find it? I'm clearly doing something wrong, but I've no idea what! On the plus side, good maps, the basics work well on my PC and phone.

Unless I am missing something there are no maps available outside UK and France.

I bought the complete UK maps but cannot download them all because of limited internal space on my Galaxy tab 3. Transferred maps on an sd card are not found by the app. I can download them to my pc but who wants to go walking carrying a laptop? Not incredibly easy to use . . . Update I was contracted by Anquet who suggested a solution that worked. I now have the entire UK maps on my Galaxy tab 3. Maps are excellent quality with only a slight lag between adjacent areas. Excellent customer service.

Playing around with Android as contemplating the jump from iOS. I had the basic, costly but quite polished OS Mapfinder on iPhone and this looks a good alternative (especially as I cannot get the OS product to work!). With the addition of kinetic scrolling and more importantly the view to continually draw as you move & scale this would be a real killer app. Portability of the purchased data over different platforms makes this quite a compelling purchase if you have more than one operating system.

The app crashes regularly and I keep having to reload using valuable data

Should be seriously clever if I could figure out how to use it. Beautifully simple - no way. Clearly built by techies with an appalling user interface. The app interface is totally incomprehensible - it isn't user friendly to work out the button navigation or how to load a route from the cloud. I managed it by accident, but now can't repeat the steps. Syncing isn't immediate. I've lost maps and routes in the cloud somewhere.

It runs pretty smoothly, but the search is very slow and there is no option to drop a pin / add a point of reference.

Use it almost every day, never failed. OMN can be a fiddle sometimes but overall thoroughly worth the cost. Recommended.

Will not load a map. It just sticks on "loading map tiles". Useless garbage that hasn't been updated in over a year. Uninstalled.

Perfect for hill walks with the cadets.

Having tried every GPS app in the Play store and wasting a lot of money in the process. I believe this app combined with OMN PC pro to be better than any competing product. Anquet have the most flexible licencing regarding the maps use on multiple devices and they can be downloaded as many times as required without any fuss. Furthermore Anquet's support is first rate. The app just needs a bit more functionality such as waypoint navigation and it will be unbeatable!!!!

Been using this app for over 12 months as such it has had a lot of use. Extremely pleased with my purchase very functional and great to use. Little bit of a learning curve. Would not be without it. About six of my friends have taken the plunge and purchased. All very pleased with it. Highly recommended. You won't be dissapointed.

Love this app. Work out routes on my PC or download them from my walking group's web site and then sync them to my Galaxy S5. One point: have to use phone's internal storage and this means 7.8 GB of 16 GB storage taken up. Cant work out how to get maps to display on external sd card. Tip: always use phone or tablet in flight mode as this will save loads of battery life.

Absolute rubbish generates a load of expectation and doesn't deliver! I have been an Anquet fan from the early day's when the developers were keen enthusiasts. I do understand the need to make money but that objective has overtaken the desire to deliver a quality product