OS Maps

I've used this on a previous walk (with paper map as backup) with no problem. But today I used it again and the position it was giving was very odd, but definitely not where we were. I closed and re-opened but still no better. Not sure if this was android reporting an odd position, but would be good if the app gave an indication of position confidence, because today's experience has resulted in me not trusting the position reading at all, and so I won't be using this again, at least for a while.

Love this app. Incredibly useful and pretty much a life-saver at times. I climbed 446 mountains using the app in 2017 during an epic peak-bagging challenge. It never let me down. I found it very easy to use and incredibly useful in so many ways: for pinpointing my location when I was lost in mist (happened a lot!), for creating routes on my laptop in advance, and for recording walks. Absolute bargain too. £20 for a year. Cost me 5p per mountain I climbed. As with anything there are a few little quirks, and it takes a little while to get used to a few things, but all in all I love this app and fully recommend it.

Theoretically a good app but consumes way too much battery as once the app has started, the phone's GPS is constantly on even if the app is no longer on screen. It renders the app useless as it can't be used without draining the phones battery.

If I am in the middle of nowhere I want to know where I am and see an offline map with rock solid reliability. Please give an option to turn everything else on this app off it seems to be making it unstable.

This is a mapping app. So why does it need access to my identity and contacts?! Are you having a joke. Are you selling my contacts? Unbelievable. Also battery drain and zoom level mentioned elsewhere.

Used to think this was a brilliant app but now it is absolute rubbish. Really slow to refresh maps even at home with excellent WiFi. Using 4g just forget it. Downloaded maps don't appear either. Waste of memory on phone.

Tried again after deleting last time. Shame it is still rubbish in comparison to proper mapping apps ( Oruxmaps is the dogs b ). Wish I could import the 'Explorer Mobile Download' maps I have purchased into a decent app. 5 mins of use and phone reported excessive battery drainage due to this app. Can't zoom, can't track, horrible interface! OS concentrate on your mapping and leave the apps to people who have an idea of what is wanted. Last review:- What a shame OS spends its money on creating an app like this while View Ranger and Oruxmaps exist. Dont bother buying the paper map to use digital map download it doesnt work for plotting a route or following a route it's only a copy of the paper map. It seems to be an excuse for putting up the cost of the paper map. You cant import the digital map into other apps either. Update still doesnt upload gpx while oruxmaps works this app reports the gpx as empty or invalid it was created by gpsvisualiser.

Good mapping app except that it doesn't allow the maps to be zoomed in anywhere near enough. There ought to be a way to remove the AR icon if it's not being used (the AR is very inaccurate so useless on my phone)

It is clear the developers don't actually use this app. Great concept. Awful implementation and MILES behind the competition.

At last - maps that you can zoom through and accurate gps positioning, and you can leave way points on - Viewvranger does all of that with an OS subscription so goodbye OS map app - you've been disappointing me since 2015.

The app OS good, but soon as entered woods in light cover GPS was no good it left me at the main road, so if trying to follow a route you need to have some rough idea how to follow a map

For £25 for a 1 year subscription I expected something that worked consistently and didn't repeatedly crash and hang.

Instead of fixing bugs we get a useless "AR" and "Activity" gimmicks. A total battery hog - keeps GPS active even when in bacground, no 'orient map to travel direction' option, position marker that obscures where you are, ridiculously thick route lines that do the same.

This is a very poor offering compared to mapfinder. Much prefer being able to choose and pay for exactly the tiles I need rather than pay for a subscription that I probably only use the bare minimum of features from just to get 1:25k maps. Would probably hate it less if I could use my map tiles from mapfinder in it, saving me having multiple applications

Pretty useless. It didn't record my route probably when in the background. Just drew straight line between last known point to new active location. I'm using premium but thankfully only on a month trial.

Great app i use it for trailriding on a motorbike but there are some things that NEED to be added like how you have the pc version where you can edit a route from the middle just by moving the corner points as having to delete half a route to edit it is just infuriating. You also NEED to add a option to choose where to start a route. And you also could add a section for green laning as lots of people use this app for greenlaning on byways and public routes of access but you only have options for cycling and walking completely alienating that market. Apart from that its a good app you just need to implement those features badly.

On the whole pretty useful,I mainly use it to record runs, and this is where the draw back is. It cannot record the time accurately at all, often 20 mins in the hour out. Being that this is on a phone with an accurate clock it's a bit odd, and a let down.

Can't access from my other device, keeps saying your device doesn't support this app, So basically useless because I can't view maps on a larger screen, or a device with more memory cap. Total pain in the back side.

"This operation couldn't be completed"... That'll be finding walking routes on a route finding map, where there certainly are routes. Disgraceful. You are humiliating yourself OS Maps. Invest in the app or withdraw it.

Have only tried the free version so perhaps the premium version is better, but will be uninstalling the free version as it's pretty useless because it's impossible to zoom in to see and read details. Needs a magnifying glass to read!

Both great and poor. Maps are brilliant and the 'standard' map is clutter - free. Being able to see and print any OS map is wonderful. (laser printer else the ink runs!) Zoom works differently by device. On my phone the 1:25000 fully zoomed map is only 2/3 of the size of the same thing on my tablet. Neither matches the paper map and both are smaller than on my PC. Regrettably these are raster maps so cannot zoom enough and for fine detail need a magnifying glass. It should also show the scale otherwise plotting a route is the only way to find out how far anything is. Claims "View, create and sync your activities between desktop and mobile." Doesn't sync downloaded routes. Doesn't allow saving favourites, you have to export then import. Brilliant idea of 'Snap to path' in National Parks is PC only, and let down badly by poor data as many paths are not included or don't join at junctions! Off line works well by saving an area for use where there is no signal. Since late December update, on both phone and tablet, whenever I try to do something different, even just zooming, it has a pop up that says "the operation couldn't be repeated", yet it seems to work. Just back from a 6.2 mile walk with it recording the route, and looking at the screen every now and then - battery down from 93% to 78% on year old Huawei Mate 9.

Great app but PLEASE sort out the zoom level. I have to screen shot then zoom in on the picture.

Save your money. Can't get maps to show or download. Useless. Latest update added useless features if the maps don't work.

Can't get maps to redraw when zooming in or out on premium edition. Email help is slow to dead slow

I am a Premium member but the app is not showing the AR feature on my phone, though it has appeared on my tablet. What gives?

The iPhone version seems to have a greater number of more useful features. Route download and off road routing are examples of features seemingly absent from the Android version.

The advantage of Ordnance Survey over Google or Open Street Map is in the access to information like public footpaths. Unfortunately, these are all paid features on OS Maps. The free functionality is not great - trying to view green spaces turned the map into a flashing disco floor of tiles and blank spaces on my device, map zooming is jerky and disjointed - and doesn't inspire confidence that the paid features will be better implemented. Uninstall.

Very poor. Google maps far superior

Why is the zoom function limited? On OS Mapfinder you can zoom in to frankly a ridiculous degree - but normally you just zoom enough to check details on a small phone screen. With OS Maps the zoom is limited and with the large 'red arrow' it is often hard to see where you are in tricky situations. I can see no virtue in limiting this function - it should be left to users to use it sensibly.

No warning before renewal date and I had forgotten it was the cheaper auto renew price. I no longer use or want it but am stuck with it because of their no refunds policy. Very sharp practice. Be warned.

Close to being excellent. Basic things like editable waypoints would be significantly more useful than augmented reality... Also a heavy drain on battery.

Terrible app. Crashes constantly and now just shows a grey outline. Shame because the mapping is otherwise excellent.

Works as expected but what is with the HUGE pink arrow on top of your location. Clearly it's in the way, especially on A1:25k map

Would be nice if you was able to import the maps that you have already purchased on OS mapfinder.

Wasted £23. I'll stick to paper maps.

Why does the app say subscribe for £23.99 when online desktop says £19.99?

Just upgraded to premium and all working well

Super helpful offline maps.

Great on my pc, but hugely hobbled on mobile devices. Slow display and download, huge direction arrow and route tracks obliterate useful map features. A few tweaks and this would be a good or even great app. Try harder!

Just returned from 3 days in the lake district and I totally gave up on this app as it failed to place me on any map. Apparently thought I was in a thick fog-bank...useless! Don't buy this but stick with Google maps - even up a 700m peak.