Mapy.cz: maps & navigation

Jonas Westin

1 year ago

Good maps and very good and dependable offline functionality. Maps are NOT vetted and you should always get a second source or verify any routes for alpine routes or routes in unknown terrain (sometimes eg ridge climbs are included as hiking paths without any hint that a full trad rack or via ferrata set is needed). Would be cool to be able to pull a gpx track straight into the app without having to use the web sign-in.

Bogdan-Marius P.

1 year ago

As far as I'm concerned, the most complex and detailed graphics and spot on trails. It never failed me, even at difficult times finding water the map helped a lot , used it in Europe and all the Andes intensely.... P.s. better than maps me or whatever other free map, really worth it a donation. Thank you guys, you've been my eyes for many years now :)

Adrian M

1 year ago

I rate it 3* because of the potential the app has. The maps are decent, the offline works, I like most the altitude and the weather factor in route estimation. Lots of good things about the app but the registration process is terrible and I gave up registering. They require an SMS to be sent to an international number, which is blocked by many North American carriers. The app developers either don't know this or they don't care, otherwise they would remove the SMS registration immediately.

Roman

10 months ago

Nice feature to be able to save planned trips. Negative for the app is that the time calculations does not take your pace into account. For every three hours of walking i usually cut one hour from the time, so if you walk faster than 3km/h you can not relly on time calculation.

Stanisław Zagórowski

10 months ago

Great app, accurate trails, incredible offline support, and an often-omitted feature: you can turn off rotating the map with two fingers, which makes it great to use in cold weather, rain or in gloves.

Nicolai Cauchy

9 months ago

Inaccurate for trails in my area (Valromey, France) and doesn't consider comments/updates - I've alerted Mappy several times to trails no longer in existence or impossible to pass (due to privatization, logging destruction, etc...) with supporting photos, but Mappy doesn't update their maps. UNRELIABLE, BEWARE!

Mikael Johansson

10 months ago

Great for offline navigation on hikes. Their website is phenomenal for planning hikes beforehand on a laptop, it has a 3D mode like Google Earth which can plot routes both on hiking maps or aerial maps. This is my go to site/app for both trail planning and navigating. Just create an account and the routes will sync to your phone, can even share and collaborate on routes.

Martin Swingler

2 years ago

Great app in many respects. Even works better in England than Google Maps. English navigation is a downside. Czech placename pronunciation is completely unfathomable; it makes no sense whatsoever. Why not pronounce placenames as they should be pronounced? I speak Czech and live in Czechia. I choose to use the English version, as I prefer the app’s menu to be in English. The navigation narrator’s English is incorrect in several respects. I’d send detailed feedback if I knew where to send it.

Steven Lefavour

2 years ago

I think I love this app So far, the map collection is really good, though I just have used it at home for trip planning and virtual touring. ¡This app has an SOS feature! You can use it to call for aid; it seems to pull up the local telephone info for your location, gives a precise map coordinate and allows you select from a list of first aid responses. Výborně!

Jakub Calouseque

1 year ago

So far most user friendly app - legible, fast, intuitive, practical - as compared to laptop, the best feature is however customizable plotting of loop tracks . It will create loop tracks based on your input parameters...splendid if you do not know the area.As compared to backcountry guru maps, and viewranger If you travel worldwide this is the best even with the limited topo capabilities, e.g. slope available on line only. Definitely great back up for usually unreliable gps plotting apps. Still

Jim Hewett

2 years ago

Simple, guick, great maps, works when the net does not. Good to have in your pocket. Would be perfect if waypoints and tracks were saved to the device rather than someone's cloud. But hey, its free. It has replaced all my other gps apps (and there have been several) because it is simple and works well.

Nitsan Bar

1 year ago

A really great mapping app, best I've found. However, the integration with Seznam is quite bad. They make you register (for saving paths) even though nobody wants their account. They try to get your information, e.g. phone number, year of birth. The reset password mechanism is broken. Opening a second account with the same number is broken. All in all, a world class app integrated with a bad provider.

Hayes Weggeman

2 years ago

I like the app. It works well. I did have an issue recently while walking where it seemed to send me 180 deg from where I should have been going. After asking someone for directions I corrected my path and after walking a while the app seemed to correct and then took me to the correct location. You download your maps before hand and then you don't need any wifi nor cellular connection after that, just have your phone gps enabled and it works good.

Robert Clark

1 year ago

This has been my go to map for hiking, bicycling, and motorcycling for about 6 years now. And it's free to use with offline downloads, and you can record tracks. I've used it all over tur world, even has tracks in remote places like Tajikistan and Afghanistan. I'm so greatful for the friend that shared it with me. I'm sure there are subscription maps with more detail, but mapy has always been good enough for me.

Petr Majer

3 years ago

I don't use mapy.cz for driving very much, but for hiking or other outdoor activity it is by far the best map app I've ever used. And I've tried multiple. Downloading offline maps is very easy and setting up routes and navigation is intuitive. It's a Czech app but has trails for any country in the world. Have used it in Scotland, Armenia, USA, Bulgaria and Switzerland and everywhere it's very useful

First Last

9 months ago

Track recorder is practically useless- to save any recorded track the app requires data/Internet access AND some online account (like anyone actually needs yet another account). And Internet access isn't something readily available in the boonies- while hiking in a forest or NP. I wonder if the developers ever get out of the office and experience the actual outdoors to have come up with this "brilliant" solution. Ever heard of OFFLINE functionality, especially for a mapping app of all things !

SL “S”

1 year ago

Good and it's free! I will give 5 stars if have all the gravel bike trails, bike lanes, and more options of how to custom bike routes such as easy ride and avoid busy traffic roads. Plus need to have more options of choosing different types of bicycle such as gravel, touring, etc. It will be really nice and to use when planning routes just be able to draw right on the road not Markers. Please add this features in future updates thank you! Kudos to the developers, you are awesome! Thank you!👍🏼