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Show HN: Treeline – beautiful, powerful wilderness topo maps for iOS — Hey HN!<p>I really love hiking, camping, and backpacking, and I try to get out into the middle of nowhere as much as I possibly can. I could never leave on a trip without a good topo map downloaded.<p>Over the last couple years, though, I've gotten pretty fed up with the existing options when it comes to offline maps. Gaia is expensive and buggy; CalTopo is ugly, dated, and battery-sucking (the map is an embedded webview); AllTrails isn't fully-featured enough for serious backcountry trips; OsmAnd is ugly and lacks some basic features for the backcountry. Several major players have been purchased by private equity and are just getting worse.<p>I hate to be this critical of tools that have obviously had a lot of love and care put into them, but they haven't kept up with the times, and I really think the outdoor recreation community deserves better.<p>So Treeline is my attempt to build that. It has all the major features of Gaia et al. It has a fully custom basemap (with style inspiration from NPS and USFS maps - I think it's quite pretty!), offline downloads, POIs (campsites, water, etc.), detailed point info, search, navigation, route recording, saved features, 20+ useful layers, and a lot more.<p>You can download maps for offline use and access all the overlays for $18/year flat. That price is lower than any comparable app, and it will stay fixed through at least 2027.<p>I intend to implement pretty much every feature that people rely on in other outdoor mapping apps - although Treeline works well now, and I've used it on trips myself, this is just a start. I want it to be the mapping app of my dreams, and ideally of yours, too.<p>Two major caveats:<p>- Private land ownership data is expensive, so that will not be coming immediately. (The Public Lands layer lets you see inholdings, though.)<p>- Map data is US-only for now. Because the basemap is fully custom, changes require a long rebuild, and it turns out that the Earth is massive. I'm expanding to the rest of North America this week, with the rest of the world to follow.<p>I'm planning a web client for route building, and Android will follow if there's interest.<p>Please check it out and let me know what you think! Out now on the App Store: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/treeline-maps-topo-trails/id6761303613">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/treeline-maps-topo-trails/id67...</a>