Alpingo: Trails, GPS & Mining
Ali Can
Alpingo is a field GPS for hikers, climbers, geologists and prospectors. Save an area once — map, terrain, peaks and trails — and navigate, draw, route and log samples with no signal at all. NEW: PEAKS, 3D & GEOLOGY TOOLS • Peak Finder: point the camera at the mountains and every summit is labelled with name, height and distance, computed offline on your iPhone; or switch to a rendered 3D panorama • 3D terrain & fly-over: your route draped on a 3D model of the mountains (satellite online, shaded relief offline); fly along it and export a video to share • Lock Screen & Dynamic Island: while you follow a route, a Live Activity shows distance to go, climb left, arrival time and progress • Outcrop camera: aim at a rock face, even out of reach, and read strike and dip in AR, aligned to true north; three-point mode; saved to your structural measurements • LiDAR outcrop scan (iPhone Pro models with LiDAR): a true-scale 3D model coloured by dip direction; tap anywhere for strike and dip, measure distances, export OBJ • Anomaly surface: lab assays or detector finds become a continuous colour anomaly map with contours; the strongest highs marked as targets A, B, C; can be draped on 3D terrain OFFLINE MAPS & TRAILS • One tap saves the framed area: vector map, elevation, peaks, huts, water and the path network • Routes that follow real trails, even offline: walking or mountain-path mode with distance and ascent • Follow a route with off-route alerts, distance left, climb left and arrival time • Slope and avalanche-angle shading, hillshade, contours and waymarked hiking trails MOUNTAINS & OUTDOORS • Barometric altimeter, storm warning, turnaround time and TracBack • Mountain weather forecast for your altitude, readable offline • Slope meter, avalanche bulletin link, SOS screen with your position to share MINERAL EXPLORATION & GEOLOGY • Samples with type, lithology, mineralization, photos and printable QR labels • Geology compass: strike and dip from the phone on the outcrop, stereonet and rose diagram • Licence areas from KML, GeoJSON, shapefile or corner coordinates, with sampling grids • Traverses with stations, downhole logs, lab assay import and colour-coded anomaly maps • Detector and panning finds with weight; geology map layer REPORTS & PLANNING • Field report PDF: area map, samples with coordinates and assays, structural measurements and photos, ready to send from the field • Cross section: draw a line and read the terrain profile with the nearby samples and apparent dips projected onto it • Tour planner: chain your waypoints along real paths and see distance, climb, walking time and whether you are back before sunset • Sun and shadow on the 3D terrain by the hour, and one tap to turn a straight bearing into a route that follows the trail DRAW ON THE MAP • Lines, polygons, freehand, circles, arrows and labels, with colours and layers • Distances and areas as you draw; turn any line into a route; GPX and KML export COORDINATES FOR THE FIELD • MGRS/USNG, UTM, TM 3° (Turkey), lat/lon and OSNG on 13 datums including ED50 • Resection, dead reckoning, grid conversion and a live grid on the map SHARE & SYNC • Share one project file with your team and merge their samples and drawings • GPX, KML and CSV import and export; QR sharing with no network; widgets, Siri and 17 languages PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking — your data stays on your iPhone. One purchase, no subscriptions and no in-app purchases. Prospect, dig and use metal detectors only where you hold a licence or permit. Weather data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0. Alpingo is a navigation aid, not a certified navigation device, and is not affiliated with any armed forces or government agency. Always carry a paper map and compass. Continued use of GPS in the background can decrease battery life. Terms of Use: https://gepgo.com/milgps/en/terms/
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