How-To
Guides
33 short, specific answers to the things people actually ask — each one written against what the app really does.
Turn on sync so your tracks aren't only on the phone
Turn on cloud sync in NavGPS to back up every recorded track to navgps.app, reach them from a browser, and unlock sharing, Family Circle and the Trail Library.
Sign in to navgps.app from a browser
View your NavGPS tracks on a full screen at navgps.app — map, elevation profile and playback — by approving a six-digit code from the app.
Set up a Family Circle
Share live location with people you approve in NavGPS, on the same map you navigate with. No monthly fee, and nothing is shared until the owner approves the member.
See where everyone is without opening the app
Add the NavGPS Family Circle widget to your iPhone home screen to see up to six people, the town each one is in, and how long ago they were there.
Send a route to one person or a whole group
Share a recorded NavGPS track with a group or an individual, or publish it to the public Trail Library for anyone to download.
See everyone's vehicle for the length of one ride
Set up a NavGPS convoy so everyone on a group run sees each other on the same map, without the always-on sharing of a Family Circle.
Download maps for where you're going
Download a map area in NavGPS so topo, satellite and routing keep working with no cell signal. Pick the area, pick the layers, see the size before you commit.
Plan a route before you leave the driveway
Draw a route on the map in NavGPS, save it as a track, download the maps that cover it, and follow it when you get there.
Download a place pack for where you're going
Install an offline place pack in NavGPS to search for fuel, food, lodging and camping with no cell signal.
Bring in your own charts and maps
Import your own map file into NavGPS — a nautical chart, a survey map, a hunting unit map — and use it as a base map offline.
Find out whether your signal gets through
Use the NavGPS radio planner to read the terrain between you and a target and see whether a GMRS, VHF or UHF signal has a clear path.
Seven days of highs and lows for the nearest station
Read NOAA tide predictions in NavGPS for the station nearest your position or the map centre, with the last fetch kept for when you're offline.
Go To, and following a track
Use Go To in NavGPS for distance, bearing and ETA to a waypoint, or follow a recorded track with off-route distance and distance remaining.
Create a point from a bearing and a distance
Plot a waypoint in NavGPS at a true bearing and distance from your position, another waypoint or the map centre — for geocaching offsets and hazard plotting.
Distance and bearing between two points
Measure the distance and bearing between any two points on the NavGPS map without saving anything.
Record where you went, with photos
Record a GPS track in NavGPS with distance, elevation, moving time and photos pinned to where you took them.
Bring in routes from anywhere else
Import GPX, KML and KMZ routes and waypoints into NavGPS from Google Earth, a land agency download, another GPS app, or a friend.
Hear your distance and pace without looking
Have NavGPS speak distance, elapsed time and pace while you record, on a time or distance cadence.
Have the app call for help if you can't
NavGPS watches for an impact while you record a drive, asks if you're all right, and alerts your Family Circle if nobody answers.
Be told when something is getting hot
Set threshold alarms on any NavGPS engine reading — transmission temperature, coolant, RPM — and be warned by banner and voice while you drive.
See how steep the ground is before you're on it
Turn on slope angle shading in NavGPS to colour terrain by steepness, using the standard colours every avalanche and backcountry map uses.
Look at the ground in three dimensions
Open the NavGPS 3D terrain explorer to drape satellite or topographic maps over real elevation, with adjustable exaggeration.
Connect the OBDLink MX+ and read live engine data
Pair an OBDLink MX+ with your iPhone and read RPM, coolant, transmission temperature and fuel economy in NavGPS, logged against your track.
Arrange the gauges you actually watch
Choose which engine parameters appear in NavGPS, what order they sit in, whether each is a digital readout or a dial, and which ones get the full width.
Get MPG and distance-to-empty that mean something
Enter your tank size and engine details in NavGPS so live fuel economy, fuel burned, cost and distance to empty are calculated for your vehicle.
Set actual miles so OBD2 speed matches reality
Oversized tires make your speedometer and trip meter read low. NavGPS measures how far your vehicle thinks you went, you enter how far you really went, and it corrects every reading from then on.
Find out what the light means
Read diagnostic trouble codes from your vehicle in NavGPS over an OBDLink MX+, see what they mean, and clear them.
Measure acceleration properly
Time acceleration runs in NavGPS using your vehicle's own speed sensor rather than GPS, and keep your best results.
Read something the standard gauges don't cover
Add your own engine readings to NavGPS — boost, oil temperature, individual fuel trims — using a code and a sum from a forum for your vehicle.
See what's coming before it arrives
Read the National Weather Service forecast for where you are in NavGPS, and watch an animated weather radar loop on the map.
Map the ALPR cameras along your route
Download and display mapped automated licence plate reader locations in NavGPS, stored offline, from OpenStreetMap's public data.
Choose which icons line the left edge
Show, hide and reorder the tools in the NavGPS map's left-hand column so the ones you use are the ones you see.
Decimal, DMS, UTM or MGRS
Switch NavGPS between decimal degrees, degrees and minutes, degrees-minutes-seconds, UTM and MGRS.
Turn on sync so your tracks aren't only on the phone
Turn on cloud sync in NavGPS to back up every recorded track to navgps.app, reach them from a browser, and unlock sharing, Family Circle and the Trail Library.
Sign in to navgps.app from a browser
View your NavGPS tracks on a full screen at navgps.app — map, elevation profile and playback — by approving a six-digit code from the app.
Set up a Family Circle
Share live location with people you approve in NavGPS, on the same map you navigate with. No monthly fee, and nothing is shared until the owner approves the member.
See where everyone is without opening the app
Add the NavGPS Family Circle widget to your iPhone home screen to see up to six people, the town each one is in, and how long ago they were there.
Send a route to one person or a whole group
Share a recorded NavGPS track with a group or an individual, or publish it to the public Trail Library for anyone to download.
See everyone's vehicle for the length of one ride
Set up a NavGPS convoy so everyone on a group run sees each other on the same map, without the always-on sharing of a Family Circle.
Have the app call for help if you can't
NavGPS watches for an impact while you record a drive, asks if you're all right, and alerts your Family Circle if nobody answers.
Be told when something is getting hot
Set threshold alarms on any NavGPS engine reading — transmission temperature, coolant, RPM — and be warned by banner and voice while you drive.
Find out whether your signal gets through
Use the NavGPS radio planner to read the terrain between you and a target and see whether a GMRS, VHF or UHF signal has a clear path.
Plan a route before you leave the driveway
Draw a route on the map in NavGPS, save it as a track, download the maps that cover it, and follow it when you get there.
Seven days of highs and lows for the nearest station
Read NOAA tide predictions in NavGPS for the station nearest your position or the map centre, with the last fetch kept for when you're offline.
Go To, and following a track
Use Go To in NavGPS for distance, bearing and ETA to a waypoint, or follow a recorded track with off-route distance and distance remaining.
Create a point from a bearing and a distance
Plot a waypoint in NavGPS at a true bearing and distance from your position, another waypoint or the map centre — for geocaching offsets and hazard plotting.
Distance and bearing between two points
Measure the distance and bearing between any two points on the NavGPS map without saving anything.
Download maps for where you're going
Download a map area in NavGPS so topo, satellite and routing keep working with no cell signal. Pick the area, pick the layers, see the size before you commit.
Download a place pack for where you're going
Install an offline place pack in NavGPS to search for fuel, food, lodging and camping with no cell signal.
Bring in your own charts and maps
Import your own map file into NavGPS — a nautical chart, a survey map, a hunting unit map — and use it as a base map offline.
Record where you went, with photos
Record a GPS track in NavGPS with distance, elevation, moving time and photos pinned to where you took them.
Bring in routes from anywhere else
Import GPX, KML and KMZ routes and waypoints into NavGPS from Google Earth, a land agency download, another GPS app, or a friend.
Hear your distance and pace without looking
Have NavGPS speak distance, elapsed time and pace while you record, on a time or distance cadence.
See what's coming before it arrives
Read the National Weather Service forecast for where you are in NavGPS, and watch an animated weather radar loop on the map.
Map the ALPR cameras along your route
Download and display mapped automated licence plate reader locations in NavGPS, stored offline, from OpenStreetMap's public data.
Choose which icons line the left edge
Show, hide and reorder the tools in the NavGPS map's left-hand column so the ones you use are the ones you see.
Decimal, DMS, UTM or MGRS
Switch NavGPS between decimal degrees, degrees and minutes, degrees-minutes-seconds, UTM and MGRS.
See how steep the ground is before you're on it
Turn on slope angle shading in NavGPS to colour terrain by steepness, using the standard colours every avalanche and backcountry map uses.
Look at the ground in three dimensions
Open the NavGPS 3D terrain explorer to drape satellite or topographic maps over real elevation, with adjustable exaggeration.
Connect the OBDLink MX+ and read live engine data
Pair an OBDLink MX+ with your iPhone and read RPM, coolant, transmission temperature and fuel economy in NavGPS, logged against your track.
Arrange the gauges you actually watch
Choose which engine parameters appear in NavGPS, what order they sit in, whether each is a digital readout or a dial, and which ones get the full width.
Get MPG and distance-to-empty that mean something
Enter your tank size and engine details in NavGPS so live fuel economy, fuel burned, cost and distance to empty are calculated for your vehicle.
Set actual miles so OBD2 speed matches reality
Oversized tires make your speedometer and trip meter read low. NavGPS measures how far your vehicle thinks you went, you enter how far you really went, and it corrects every reading from then on.
Find out what the light means
Read diagnostic trouble codes from your vehicle in NavGPS over an OBDLink MX+, see what they mean, and clear them.
Measure acceleration properly
Time acceleration runs in NavGPS using your vehicle's own speed sensor rather than GPS, and keep your best results.
Read something the standard gauges don't cover
Add your own engine readings to NavGPS — boost, oil temperature, individual fuel trims — using a code and a sum from a forum for your vehicle.
Download maps for where you're going
Download a map area in NavGPS so topo, satellite and routing keep working with no cell signal. Pick the area, pick the layers, see the size before you commit.
Plan a route before you leave the driveway
Draw a route on the map in NavGPS, save it as a track, download the maps that cover it, and follow it when you get there.
Download a place pack for where you're going
Install an offline place pack in NavGPS to search for fuel, food, lodging and camping with no cell signal.
Bring in your own charts and maps
Import your own map file into NavGPS — a nautical chart, a survey map, a hunting unit map — and use it as a base map offline.
Turn on sync so your tracks aren't only on the phone
Turn on cloud sync in NavGPS to back up every recorded track to navgps.app, reach them from a browser, and unlock sharing, Family Circle and the Trail Library.
Sign in to navgps.app from a browser
View your NavGPS tracks on a full screen at navgps.app — map, elevation profile and playback — by approving a six-digit code from the app.
Set up a Family Circle
Share live location with people you approve in NavGPS, on the same map you navigate with. No monthly fee, and nothing is shared until the owner approves the member.
See where everyone is without opening the app
Add the NavGPS Family Circle widget to your iPhone home screen to see up to six people, the town each one is in, and how long ago they were there.
Send a route to one person or a whole group
Share a recorded NavGPS track with a group or an individual, or publish it to the public Trail Library for anyone to download.
See everyone's vehicle for the length of one ride
Set up a NavGPS convoy so everyone on a group run sees each other on the same map, without the always-on sharing of a Family Circle.
Connect the OBDLink MX+ and read live engine data
Pair an OBDLink MX+ with your iPhone and read RPM, coolant, transmission temperature and fuel economy in NavGPS, logged against your track.
Arrange the gauges you actually watch
Choose which engine parameters appear in NavGPS, what order they sit in, whether each is a digital readout or a dial, and which ones get the full width.
Get MPG and distance-to-empty that mean something
Enter your tank size and engine details in NavGPS so live fuel economy, fuel burned, cost and distance to empty are calculated for your vehicle.
Set actual miles so OBD2 speed matches reality
Oversized tires make your speedometer and trip meter read low. NavGPS measures how far your vehicle thinks you went, you enter how far you really went, and it corrects every reading from then on.
Be told when something is getting hot
Set threshold alarms on any NavGPS engine reading — transmission temperature, coolant, RPM — and be warned by banner and voice while you drive.
Find out what the light means
Read diagnostic trouble codes from your vehicle in NavGPS over an OBDLink MX+, see what they mean, and clear them.
Measure acceleration properly
Time acceleration runs in NavGPS using your vehicle's own speed sensor rather than GPS, and keep your best results.
Read something the standard gauges don't cover
Add your own engine readings to NavGPS — boost, oil temperature, individual fuel trims — using a code and a sum from a forum for your vehicle.
Find out whether your signal gets through
Use the NavGPS radio planner to read the terrain between you and a target and see whether a GMRS, VHF or UHF signal has a clear path.
See how steep the ground is before you're on it
Turn on slope angle shading in NavGPS to colour terrain by steepness, using the standard colours every avalanche and backcountry map uses.
Look at the ground in three dimensions
Open the NavGPS 3D terrain explorer to drape satellite or topographic maps over real elevation, with adjustable exaggeration.
Seven days of highs and lows for the nearest station
Read NOAA tide predictions in NavGPS for the station nearest your position or the map centre, with the last fetch kept for when you're offline.
Go To, and following a track
Use Go To in NavGPS for distance, bearing and ETA to a waypoint, or follow a recorded track with off-route distance and distance remaining.
Create a point from a bearing and a distance
Plot a waypoint in NavGPS at a true bearing and distance from your position, another waypoint or the map centre — for geocaching offsets and hazard plotting.
Distance and bearing between two points
Measure the distance and bearing between any two points on the NavGPS map without saving anything.
Record where you went, with photos
Record a GPS track in NavGPS with distance, elevation, moving time and photos pinned to where you took them.
Bring in routes from anywhere else
Import GPX, KML and KMZ routes and waypoints into NavGPS from Google Earth, a land agency download, another GPS app, or a friend.
Hear your distance and pace without looking
Have NavGPS speak distance, elapsed time and pace while you record, on a time or distance cadence.
Have the app call for help if you can't
NavGPS watches for an impact while you record a drive, asks if you're all right, and alerts your Family Circle if nobody answers.
See what's coming before it arrives
Read the National Weather Service forecast for where you are in NavGPS, and watch an animated weather radar loop on the map.
Map the ALPR cameras along your route
Download and display mapped automated licence plate reader locations in NavGPS, stored offline, from OpenStreetMap's public data.
Choose which icons line the left edge
Show, hide and reorder the tools in the NavGPS map's left-hand column so the ones you use are the ones you see.
Decimal, DMS, UTM or MGRS
Switch NavGPS between decimal degrees, degrees and minutes, degrees-minutes-seconds, UTM and MGRS.
Turn on sync so your tracks aren't only on the phone
Turn on cloud sync in NavGPS to back up every recorded track to navgps.app, reach them from a browser, and unlock sharing, Family Circle and the Trail Library.
Sign in to navgps.app from a browser
View your NavGPS tracks on a full screen at navgps.app — map, elevation profile and playback — by approving a six-digit code from the app.
Set up a Family Circle
Share live location with people you approve in NavGPS, on the same map you navigate with. No monthly fee, and nothing is shared until the owner approves the member.
See where everyone is without opening the app
Add the NavGPS Family Circle widget to your iPhone home screen to see up to six people, the town each one is in, and how long ago they were there.
Send a route to one person or a whole group
Share a recorded NavGPS track with a group or an individual, or publish it to the public Trail Library for anyone to download.
See everyone's vehicle for the length of one ride
Set up a NavGPS convoy so everyone on a group run sees each other on the same map, without the always-on sharing of a Family Circle.
Map the ALPR cameras along your route
Download and display mapped automated licence plate reader locations in NavGPS, stored offline, from OpenStreetMap's public data.
Find out whether your signal gets through
Use the NavGPS radio planner to read the terrain between you and a target and see whether a GMRS, VHF or UHF signal has a clear path.
Plan a route before you leave the driveway
Draw a route on the map in NavGPS, save it as a track, download the maps that cover it, and follow it when you get there.
Seven days of highs and lows for the nearest station
Read NOAA tide predictions in NavGPS for the station nearest your position or the map centre, with the last fetch kept for when you're offline.
Go To, and following a track
Use Go To in NavGPS for distance, bearing and ETA to a waypoint, or follow a recorded track with off-route distance and distance remaining.
Create a point from a bearing and a distance
Plot a waypoint in NavGPS at a true bearing and distance from your position, another waypoint or the map centre — for geocaching offsets and hazard plotting.
Distance and bearing between two points
Measure the distance and bearing between any two points on the NavGPS map without saving anything.
Have the app call for help if you can't
NavGPS watches for an impact while you record a drive, asks if you're all right, and alerts your Family Circle if nobody answers.
Be told when something is getting hot
Set threshold alarms on any NavGPS engine reading — transmission temperature, coolant, RPM — and be warned by banner and voice while you drive.
Connect the OBDLink MX+ and read live engine data
Pair an OBDLink MX+ with your iPhone and read RPM, coolant, transmission temperature and fuel economy in NavGPS, logged against your track.
Arrange the gauges you actually watch
Choose which engine parameters appear in NavGPS, what order they sit in, whether each is a digital readout or a dial, and which ones get the full width.
Get MPG and distance-to-empty that mean something
Enter your tank size and engine details in NavGPS so live fuel economy, fuel burned, cost and distance to empty are calculated for your vehicle.
Set actual miles so OBD2 speed matches reality
Oversized tires make your speedometer and trip meter read low. NavGPS measures how far your vehicle thinks you went, you enter how far you really went, and it corrects every reading from then on.
Find out what the light means
Read diagnostic trouble codes from your vehicle in NavGPS over an OBDLink MX+, see what they mean, and clear them.
Measure acceleration properly
Time acceleration runs in NavGPS using your vehicle's own speed sensor rather than GPS, and keep your best results.
Read something the standard gauges don't cover
Add your own engine readings to NavGPS — boost, oil temperature, individual fuel trims — using a code and a sum from a forum for your vehicle.
See what's coming before it arrives
Read the National Weather Service forecast for where you are in NavGPS, and watch an animated weather radar loop on the map.
Record where you went, with photos
Record a GPS track in NavGPS with distance, elevation, moving time and photos pinned to where you took them.
Bring in routes from anywhere else
Import GPX, KML and KMZ routes and waypoints into NavGPS from Google Earth, a land agency download, another GPS app, or a friend.
Hear your distance and pace without looking
Have NavGPS speak distance, elapsed time and pace while you record, on a time or distance cadence.
Choose which icons line the left edge
Show, hide and reorder the tools in the NavGPS map's left-hand column so the ones you use are the ones you see.
Decimal, DMS, UTM or MGRS
Switch NavGPS between decimal degrees, degrees and minutes, degrees-minutes-seconds, UTM and MGRS.
Bring in your own charts and maps
Import your own map file into NavGPS — a nautical chart, a survey map, a hunting unit map — and use it as a base map offline.
Download maps for where you're going
Download a map area in NavGPS so topo, satellite and routing keep working with no cell signal. Pick the area, pick the layers, see the size before you commit.
Download a place pack for where you're going
Install an offline place pack in NavGPS to search for fuel, food, lodging and camping with no cell signal.
See how steep the ground is before you're on it
Turn on slope angle shading in NavGPS to colour terrain by steepness, using the standard colours every avalanche and backcountry map uses.
Look at the ground in three dimensions
Open the NavGPS 3D terrain explorer to drape satellite or topographic maps over real elevation, with adjustable exaggeration.
Turn on sync so your tracks aren't only on the phone
Turn on cloud sync in NavGPS to back up every recorded track to navgps.app, reach them from a browser, and unlock sharing, Family Circle and the Trail Library.
Sign in to navgps.app from a browser
View your NavGPS tracks on a full screen at navgps.app — map, elevation profile and playback — by approving a six-digit code from the app.
Set up a Family Circle
Share live location with people you approve in NavGPS, on the same map you navigate with. No monthly fee, and nothing is shared until the owner approves the member.
See where everyone is without opening the app
Add the NavGPS Family Circle widget to your iPhone home screen to see up to six people, the town each one is in, and how long ago they were there.
Send a route to one person or a whole group
Share a recorded NavGPS track with a group or an individual, or publish it to the public Trail Library for anyone to download.
See everyone's vehicle for the length of one ride
Set up a NavGPS convoy so everyone on a group run sees each other on the same map, without the always-on sharing of a Family Circle.
Find out whether your signal gets through
Use the NavGPS radio planner to read the terrain between you and a target and see whether a GMRS, VHF or UHF signal has a clear path.
Plan a route before you leave the driveway
Draw a route on the map in NavGPS, save it as a track, download the maps that cover it, and follow it when you get there.
Seven days of highs and lows for the nearest station
Read NOAA tide predictions in NavGPS for the station nearest your position or the map centre, with the last fetch kept for when you're offline.
Go To, and following a track
Use Go To in NavGPS for distance, bearing and ETA to a waypoint, or follow a recorded track with off-route distance and distance remaining.
Create a point from a bearing and a distance
Plot a waypoint in NavGPS at a true bearing and distance from your position, another waypoint or the map centre — for geocaching offsets and hazard plotting.
Distance and bearing between two points
Measure the distance and bearing between any two points on the NavGPS map without saving anything.
Have the app call for help if you can't
NavGPS watches for an impact while you record a drive, asks if you're all right, and alerts your Family Circle if nobody answers.
Be told when something is getting hot
Set threshold alarms on any NavGPS engine reading — transmission temperature, coolant, RPM — and be warned by banner and voice while you drive.
Connect the OBDLink MX+ and read live engine data
Pair an OBDLink MX+ with your iPhone and read RPM, coolant, transmission temperature and fuel economy in NavGPS, logged against your track.
Arrange the gauges you actually watch
Choose which engine parameters appear in NavGPS, what order they sit in, whether each is a digital readout or a dial, and which ones get the full width.
Get MPG and distance-to-empty that mean something
Enter your tank size and engine details in NavGPS so live fuel economy, fuel burned, cost and distance to empty are calculated for your vehicle.
Set actual miles so OBD2 speed matches reality
Oversized tires make your speedometer and trip meter read low. NavGPS measures how far your vehicle thinks you went, you enter how far you really went, and it corrects every reading from then on.
Find out what the light means
Read diagnostic trouble codes from your vehicle in NavGPS over an OBDLink MX+, see what they mean, and clear them.
Measure acceleration properly
Time acceleration runs in NavGPS using your vehicle's own speed sensor rather than GPS, and keep your best results.
Read something the standard gauges don't cover
Add your own engine readings to NavGPS — boost, oil temperature, individual fuel trims — using a code and a sum from a forum for your vehicle.
See what's coming before it arrives
Read the National Weather Service forecast for where you are in NavGPS, and watch an animated weather radar loop on the map.
Record where you went, with photos
Record a GPS track in NavGPS with distance, elevation, moving time and photos pinned to where you took them.
Bring in routes from anywhere else
Import GPX, KML and KMZ routes and waypoints into NavGPS from Google Earth, a land agency download, another GPS app, or a friend.
Hear your distance and pace without looking
Have NavGPS speak distance, elapsed time and pace while you record, on a time or distance cadence.
Download maps for where you're going
Download a map area in NavGPS so topo, satellite and routing keep working with no cell signal. Pick the area, pick the layers, see the size before you commit.
Download a place pack for where you're going
Install an offline place pack in NavGPS to search for fuel, food, lodging and camping with no cell signal.
Bring in your own charts and maps
Import your own map file into NavGPS — a nautical chart, a survey map, a hunting unit map — and use it as a base map offline.
Map the ALPR cameras along your route
Download and display mapped automated licence plate reader locations in NavGPS, stored offline, from OpenStreetMap's public data.
Choose which icons line the left edge
Show, hide and reorder the tools in the NavGPS map's left-hand column so the ones you use are the ones you see.
Decimal, DMS, UTM or MGRS
Switch NavGPS between decimal degrees, degrees and minutes, degrees-minutes-seconds, UTM and MGRS.
See how steep the ground is before you're on it
Turn on slope angle shading in NavGPS to colour terrain by steepness, using the standard colours every avalanche and backcountry map uses.
Look at the ground in three dimensions
Open the NavGPS 3D terrain explorer to drape satellite or topographic maps over real elevation, with adjustable exaggeration.
Download maps for where you're going
Download a map area in NavGPS so topo, satellite and routing keep working with no cell signal. Pick the area, pick the layers, see the size before you commit.
Plan a route before you leave the driveway
Draw a route on the map in NavGPS, save it as a track, download the maps that cover it, and follow it when you get there.
Download a place pack for where you're going
Install an offline place pack in NavGPS to search for fuel, food, lodging and camping with no cell signal.
Bring in your own charts and maps
Import your own map file into NavGPS — a nautical chart, a survey map, a hunting unit map — and use it as a base map offline.
Find out whether your signal gets through
Use the NavGPS radio planner to read the terrain between you and a target and see whether a GMRS, VHF or UHF signal has a clear path.
See how steep the ground is before you're on it
Turn on slope angle shading in NavGPS to colour terrain by steepness, using the standard colours every avalanche and backcountry map uses.
Look at the ground in three dimensions
Open the NavGPS 3D terrain explorer to drape satellite or topographic maps over real elevation, with adjustable exaggeration.
Seven days of highs and lows for the nearest station
Read NOAA tide predictions in NavGPS for the station nearest your position or the map centre, with the last fetch kept for when you're offline.
Go To, and following a track
Use Go To in NavGPS for distance, bearing and ETA to a waypoint, or follow a recorded track with off-route distance and distance remaining.
Create a point from a bearing and a distance
Plot a waypoint in NavGPS at a true bearing and distance from your position, another waypoint or the map centre — for geocaching offsets and hazard plotting.
Distance and bearing between two points
Measure the distance and bearing between any two points on the NavGPS map without saving anything.
Record where you went, with photos
Record a GPS track in NavGPS with distance, elevation, moving time and photos pinned to where you took them.
Bring in routes from anywhere else
Import GPX, KML and KMZ routes and waypoints into NavGPS from Google Earth, a land agency download, another GPS app, or a friend.
Hear your distance and pace without looking
Have NavGPS speak distance, elapsed time and pace while you record, on a time or distance cadence.
Turn on sync so your tracks aren't only on the phone
Turn on cloud sync in NavGPS to back up every recorded track to navgps.app, reach them from a browser, and unlock sharing, Family Circle and the Trail Library.
Sign in to navgps.app from a browser
View your NavGPS tracks on a full screen at navgps.app — map, elevation profile and playback — by approving a six-digit code from the app.
Set up a Family Circle
Share live location with people you approve in NavGPS, on the same map you navigate with. No monthly fee, and nothing is shared until the owner approves the member.
See where everyone is without opening the app
Add the NavGPS Family Circle widget to your iPhone home screen to see up to six people, the town each one is in, and how long ago they were there.
Send a route to one person or a whole group
Share a recorded NavGPS track with a group or an individual, or publish it to the public Trail Library for anyone to download.
See everyone's vehicle for the length of one ride
Set up a NavGPS convoy so everyone on a group run sees each other on the same map, without the always-on sharing of a Family Circle.
Have the app call for help if you can't
NavGPS watches for an impact while you record a drive, asks if you're all right, and alerts your Family Circle if nobody answers.
Be told when something is getting hot
Set threshold alarms on any NavGPS engine reading — transmission temperature, coolant, RPM — and be warned by banner and voice while you drive.
See what's coming before it arrives
Read the National Weather Service forecast for where you are in NavGPS, and watch an animated weather radar loop on the map.
Map the ALPR cameras along your route
Download and display mapped automated licence plate reader locations in NavGPS, stored offline, from OpenStreetMap's public data.
Choose which icons line the left edge
Show, hide and reorder the tools in the NavGPS map's left-hand column so the ones you use are the ones you see.
Decimal, DMS, UTM or MGRS
Switch NavGPS between decimal degrees, degrees and minutes, degrees-minutes-seconds, UTM and MGRS.
Connect the OBDLink MX+ and read live engine data
Pair an OBDLink MX+ with your iPhone and read RPM, coolant, transmission temperature and fuel economy in NavGPS, logged against your track.
Arrange the gauges you actually watch
Choose which engine parameters appear in NavGPS, what order they sit in, whether each is a digital readout or a dial, and which ones get the full width.
Get MPG and distance-to-empty that mean something
Enter your tank size and engine details in NavGPS so live fuel economy, fuel burned, cost and distance to empty are calculated for your vehicle.
Set actual miles so OBD2 speed matches reality
Oversized tires make your speedometer and trip meter read low. NavGPS measures how far your vehicle thinks you went, you enter how far you really went, and it corrects every reading from then on.
Find out what the light means
Read diagnostic trouble codes from your vehicle in NavGPS over an OBDLink MX+, see what they mean, and clear them.
Measure acceleration properly
Time acceleration runs in NavGPS using your vehicle's own speed sensor rather than GPS, and keep your best results.
Read something the standard gauges don't cover
Add your own engine readings to NavGPS — boost, oil temperature, individual fuel trims — using a code and a sum from a forum for your vehicle.
Download maps for where you're going
Download a map area in NavGPS so topo, satellite and routing keep working with no cell signal. Pick the area, pick the layers, see the size before you commit.
Plan a route before you leave the driveway
Draw a route on the map in NavGPS, save it as a track, download the maps that cover it, and follow it when you get there.
Download a place pack for where you're going
Install an offline place pack in NavGPS to search for fuel, food, lodging and camping with no cell signal.
Bring in your own charts and maps
Import your own map file into NavGPS — a nautical chart, a survey map, a hunting unit map — and use it as a base map offline.
See what's coming before it arrives
Read the National Weather Service forecast for where you are in NavGPS, and watch an animated weather radar loop on the map.
Seven days of highs and lows for the nearest station
Read NOAA tide predictions in NavGPS for the station nearest your position or the map centre, with the last fetch kept for when you're offline.
Find out whether your signal gets through
Use the NavGPS radio planner to read the terrain between you and a target and see whether a GMRS, VHF or UHF signal has a clear path.
Go To, and following a track
Use Go To in NavGPS for distance, bearing and ETA to a waypoint, or follow a recorded track with off-route distance and distance remaining.
Create a point from a bearing and a distance
Plot a waypoint in NavGPS at a true bearing and distance from your position, another waypoint or the map centre — for geocaching offsets and hazard plotting.
Distance and bearing between two points
Measure the distance and bearing between any two points on the NavGPS map without saving anything.
Turn on sync so your tracks aren't only on the phone
Turn on cloud sync in NavGPS to back up every recorded track to navgps.app, reach them from a browser, and unlock sharing, Family Circle and the Trail Library.
Sign in to navgps.app from a browser
View your NavGPS tracks on a full screen at navgps.app — map, elevation profile and playback — by approving a six-digit code from the app.
Set up a Family Circle
Share live location with people you approve in NavGPS, on the same map you navigate with. No monthly fee, and nothing is shared until the owner approves the member.
See where everyone is without opening the app
Add the NavGPS Family Circle widget to your iPhone home screen to see up to six people, the town each one is in, and how long ago they were there.
Send a route to one person or a whole group
Share a recorded NavGPS track with a group or an individual, or publish it to the public Trail Library for anyone to download.
See everyone's vehicle for the length of one ride
Set up a NavGPS convoy so everyone on a group run sees each other on the same map, without the always-on sharing of a Family Circle.
Record where you went, with photos
Record a GPS track in NavGPS with distance, elevation, moving time and photos pinned to where you took them.
Bring in routes from anywhere else
Import GPX, KML and KMZ routes and waypoints into NavGPS from Google Earth, a land agency download, another GPS app, or a friend.
Hear your distance and pace without looking
Have NavGPS speak distance, elapsed time and pace while you record, on a time or distance cadence.
Have the app call for help if you can't
NavGPS watches for an impact while you record a drive, asks if you're all right, and alerts your Family Circle if nobody answers.
Be told when something is getting hot
Set threshold alarms on any NavGPS engine reading — transmission temperature, coolant, RPM — and be warned by banner and voice while you drive.
See how steep the ground is before you're on it
Turn on slope angle shading in NavGPS to colour terrain by steepness, using the standard colours every avalanche and backcountry map uses.
Look at the ground in three dimensions
Open the NavGPS 3D terrain explorer to drape satellite or topographic maps over real elevation, with adjustable exaggeration.
Map the ALPR cameras along your route
Download and display mapped automated licence plate reader locations in NavGPS, stored offline, from OpenStreetMap's public data.
Choose which icons line the left edge
Show, hide and reorder the tools in the NavGPS map's left-hand column so the ones you use are the ones you see.
Decimal, DMS, UTM or MGRS
Switch NavGPS between decimal degrees, degrees and minutes, degrees-minutes-seconds, UTM and MGRS.
Connect the OBDLink MX+ and read live engine data
Pair an OBDLink MX+ with your iPhone and read RPM, coolant, transmission temperature and fuel economy in NavGPS, logged against your track.
Arrange the gauges you actually watch
Choose which engine parameters appear in NavGPS, what order they sit in, whether each is a digital readout or a dial, and which ones get the full width.
Get MPG and distance-to-empty that mean something
Enter your tank size and engine details in NavGPS so live fuel economy, fuel burned, cost and distance to empty are calculated for your vehicle.
Set actual miles so OBD2 speed matches reality
Oversized tires make your speedometer and trip meter read low. NavGPS measures how far your vehicle thinks you went, you enter how far you really went, and it corrects every reading from then on.
Find out what the light means
Read diagnostic trouble codes from your vehicle in NavGPS over an OBDLink MX+, see what they mean, and clear them.
Measure acceleration properly
Time acceleration runs in NavGPS using your vehicle's own speed sensor rather than GPS, and keep your best results.
Read something the standard gauges don't cover
Add your own engine readings to NavGPS — boost, oil temperature, individual fuel trims — using a code and a sum from a forum for your vehicle.