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• ★ 2020-08-15
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About Custom Maps

Custom Maps makes it simple to make GPS maps from map images, and those maps can be used anywhere, even when you have no data signal for your Android device device (it works on both phones and tablets).

Custom Maps can use photos of paper maps or brochures, and images of maps posted at trailheads or at the entrances to amusement parks. It can also use .jpeg or .png pictures downloaded from the internet and screenshots of PDF maps.

All you have to do is choose 2 (or more) matching points that are common to both the map picture and Google Maps, and Custom Maps can then present your GPS space on the map. Data connection is needed at the time the map is calibrated (created).

As the map pictures are stored on the phone, Custom Maps works offline without data signal. This is useful if you go hiking in national or state parks, and it can support you avoid international roaming charges abroad.

Custom Maps can use almost any map image, including photos, as GPS maps so it can be a helpful map app when visiting zoos and amusement parks which typically post really big maps of the park layout at the entrance of the park. Just take a photo of the posted map, line it up with Google Maps, and you can see your space on the map photo wherever you are in the park.

Custom Maps can present the distance from your current space to a point on the map, so it can give you an idea how far various points are. This is especially useful for golfers who could make their own GPS maps for golf courses they play.

Custom Maps uses easy picture files for maps so you can add your own markup on the maps in a graphics tool (not included in Custom Maps) or draw entirely your own maps. Made maps can be shared using email from the application itself, or by hosting the map on a web server and posting QR codes for others to scan to trigger downloading of those maps.

Custom Maps supports displaying placemarks on the map (starting in version 1.3.0). Placemark editing is not supported in Custom Maps itself (will be supported in a future version), but placemarks can be added in Google Earth. To add placemarks to a map, copy the kmz map file from phone to desktop computer, and begin it with Google Earth. Make a folder in Google Earth containing the map overlay and add placemarks to the same folder. Then export the folder from Google Earth as kmz file, and copy back to phone.

NOTE: Custom Maps application does not come with any maps included. The support menu for the map listing includes a link to www.custommapsapp.com www service where you can download some sample maps to try. However, the best method to test Custom Maps is to take a photo of a paper map (or of an online map displayed on your computer screen) or download a map picture from the web to your device, and then use Custom Maps to make a GPS enabled map from it.

NOTE: On some devices, newly made maps don't present up in map list until the user returns back to map list from normal map display or after exiting and restarting the app. This seems to be an problem only with very few Android device versions on specific devices, in most versions newly made maps present up immediately after they are created.

NOTE: You can sign up to be a beta tester for Custom Maps at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.custommapsapp.android. Same page allows you also to leave beta testing. If you test out the beta version of the app, please send an email to custom-maps-users@googlegroups.com telling me what device and OS version you tried it on, and whether the beta version worked for you.

You can find more info about Custom Maps at the app web website http://www.custommapsapp.com/.

Custom Maps is an begin source project. Its source code can be found at https://github.com/markoteittinen/custom-maps

New Features: Bug fixes:<br>- Restores missing location arrow to devices running Android 6 (M) or earlier versions<br>- Prevents map image from turning upside down when zoomed out very quickly with &quot;tap-swipe&quot;<br>- Makes sure map image stays on screen even when zooming far out<br>- Improved initial license screen layout to make sure buttons stay visible on screen even on small phones

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