Stay on the right path with the Windows Phone app Maaloo Outdoor

Maaloo Outdoors

Maaloo Outdoor is a feature rich Windows Phone app designed for hiking, biking, skiing, and any other outdoor activity where you want to keep track with where you lot are, where you've been and where yous want to get.

The app will record your tracks, map them out, navigate to points of interest and supports import/export to Dropbox or OneDrive accounts. Maaloo Outdoor is a clean looking app and integrates with you lot are here maps for offline utilise. Maaloo Outdoor hopes to join the ranks of other Windows Phone outdoor tracking/mapping apps such every bit Outdoor Navigation and makes a squeamish first impression. If you lot are in the market for an outdoor mapping app, information technology is definitely worth a wait.

Maaloo Outdoor's main pages has tile options to view the map, monitor your location, view your favorite POI's, offset recording tracks, view your tracks, search for GPSies.com locations or addresses, view any nearby tracks and admission a host of settings.

Maaloo Outdoors Main Pages and Map View

Monitoring features include GPS coordinates and a virtual compass. Settings cover your full general system settings that include theme, language, units of measurements and energy options; Proximity settings for different distances to target; Recording options that include minimum altitude between track points, auto save features and more; and Online settings for search radius and maximum number of results.

Maaloo Outdoor Settings

The map view with Maaloo Outdoor has your tracking stats running beyond the top of the map that includes your speed, time and GPS accuracy. Tapping the map will bring up a host of options including centering the map on your position, zoom controls, control buttons to view your favorite POI's, tracks, monitoring pages and choose the map layers.

Maaloo Outdoor Layers

Map layers include Waypoint options that include online services such every bit GPSies Tracks and Panoramio, as well equally imported waypoints and favorite points. Your mapping layers include online resources such equally Hither vector road map, OpenStreetMaps (hiking, road, mountain biking) and offline options provided by Maaloo or imported from your Dropbox or OneDrive accounts.

Online resource can exist downloaded to your Windows Phone for offline utilise with the option to only download the portions or area of the map y'all need.

Maaloo Outdoor

As far equally route tracking is concerned, beginning your recording is as simple as tapping the record button off the main page of Maaloo. Yous can suspension, restart and end your tracks from the map view or main pages.

Routes can be created for pedestrian, wheel or auto (requires net) through Maaloo's search characteristic or by tapping on the map on the destination point. Borer a point on the map will create a pop-upwardly window that will show the altitude to that bespeak and options create a route.

Overall Impressions

Maaloo Outdoor is an impressive Windows Phone mapping app. Navigation around the app does accept a little time to go used to but one time you become the hang of things, Maaloo can be rather user-friendly. There is an abundance of features for map viewing, runway management, map management and overall advent. It is definitely an app that the more than y'all use information technology, the more you notice.

Map sensitivity to touch may exist the only downside to Maaloo that I could discover. I don't think it is a deal billow because of the inconsistency merely at that place were times that taps to marking a way signal registered as a double tap to zoom. All of which makes me wonder if tap/hold would take been a better method to mark a manner indicate.

Another effect others raise in the Windows Phone Store reviews is that Maaloo doesn't back up Google Maps. That seems to be more of a personal preference and not an consequence from my point of view (Hither maps works just fine). However, if you are a heavy Google Maps user, I can see where this could be a bone of contention.

All in all, Maaloo Outdoor is a worthy option to consider if you are looking for an outdoor mapping app for your Windows Phone. Maaloo scores a 4.5 Star rating in the Windows Phone Store, which isn't as well far off rails.