Balise - Topo Maps & GPX
iOS app by Magenta Creations. Navigation · Magenta Creations
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- 0 / 5
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- 0
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 1.1.0
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-09
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The official national surveys on your iPhone: USGS, the IGN map of France, swisstopo and IGN España, with your own routes drawn over them. Balise is one app for Mac and iPhone. Plan on the large screen, and with Pro your library is already on the phone at the trailhead, synced through your own iCloud. One Pro purchase covers both platforms. In English and French. UNITED STATES: FIVE USGS LAYERS US Topo, Imagery Topo, NAIP, 3DEP shaded relief and NHD hydrography, all public domain. FRANCE: TEN IGN ENTRIES • Plan IGN — the reference map, down to 1:5,000 • Aerial photography — BD ORTHO®, 20 cm • Aerial photography through time — seven editions on one slider: a path clear in 1965 and under canopy by 2023 is a path no longer there • Slope shading — above 30°, from RGE ALTI® • Forest cover — BD Forêt® v2, dominant species • Cadastral parcels — PCI Express • Place names — BD TOPO® toponyms, with no basemap under them • Forest rescue points — the posts French firefighters ask for • Historic sheets — état-major (1820-1866) and SCAN 50 (1950) SWITZERLAND AND SPAIN Five swisstopo layers: the Landeskarte to 1:10,000, a grey edition for reading overlays against, SWISSIMAGE at 10 cm, swissALTI3D relief and the surveyed hiking network. Two from IGN España: the Mapa Topográfico Nacional and PNOA orthophotography. Which country you are in is read from the map against real borders. A country's maps are offered as soon as its ground is on screen, before you have panned fully into it. A STACK YOU DRIVE Layers stack over Apple's basemap, satellite or hybrid, or over a blank floor that makes slope shading readable alone. Every layer has its own opacity. Hide one with the eye and it keeps its slot rather than making you rebuild the stack. Reorder from a layer's own menu. WHERE YOU ARE The locate button steps through off, follow, and follow with heading, so the map turns to face the way you are walking. Pan the map and following stops, the way Maps does it. Your position is drawn and nothing more, never recorded or sent. YOUR TRACKS • Open GPX from Files, a share sheet or a mail attachment, several at once • An elevation profile you scrub with a finger, the point marked on the map as you move • Distance, ascent, descent, elevation range, duration, in metric or imperial • Export GPX 1.1 to Files, crediting every visible source • The eight-colour track palette, honoured on import and export BALISE PRO, A ONE-TIME UNLOCK • Draw a route with your finger, each leg snapped to the real path network, with a toggle for a straight segment • A walking time from Tobler's hiking function, integrated over the climb rather than a flat average speed • Historic monuments: 44,310 protected buildings, drawn with no network • Petites Cités de Caractère: 207 labelled small towns • Huts, cabins and water points from refuges.info, including those marked closed Snapping and the overlays are French; elsewhere Pro unlocks drawing without snapping. Not a subscription: buy it on either p
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