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How to use GPS tracks for your walk Back to News
Thursday 10th October | Posted by On Foot Staff
On Foot Holidays Companion App
By far the best way to use GPS (global positioning system) for navigating on your holiday is through our bespoke app, which combines GPS mapping with our route notes in an easy-to-use format. It will even ping to let you know if you’ve gone off track, and it is an especially reassuring companion when walking alone*.
The app is free, and will contain all the details of your personal itinerary and lots more background information, allowing you to travel paper and plastic free if you wish.
Find out more about the On Foot Holidays Companion app
Using GPS tracks on other apps
If you prefer to use a different system, we can provide GPS tracks on request, to be used alongside our printed route notes. A GPS app can be downloaded to your mobile phone very cheaply. We’ll send you a file to download with all the routes and accommodations marked on it for your holiday.
We’ve drawn up a guide to using GPS, and some video instructions to help you through the process if using AlpineQuest for Android. We recommend PocketEarth for iPhone users:
How to use On Foot’s GPS files on iPhone or Android (pdf download)
Watch our video for using AlpineQuest GPS app for Android phones here
There are guides to using PocketEarth available online (search on YouTube).
For advice or help setting up your GPS app, please give us a call on +44 (0)1722 322652.
*We insist that lone walkers have GPS for safety purposes on some of our routes, either in the On Foot Holidays Companion app or a separate GPS app (see the ‘Solo walking’ tab on our FAQs page).
