iPhone:What's Included?
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ViewRanger editions
ViewRanger for the iPhone is available from the Apple app store / iTunes. Three versions are available:
- Premium - includes 1000 credits of map and route credit, details below, allowing you to download detailed maps and routes. Also includes access to Open Street and Cycle Maps.
- Open - has access to Open Street and Cycle Maps. No premium map credit included, but can be purchased in-app.
- USA - includes access to unlimited topo mapping of the USA. Also includes 240 credits of map and route credit, details below, allowing you to download routes. Also includes access to Open Street and Cycle Maps. This edition only allows access to USA maps, plus Open and Bing maps.
You can purchase premium mapping top-ups in-app for all versions.
| Edition | Premium credit
included | Unlimited use
of Open maps | Access to all
features | Optionally buy
premium maps in-app | Transfer existing
maps and GPX via iTunes or wifi | Maps for 15 countries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium | Yes, 1000 credits | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Open Maps | No, buy in-app | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| USA | Yes, 240 credits | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No, USA only |
Mapping Included With Premium Version
When you run ViewRanger you'll be prompted to download an overview map for the country of your choice.
A full token's worth of credit is included with the Premium version of ViewRanger, which you can use to download tiles of detailed map or routes. The first time you ask to download a map tile or route, you'll be asked to confirm the allocation of your credit. You can choose between:
- 1000 credits for use on color maps and routes (coverage varies, details below), or
- 600 sq km of Norway 1:50000 scale colour mapping (24 tiles)
Mapping Included With USA Version
The USA edition comes with unlimited USA mapping.
Additionally 240 credits are included with the USA version of ViewRanger, which you can use to download routes.
Credit Top Ups
Once you have used up the included credit, you can buy additional credit using in-app purchasing. Outside Norway there are 3 top-ups available: £5.99/$9.99/€7.99 for 400 credits, £8.99/$14.99/€11.99 for 600 credits and £14.99/$24.99/€19.99 for 1000 credits. Each credit is worth 1.5p / 2.5 US cents / 2 Euro cents.
Credit Allocation
The credits are allocated to your account when you first try to download something that is priced in credits. So if you try to download a map tile, or a route, you'll be told that the credits are being allocated and asked to confirm this. Until then the credit shows as zero.
Map and Route Credit
The Premium edition of ViewRanger, and the £14.99/$24.99/€19.99 credit top-up, give you 1000 credits, which you can use to download maps from all countries for which we provide maps, except Norway, and also routes.
You can also use the map credit to pay for in-app purchases, within the in-app ViewRanger Store, as long as your balance is sufficient to fully cover the price of the item. It is not possible to use credits to part pay for an item. For example, you can use your 1000 credits to buy two GB 1:50,000 regions. Or you could buy all 3 GB national parks packs, with 334 credits left to use for map tiles around your home.
These example map areas show the area available if all 1000 credits are used on this map layer:
- Great Britain (Ordnance Survey) 1:50k (up to 14800 sqkm, at least 141 tiles), 1:25k (up to 630 sqkm, at least 24 tiles)
- Belgium 1:100k (up to 3594 sqkm), 1:50k (up to 575 sqkm), 1:10k (up to 208 sqkm)
- Finland 1:50k (up to 700 sqkm), 1:20k (up to 350 sqkm)
- France 1:100k (up to 10200 sqkm*), 1:25k (up to 1000 sqkm*)
- Germany 1:50k (up to 17300 sqkm), 1:25k (up to 8650 sqkm)
- Ireland (Eire) 1:50k (up to 5575 sqkm)
- Netherlands 1:25k (up to 1428 sqkm)
- Slovenia 1:50k (up to 615 sqkm), 1:25k (up to 370 sqkm)
- Sweden 1:50k (up to 1000 sqkm)
- Switzerland 1:100k (up to 2783 sqkm), 1:50k (up to 696 sqkm), 1:25k (up to 207 sqkm).
- USA 1:500k (free), 1:100k (2500 tiles, approx 270000 sq km), 1:24k (2500 tiles, approx 74000 sq km)
- New Zealand 1:50k (up to 134,000 sqkm)
- Guided Leisure Routes (costs vary, Walking World routes are usually 100 credits each. Routes mainly available in UK at current time.)
(* Areas shown for France are for the latest mapping. The areas for older NTF based mapping are 1:100k up to 5200 sqkm, 1:25k up to 390 sqkm.)
UK Ordnance Survey maps
A typical sheet of Explorer map is 20km x 30km, which is 600 sq km, so each token covers just over one typical sheet. There is some variation in this size, and ex-OL sheets are larger. A typical Landranger sheet is 40km x 40km, which is 1600 sq km, so each token covers 9¼ sheets.
We only charge for land, we don't charge for sea nor for coastal/tidal rivers. So if your map includes any sea you'll get rather more map than you would on paper
ViewRanger Explorer tiles are 5.12km x 5.12km and Landranger tiles are 10.24km x 10.24km. Both are 2048 x 2048 pixels. The iPhone screen is 320 x 480 pixels, so the tile covers the screen 27 times when viewed at 100% zoom.
