...I have Memory Map with the Lake District NP OS map on an old laptop (before it was available as a subscription and able to be used on a phone or tablet). Has anyone got the new subscription and using it on a phone or tablet too? This looks the best option I have seen so far......Any comments about these apps will be appreciated.
I may go down the Memory Map route unless someone has had any problems with it? £25 per year seems good value for money and it seems to do everything I need it for. It will mostly be used to record routes and be there to show me where I am on the map if I'm unsure (I mean lost) and I could even plot routes on my laptop if I wanted to give up using my bit of string with mile markers on to measure on a paper map
Well I've been using Memory map with the £25 (+VAT) full 50K/25K annual subscription for a couple of months now. (My VR subscription also expired and I was not convinced by OA). You can buy 50K/25K permanently for about the cost of four years subscription, but I prefer the idea of providing MM with a smaller regular income to give them more incentive to improve the app.
I like MM. You can use it on up to 5 devices with the annual subscription, and the documentation also allows these to be other family members, using the same login details.
I'm using it on a desktop, laptop and mobile. I like the fact that MM has a native Windows/Mac app that you can install and use to browse maps on/offline - I've downloaded the whole 50K to my laptop but just download the bits of 25K I need at a time as it's many GB. I take the laptop on holiday for work anyway (except backpacking!), and prefer browsing maps on-screen to paper.
In a couple of months use I've not found any bugs so far, it seems very stable.
You can also zoom in on maps to a decent level - something that OA did not allow me to do - which is useful if you can't see small details very easily. Plus *I* can decide when to change map scale on zooming - OA insists it knows better.
It's very simple and quick to start up. It just shows maps, never suggests accommodation or offers to share my walk with a friend!
A big downside is it has a limited range of countries (UK, USA, France & Australia I think) which changes all the time, so it's not a one-stop solution for travelling abroad.
So I'm happy with it.