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Woah, nice! I recently got interest to get into hiking and downloaded current apps for it. One of the 'business model' for current top hiking app - AllTrails -

• jameal 4y ago
  Thanks! It relies heavily on open source libraries and open map tile providers. A service worker handles caching of most of the application resources, while a Leaflet plugin[1] handles the actual tiles. You can see it in action by loading it on your phone, switching to landscape mode and pressing the save icon () that appears. It will cache everything in view, for certain zoom levels (configurable). I believe the plugin saves to session storage. [1]: https://allartk.github.io/leaflet.offline/ https://allartk.github.io/leaflet.offline/
• therealdrag0 4y ago
  I’ve used and tried a lot of hiking apps. And tbh the Organic Maps (fork of maps.me) is quite good for hikes even though it’s “meant” for more urban stuff and is totally free to download huge regions of terrain, and it has good route finding along trails (crazy how all apps don’t have this even some highly rated ones.).
  • throwaway1777 4y ago
    Also use organic maps. Works great for hikes in my experience.