I have decided to build my own outdoor mapping app.
Frustrated with most other mapping applications not providing a simple & private experience, why not just build my own?
Introducing Topo Lock Maps!
A simple, private, and secure outdoor mapping platform.
Features
- ⛺ Offline maps
- 🚶 Trails
- ⛰️ Terrain features / isolines / hill shading
- 🧰 Measuring tools
- 🦌 Hunt / game lands
- 🏠 Parcel data
Plus including extra awesome features:
- 🔒 End-to-End encrypted (E2EE) user data (pins, tracks, notes, pictures, etc.)
- ✅ Simple maps and user interface
- ⚡ Blazing fast maps
- 🔋 Efficient battery usage
- ♾️ No offline map data expiration (you own your data forever)
Never including bloatware / cruft / 💩:
- 🚫 No social media SDKs
- 🚫 No private data harvesting / mining
- 🚫 No ads
- 🚫 No 3rd party data brokers
- 🚫 bloat
Why?
After more than 20 years in the software and cybersecurity industry, why not? What better way to learn than by building my own mapping platform and self hosting maps?
So… let’s do this!
“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.” - Bruce Lee