[Android/GPS/Backcountry hiking filter] Best offline Android navigation for hiking not driving. More inside.

• [Android/GPS/Backcountry hiking filter] Best offline Android navigation for hiking not driving. More inside. Not looking for apps like COpilot. Something more along the lines of https://market.android.com/details?id=com.frogsparks.mytrails&feature=search_result or http://www.oruxmaps.com/index.html. It needs to have offline support because I rarely if ever have cell service. I'm currently using Mytracks, which is nice because it does plot my route and prevent me from getting lost but doesn't allow me to import .gpx. There are backcountry maps to certain shelters etc that have waypoints to follow (yes I know how to read a topo map in case I get lost but it'd be nice to just follow waypoints occasionally). Anyone have any other apps to recommend or any experiences with Mytrails, Oruxmaps etc?

• Answer:

  I'm a bit of a fan of MyTrails. Is has some 40 map sources (Google, Yahoo, MS, Ovi, OSM) from which you can create offline packages in the app. If you use http://mobac.sourceforge.net/ on your computer you can quickly create MGM packages of any shape (ie along a gpx track) of all OpenStreetMap sources. But that's not even the strongest point of MyTrails. The OpenGL rendering is super-smooth, the interface very clean and in the track manager you can easily load dozens of GPX tracks together and give them a separate color or color them according to altitude. So you're not limited to one track to follow while on a hike. Also there's gpsies and dropbox integration for in- and exporting tracks.The pro license is worth both euros. Oh, and the developer is very responsive.