3D drapes everything over real terrain; drag with right-mouse / two fingers to tilt and rotate. 2D is a flat top-down map — lighter on battery and steadier for navigation. All layers work in both.
Imhof is our own shading: multidirectional light, ridge/valley accents, warm highlights and cool shadows. Multidir is the renderer's built-in hillshade. The azimuth / altitude sliders (advanced) move the sun — a low sun (20–35°) models terrain best.
Coloured bands of steepness, computed live from the elevation model (CalTopo-compatible palette):
Slope reads shallower when zoomed out — coarse pixels average away steep ground. Judge slopes zoomed in, and never let a map replace judgment in terrain.
Which way slopes face: warm orange = south (sun, early melt), blue = north (cold, holds snow). Stronger colour = steeper ground.
Boundaries of national and natural parks (Apuseni, Retezat, Domogled…), from OpenStreetMap. Informational only — motorised access in Romanian protected areas is generally restricted and rules vary by zone; verify current local regulations before riding or driving off-road.
Roads are drawn the way OsmAnd draws them. Tracks and trails use the colour code of OsmAnd's Enduro style: the colour says what a track is made of, a broken line that it is rougher, dots how hard a trail is, and red that a tag closes it to motorcycles.
No red is not permission. The map shows what OpenStreetMap says: many forest and farm tracks are closed on the ground without being tagged, and tags go out of date. The Prohibitions and Difficulty switches (advanced) turn the red and the dots off.
Draw a route by tapping points on the map. With Snap on, each point lands on the nearest road or track and the line follows the roads between them; a dashed leg is one that could not be routed and is drawn straight. Undo (or Backspace) takes the last change back. While you draw or edit, your other routes show as a purple band to draw along. Or load a GPX track (button or drag&drop). Every route is kept in this browser under Routes: tap one to select it, rename or delete it there.
A selected route has its profile, and on it Edit and GPX. Editing, drag a point to move it — the legs either side follow the roads again — tap the line to add a point, tap the map to add points at the end as when drawing, and tap a point to select it: Delete removes it, and with the first point selected new points go at the start. Share gives a link to the route, and a QR code: whoever opens it sees the route with its profile, kept in their routes, ready to navigate or save as a GPX. The route is encrypted with a key that is only in the link; Stop sharing in the same dialog makes the link stop working, and so does deleting the route. GPX saves the route as a GPX track with elevations (on a phone, to the share sheet). You get distance, climb, and grade-coloured profile for every route. The gain deadband (advanced) ignores elevation wiggles smaller than the threshold — that's why our climb numbers are lower and more honest than a raw GPS sum.
A loaded GPX or a drawn route gets two buttons on its profile: Follow keeps the map on your live position, and Navigate turns it into a navigation view: tilted, turned to the way you are going, your position low on the screen with the road ahead above it. Both show distance done, distance and climb remaining, and how far you are off the track — with an alert colour beyond 50 m — and keep the screen on. Pan the map and it waits; Recenter brings it back.
Ride together (under Routes) starts a group ride and gives you an invite link and a QR code. Everyone who joins shows on the others' maps, with their name and colour, and the group can send quick messages — OK, Wait for me, Regroup here, Need help — or type. Quick messages carry your position: tap the pin to see where. Share route sends the selected route to everyone, to add to their routes and navigate. Read aloud speaks incoming messages, into a helmet headset if one is paired.
Your position goes out while the map is open on screen, and sharing keeps the screen on, as Navigate does: a web page gets no location once the screen is off. A rider whose phone went into a pocket shows faded, with how long ago they were last heard from.
Your position is used only to move the marker on your screen. It is never sent anywhere — unless you join a group ride. Then your name, your position and your messages go to the riders in that ride, encrypted with a key that exists only in the invite link: the relay that passes them on cannot read them, writes nothing to disk, and forgets a ride 12 hours after its last rider leaves. Anyone with the link can join, so send it only to your group.
Your routes stay in this browser, unless you Share one: then it is encrypted with a key that exists only in the link, and our server keeps it — unreadable to us — until you stop sharing it or delete the route.
Terrain: Mapterhorn · Date realizate de ANCPI (www.geoportal.gov.ro), Licența pentru Guvernare Deschisă OGL-ROU-1.0 · produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved · Peaks, place names, protected areas, roads & trails: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); track and trail colour code after the OsmAnd-Rendering Enduro style · Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX IT Services GmbH, CC-BY 4.0 (modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016).
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