ViewRanger App Navigates to the Top of iTunes in Scandinavia
ViewRanger, the outdoor gps navigation app, achieved #1 Top-Grossing Apple iPhone app status in Norway this week - across all app and games categories. Used and trusted by outdoor enthusiasts, the ViewRanger app delivers clever outdoor GPS navigation, location-tracking, and high quality topographic mapping including charts from Norway's national mapping agency.The fully-featured app is a low-cost download and comes with a range of free "Open" mapping, including OpenStreetMap and OpenCycleMap charts, and free access to a variety of branded and user-generated trail guides. Outdoor enthusiasts can simply add premium topographic maps and premium branded trail guides through in-app purchasing. Premium content partners include Ordnance Survey, IGN, LINZ, the AA, Trail Magazine, CycleNI, and many more national mapping agencies, guidebook publishers, and tourism organizations.
The ViewRanger app has a track record of achieving #1 status within the Apple iTunes Navigation category having become a best-selling app in many territories including Great Britain, Ireland, Slovenia, and just last week in Sweden.
As well as iPhone, ViewRanger is available for iPad, Android smartphones and tablets, and Symbian smartphones and is available through Apple appstore, Android Market, and Nokia OVI stores. The app is complemented by a web-based online community and route planning website that helps walkers, cyclists, mountain bikers, and other outdoor activity fans to discover, plan, record, and share their outdoor adventures.
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About ViewRanger GPS
Augmentra Ltd is the Cambridge UK based Angel funded software development company behind ViewRanger, the award winning mobile app, which delivers Mapping, Navigation, GPS- enabled guides & route content and Location Sharing to anyone, worldwide, who wants to get more from their time in the Great Outdoors.
The App runs on a massive range of smartphones and devices that use the Apple iOS (iPhone/iPad), Android, or Symbian OS and works virtually anywhere in the world using web based mapping, which can be cached for off-line use. Additionally, it can upgraded to run premium topographic map data like Ordnance Survey maps in Great Britain, for a growing number of countries, including Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, parts of Italy, Norway, New Zealand, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland & USA. A testament to the App’s accuracy and reliability is the fact that it is today used by almost 50% of Search & Rescue teams in England & Wales.
The ViewRanger App is complemented by a web portal for route planning, account control and community sharing at www.my.viewranger.com. The App is also a powerful GPS-enabled content publishing platform that allows Guidebook & Route owners, like The AA, Walking World, Cumbria Tourism and Cordee to deliver their content directly to a user’s smartphone.
www.viewranger.com
For more information contact: Ian Pond, Marketing Director at ViewRanger – mailto:[email protected]