Field Notes
Guides and notes on offline navigation, public-land access, and getting more out of Trailmonger.
Run this test on your map app before opening day
Airplane mode, then pan one drainage over. Most map apps fail this. It takes forty seconds and it is the difference between a map and a souvenir.
Why some states show you a landowner's name and some never will
We carry property parcels for 45 states. Twenty-seven of them come with an owner name. The other eighteen do not, and in four of those a statute is the reason.
Which states have hunt unit boundaries you can actually carry offline
We wired game management units for 47 states plus every national wildlife refuge. Here is the list, what each state calls its units, where each one comes from, and the three states we could not do.
Public Hunting Land by State, Measured
How many acres of public land are open to hunting in each state — measured from mapped boundaries rather than summed from a spreadsheet, with the method shown.
Best Mountain Biking Trails in Mississippi, Ranked by the Data
45 trails and 246 mapped miles of mountain biking in Mississippi — the singletrack networks, the rail-trails, and where they actually are, ranked.
What "offline maps" actually means
Most apps cache pictures of the map you already looked at. Vector tiles download the data instead — so panning somewhere new still works with no signal.