Squirrel Point Cartographer

A Location (or waypoint) is a point on the Map. Cartographer lets you create unlimited Locations and style them to help create quickly identifiable markers.

Locations can be edited, updating their name, coordinates or appearance. You can use a Location to begin a Path, creating intricate planned routes. Quickly export one or more Locations to your device.

A main goal of any mapping app is planning your route. Whether you're reviewing a past adventure or planning a new trip you will want to see your Path.

Cartographer's routing tools quickly switch from autogeneration to manually drawing when your trip leads you off the known trails. When you're planning a route on roads or known trails a Path is created by selecting the start and end points. Should you be planning some backwoods adventure where no trail exists switch to manual mode and pick points on the map to draw the proposed route. Best of all you can mix and match methods within the same Path. Start on the road or trail and then wander off on your bushwhack. One Path can do it all.

Autorouting has three distinct tranport modes to help select the best, most safest route. Select from Driving, Walking or Bicycling to find your way.

Paths can be styled and will display markers along their length to help see how long they are at a glance. You can view a Paths elevation profile or see all the waypoints collected on a trip.

Your Paths can be edited updating waypoints with drag and drop ease!

Use Groups to help organize your data. Add all the Paths and Locations for an upcoming trip to a Group or collect all your bike rides from last month. Groups are flexible and can be used as you like to organize your map data.

Create as many Groups as you need and place Locations and Paths into one or more Groups. Quickly update the map to display only the Group you are currently working on to focus on your upcoming adventure.

The heart of the app is the map. Several Map styles are available to create just the right backgrounds.

Various topographic and satellite styles can be used. Instantly switch the Map background from the toolbar to change your view.

Importing is as simple as dragging and dropping a GPX file on the app! Review the contents of any GPX file and only import the items you want.

Exporting is configurable and flexible. Export one Location or everything in the app. Exporting will even preserve all your configuration so if you carefully style your Locations and Paths those styles are preserved should you re-import that GPX in the future. If you share your GPX with other Cartographer users they will see the Annotations exactly as your styled them!

Print a paper copy of your map or export a PDF to share. If you need an image you can generate JPG or PNG images of the Map. Quickly copy the current map to the clipboard for pasting into other apps. This is a real Mac app and plays well with all your other apps.

Exporting content requires either an active Cartographer subscription or a the purchase of a one-time lifetime unlock.

Using plain text search to quickly and easily find spots on the map to add as Locations or create new paths.

You can search for place names, addresses, latitude and longitude coordinates or phrases like "restaurants near me." Use the results of your search to zoom to the spot on the map or add a new Location from search with just one click.

Powerful filter options let you filter and search within your own Cartographer content. Drill down through all your Groups, Locations and Paths to find that one favorite campsite you recorded.

Cartographer is a native Mac Application. It's not a web app with the limitations and performance issues associated with browser based tools.

Mac apps have easily accessible help and Cartographer is no exception. Get help with features easily right from the help menu. Help is easily accessible in the app not on some Discord site. If you are still stuck or have a suggestion to improve the app, a feedback option is available directly in the help menu to contact me, the developer, directly.

Use the app the way you like. Access commands via menus, toolbars or mouse gestures. Drag a Location to add it to a Group. Select tools from popup menus accessed via mouse/trackpad. It's a real Mac app. You already know how it works.

There are many tools available to work with your GPS data. We've used them too. Most of these tools require creating an account and sharing your data with some corporation. Often this works just fine, until one day after you've amassed a lot of Map data the tools start to fail, the company decides to raise their fees or worse yet goes out of business.

Cartographer keeps your data yours. Nothing is shared unless you elect to share. Your data is stored on your computer. No one can take it from you. We use the industry standard GPX file format for importing and exporting data so you can always get your data out of Cartographer and take it with you wherever you may need it.

Cartographer was created by someone who saw a need for this type of app and actually uses the it, not some corporation looking to farm your data for a quick buck or AI training.

Our plain English Privacy Terms can be read here