MappSmith — Mountain & trail builder

  • Can I change the view on a silhouette?

    Yes. Under Look, The view turns the camera round the summit (it starts looking from your trailhead), makes the mountain taller, raises or lowers the camera angle, and moves closer or further out. The silhouette is cut from the real ground heights, so the shape is the mountain's own from that side.

  • Can I move the mile numbers and the peak name?

    Yes. The builder places them, and in the Studio each one becomes ordinary text: drag it, retype it or delete it.

  • Can I turn pieces and marks off?

    Yes, all of them. Under Details, every layer can be switched off: the range behind, the trail, the contour lines and the frame. So can every mark: the name, the summit height, the date, the names, the trail and climb numbers, the compass, the trailhead dot, mile markers and their numbers, and the...

  • Can I use my own hike from a GPS file?

    Yes. Under Mountain, choose GPS file and drop in a GPX, TCX, KML or GeoJSON file from your watch or app (Strava, Garmin Connect, AllTrails, Gaia). The file is read in your browser and never uploaded. The builder finds the summit for you: the highest named peak your hike came within about 400 m of...

  • Feet or metres?

    A US mountain starts in feet and any other in metres. Switch under Details. The summit height comes from OpenStreetMap where it is surveyed, otherwise from the ground model, which can read a little under the true summit. Type over it under Board if you know better.

  • How do I make a mountain or trail map?

    In the Layers panel, set Product to "Mountain or trail". The mountain builder opens. Mountain: tap a famous climb, search any peak or trail by name, or drop in a GPS file of your hike. Look: choose Silhouette, Layered topo or Engraved, a finish, and how bold the trail is. Details: the summit sta...

  • What do the three looks give me?

    Silhouette: the mountain as you see it from the trailhead, cut from its real heights, in wood. The range behind it is a second piece, the backer is the sky, the trail is one white piece on the mountain face, and a star sits on the summit. Four or five pieces, all big. Layered topo: the mountain f...

  • Which mountains and trails can I find?

    Any named peak or volcano on OpenStreetMap, worldwide, and any named trail. Pick a peak and the builder lists the hiking routes and named paths round it, the ones that reach the summit first. Tick the trail you climbed, tick two to join them, or tick none for the mountain alone. The famous climbs...