THE 2022 ADVENTURE GRANT IS CLOSED. Looking for the 2023 Adventure Grant? You can apply here. Whether it begins with a spot on a map that piques your curiosity or a photograph that you can’t get off your mind, exploration is all about pursuing what inspires you. Through our interactions with users, we’ve seen that […]
This is an update to how we run the sites and how you can access your data, but no action is required by you as a user. We’ve always run two sites in parallel: CalTopo, for on recreational use cases, and SARTopo, which focuses on professional uses cases, such as search and rescue, through additional […]
New ADS-B based aircraft tracking overlay, and hundreds of additional weather stations and statistics are now live in CalTopo alongside some cleanup of the layer list. More details about both these overlays can be found below. Access to some overlays will change slightly as part of this improvement as highlighted below. Above: Aircraft layer over […]
First Responders: Display and monitor a subject’s location in your map with SMS Update: This feature can only be created on the web version of the program at this time. You can not yet send the text from your mobile device. Have you ever been talking to a lost person on the phone, but […]
We’ve just released a major UI overhaul for the desktop and mobile websites. We had two major goals with this project: first, reduce the variation between the desktop web, mobile web, and app UIs. And second, address some recurring issues around discoverability and ease of use. The UI is now better grouped by […]
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