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topographic map in Lokimaps.","7",[170,171,172,173,174],"Finnish topographic map legend","maastokartta symbols","MML map symbols","Finland contour lines","topographic map key",{"path":176,"translationKey":177,"title":178,"description":179,"section":57,"sectionOrder":40,"order":180,"icon":71,"featured":12,"featuredOrder":13,"keywords":181,"updatedAt":77},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols","sweden-topographic-map-symbols","Swedish topographic map symbols","Learn how to read terrain, contours, trails, mountain routes, shelters, roads, wetlands, and restrictions on Sweden's official topographic map.","8",[182,183,184,185,186],"Swedish topographic map legend","Lantmäteriet map symbols","Topografisk webbkarta legend","Sweden hiking map symbols","fjällkarta 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map.","Share","share",[297,298,299,300,301],"Lokimaps location sharing","share hiking location","location sharing group","encrypted location sharing","invite companions",{"path":303,"translationKey":304,"title":305,"description":306,"section":307,"sectionOrder":146,"order":27,"icon":308,"featured":12,"featuredOrder":13,"keywords":309,"updatedAt":20},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flokimaps-pro","lokimaps-pro","Lokimaps PRO","Compare free and PRO Lokimaps features, subscribe through the App Store, manage or restore a purchase, and understand map and offline-download access.","Help","pro",[305,310,311,312,313,314],"Lokimaps subscription","all maps and layers","restore purchases","PRO routing","custom map layers",{"path":316,"translationKey":317,"title":318,"description":319,"section":307,"sectionOrder":146,"order":40,"icon":308,"featured":12,"featuredOrder":13,"keywords":320,"updatedAt":20},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flegacy-subscription-to-pro","legacy-subscription-to-pro","Move an older subscription to Lokimaps 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Find quick guides for maps, route planning, offline use, navigation, and more. Choose a topic below to get started.",1,{"section":26,"id":22,"title":24,"titles":347,"content":348,"level":345},[],"Set up Lokimaps on iPhone or iPad, choose your included main map, enable location access, and learn the essential map controls. Lokimaps is an outdoor map app for iPhone and iPad. It combines official Nordic topographic maps with offline downloads, route planning, track recording, bookmarks, GPX support, and other map tools.",{"section":26,"id":350,"title":351,"titles":352,"content":353,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fgetting-started#set-up-the-app","Set up the app",[24],"Open Lokimaps and continue through the welcome screens.Choose the included main map that best matches where you spend time. The choices are Topo (Finland), Topo (Sweden), Topo (Norway), and Topo (Worldwide).Choose carefully. Your included main map cannot be changed later, while Lokimaps PRO gives access to all built-in maps and layers.Allow location access if you want Lokimaps to show your position, navigate to a destination, or record a track. If you previously declined location access, open the iOS Settings app, select Apps, then Lokimaps, and review Location.",2,{"section":26,"id":356,"title":357,"titles":358,"content":359,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fgetting-started#learn-the-map","Learn the map",[24],"Drag the map to move to another area.Pinch or use the zoom in  and zoom out  controls. More detail appears as you zoom in where the selected map supports it.Select Locate  once to follow your position, again to follow your position and heading, and a third time to stop following.Use the Maps  control in the lower-left group of map controls to switch maps, combine compatible country maps, or show layers above the base map.Use the Search  control near the upper-right corner to find a place, address, supported coordinate, or Finnish property identifier.Tap the centre crosshair  or select Pointer  to place a pointer at the map centre. Its details include coordinates, distance, direction, estimated elevation, address, navigation, and bookmark actions. The bottom toolbar contains Locate , Pointer , Route Planner , Location sharing , Bookmarks , and Settings . The separate map controls contain Maps , zoom in , zoom out , Search , compass, scale, speed, track recording, and other context-dependent information. See Map controls and settings for the complete guide.",{"section":26,"id":361,"title":362,"titles":363,"content":364,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fgetting-started#prepare-before-going-outdoors","Prepare before going outdoors",[24],"Select the map you intend to use.Download the required area while you have a reliable connection.Save important destinations as bookmarks or import a GPX file.Check your battery, location permissions, and the map at the zoom levels you expect to use. Next, learn the map controls and settings, see how maps and layers work, or start with offline maps.",{"section":26,"id":36,"title":38,"titles":366,"content":367,"level":345},[],"Use every Lokimaps map control and setting, including Locate modes, Pointer, zoom, compass, scale, speed, bookmark pin grouping, 3D, screen auto-lock, base camp, the live trail, units, and GPS accuracy. The main map has two kinds of controls. The small controls drawn over the map handle maps, zoom, search, compass, scale, speed, recording, navigation status, and other context-dependent information. The bottom toolbar opens the main tools and saved content. All controls and settings on this page are available without PRO.",{"section":26,"id":369,"title":370,"titles":371,"content":372,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmap-controls-and-settings#move-zoom-rotate-and-tilt-the-map","Move, zoom, rotate, and tilt the map",[38],"Drag with one finger to pan.Pinch or use zoom in  and zoom out  to zoom.Rotate with two fingers when Allow map rotation is enabled under Settings , General.Drag up or down with two fingers to change the 3D pitch when Allow 3D map view is enabled. Turning that setting off returns the camera to a flat view.The compass shows the map heading after the map has been rotated. Select it to return north to the top.The scale updates automatically for the current zoom level. The centre crosshair  marks the point at the centre of the map. Pointer uses this point, and Route Planner can use it to add a waypoint while the planner is open.",{"section":26,"id":374,"title":375,"titles":376,"content":377,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmap-controls-and-settings#follow-your-position-with-locate","Follow your position with Locate",[38],"Select Locate  in the bottom toolbar to cycle through three tracking modes: Follow your position.Follow your position and heading.Stop following so the map can remain where you move it.",{"section":26,"id":379,"title":380,"titles":381,"content":382,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmap-controls-and-settings#inspect-a-map-point-with-pointer","Inspect a map point with Pointer",[38],"Move the map until the required point is under the centre crosshair , then select Pointer  in the bottom toolbar. You can also tap the crosshair directly. When no active crosshair-based tool handles the tap, Lokimaps places the pointer at the map centre. Open the pointer details to: Copy the coordinate in the selected coordinate systemSee straight-line distance and direction from your current positionRequest an estimated elevation and address through online servicesStart straight-line NavigationSave the point as a bookmark",{"section":26,"id":384,"title":385,"titles":386,"content":387,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmap-controls-and-settings#set-and-use-a-base-camp","Set and use a base camp",[38],"Tap your blue current-location marker.Select Set as base camp.Lokimaps places a blue star marker at that position and keeps it after the app is reopened.Tap the base-camp marker to choose Navigate or Delete. Setting a new base camp replaces the previous base-camp position. You can also select Copy coordinates after tapping your current-location marker.",{"section":26,"id":389,"title":390,"titles":391,"content":392,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmap-controls-and-settings#understand-the-live-trail","Understand the live trail",[38],"Lokimaps draws a live trail behind your position as usable location updates arrive. This temporary trail helps you see where you have just moved, but it is not a saved track and is not restored after the app is restarted. Under Settings , Trail, choose its colour and width or select Clear trail. To create a named, persistent item with timing and movement statistics, use Track recording.",{"section":26,"id":394,"title":395,"titles":396,"content":397,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmap-controls-and-settings#general-settings","General settings",[38],"Open Settings  from the bottom toolbar. Under General you can change: Allow map rotation, which enables or disables the two-finger rotation gestureAllow 3D map view, which enables or disables map pitchGroup nearby bookmark pins, which combines nearby saved points to keep the map readable. Turn it off to show every bookmark pin separatelyKeep screen awake, which prevents iOS from locking the screen automatically while Lokimaps is openShow speed, which shows or hides the current-speed control on the mapShow Apple points of interest, which shows or hides Apple's place markersShow track recording, which shows or hides the recording control without deleting or stopping an active recordingGPS accuracy, with Accurate, Balanced, and Battery saving modes Accurate requests the best available accuracy and every movement update. Balanced requests approximately ten-metre accuracy and updates after about ten metres. Battery saving requests approximately 100-metre accuracy, filters updates to about 50 metres, and allows iOS to pause updates automatically. Actual results still depend on the device and conditions.",{"section":26,"id":399,"title":400,"titles":401,"content":402,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmap-controls-and-settings#units-and-line-styles","Units and line styles",[38],"Under Settings , Units, choose: Coordinate system: WGS84 DD, DDM, or DMS, ETRS-TM35FIN, MGRS, UTM \u002F ETRS89, SWEREF 99 TM, ETRS-GK, or YKJAngle: Degrees, NATO mils (6400), or Finnish piiru (6000)Speed, elevation, and distance units The angle setting is used by Pointer and Measure Tool. Coordinate formatting is used by Pointer, copied coordinates, bookmarks, and other coordinate displays. Under Line style, choose the default colour and width used by new track recordings and imported GPX routes and tracks. Route Planner uses the selected width while its active route is shown. A saved route or track can later be given its own line colour and width from its Bookmarks details.",{"section":26,"id":404,"title":405,"titles":406,"content":407,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmap-controls-and-settings#about-and-support-actions","About and support actions",[38],"The About section shows the app version and build. It also provides Send feedback, Write a review, Redeem code, Documentation, Support, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Use. Documentation opens the Lokimaps guides inside the app. The redeem action is for eligible App Store offer codes; it is not required for a normal subscription purchase. For map selection and the separate Maps  control, see Maps and layers. For location or display problems, see Troubleshooting and support.",{"section":57,"id":53,"title":55,"titles":409,"content":410,"level":345},[],"Learn how base maps and overlay layers work in Lokimaps, switch maps, combine compatible Nordic maps, and choose the right built-in or custom source. Lokimaps separates cartography into maps and layers. A map is the base you navigate on. A layer adds information above that base, such as property boundaries, hunting areas, or public geographic data from a custom service.",{"section":57,"id":412,"title":413,"titles":414,"content":415,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmaps-and-layers#maps-layers-and-your-collection","Maps, layers, and your collection",[55],"The Maps screen contains two collections: Maps contains base maps. At least one base map is selected so there is always cartography behind your routes, bookmarks, and tools.Layers contains optional overlays. You can show any number of compatible layers above the selected map. Adding an item puts it in your collection. Selecting it controls whether it is currently visible. Hiding an item does not remove it from the collection or delete its settings.",{"section":57,"id":417,"title":418,"titles":419,"content":420,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmaps-and-layers#switch-the-visible-map","Switch the visible map",[55],"Select the Maps  control in the lower-left group of map controls.Under Maps, select a map name to show that map by itself.Pan and zoom to check its coverage and level of detail.Open the Actions  menu beside a map for its description, preview, download actions, or other available settings. Road map, Satellite, nautical charts, Historic maps, Topo (Worldwide), and custom sources configured as base maps are designed to be shown alone.",{"section":57,"id":422,"title":423,"titles":424,"content":425,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmaps-and-layers#combine-compatible-country-maps","Combine compatible country maps",[55],"The Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish Topo maps, plus Finnish Aerial imagery, can be selected together with compatible country maps. Lokimaps clips them at national borders so a journey across the Nordics can use the best available map on each side. Open Maps  from the map controls.Use the selection circle  at the left of each compatible map to select the maps you want together.Move across a national border to confirm the transition. If a map is exclusive, selecting it replaces the current base-map combination. Lokimaps shows the appropriate selection control for each map.",{"section":57,"id":427,"title":428,"titles":429,"content":430,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmaps-and-layers#show-overlay-layers","Show overlay layers",[55],"Open Maps  from the map controls and scroll to Layers.Select a layer to show it above the base map.Select it again to hide it.Use the layer's Actions  menu to view details or edit settings when available. Layers can have their own coverage and zoom limits. A selected layer may appear blank when the map is outside its area, zoomed too far out, or waiting for an online service.",{"section":57,"id":432,"title":433,"titles":434,"content":435,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmaps-and-layers#add-and-organise-items","Add and organise items",[55],"Select Add map  or Add layer  to browse items that are not yet in your collection. Built-in items include a description, coverage, provider, access status, and preview where available. Items marked PRO require Lokimaps PRO. Use the collection's editing controls to reorder or remove items. Removing a built-in item only removes it from your collection, so it can be added again later. Removing a custom map or layer also deletes its saved configuration and local cache from the device.",{"section":57,"id":437,"title":438,"titles":439,"content":440,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmaps-and-layers#choose-the-right-guide","Choose the right guide",[55],"Browse every built-in map and native layer for coverage, providers, access, combination rules, and offline support.Download a supported map area before leaving mobile coverage.Add a custom WMS, WMTS, or WFS source manually when you already know the provider or service URL.Find a compatible map or layer with Layer AI when you know what information you want but not where to get it.Add and manage an Oma riista hunting area when you have an area identifier from Oma riista. For trip planning, select and test the map first, then verify any overlays at the zoom levels and locations where you expect to use them.",{"section":57,"id":66,"title":68,"titles":442,"content":443,"level":345},[],"Understand depths, rocks, foul areas, fairways, buoys, lights, chart datums, and safety limits on the Finnish nautical chart in Lokimaps. The Finnish nautical chart in Lokimaps is not approved for navigation and does not replace an official, corrected nautical chart or required navigation equipment. Do not use it as the sole source for a voyage, water depth, clearance, or hazard decision. Lokimaps displays Traficom's open chart-image WMTS, a viewing interface based on hydrographic data in raster format. Traficom lists that interface under open data, separately from official paper charts and ENCs for navigation and from quality-assured chart datasets, on its distribution page. For the drawn marks, use Traficom's official explanation of symbols on Finnish nautical charts. Traficom states that its printed charts use international INT symbology based on the International Hydrographic Organization's S-4 standard. Use Traficom's own key for the Finnish symbols and abbreviations visible in the raster map.",{"section":57,"id":445,"title":446,"titles":447,"content":448,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-nautical-chart-symbols#depths-depth-contours-and-colour-areas","Depths, depth contours, and colour areas",[68],"Soundings are individual depth values. Depth contours mark boundaries between depth ranges, and colour bands help separate shallow water from deeper water. Read a sounding together with its contour, surrounding tint, units, and chart datum. A blank space is not proof of deep or fully surveyed water. Charted depth is not the same as the water available at this moment. Wind, atmospheric pressure, currents, regulation, and seasonal conditions can raise or lower the actual water level. Never add or subtract from a charted value until you have confirmed the chart's vertical reference and the current water level. At the closest app zoom levels, Lokimaps enlarges the last available raster tile. Larger figures are not more precise, and enlargement cannot reveal omitted hazards. The tile view also does not provide the complete title block, edition, scale, caution notes, or correction status that you must check on an approved chart.",{"section":57,"id":450,"title":451,"titles":452,"content":453,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-nautical-chart-symbols#rocks-foul-areas-wrecks-and-obstructions","Rocks, foul areas, wrecks, and obstructions",[68],"The official legend distinguishes rocks by whether they are above water, awash, or below the chart datum, along with wrecks and other obstructions. Their symbols may be combined with depth values or danger lines. Pay special attention to a foul area. Traficom explains that its black dotted danger curve encloses a widespread rocky or obstructed area where not every danger is charted individually. A symbol inside the curve identifies the kind of danger. Do not plan a route between the few visible rock symbols inside such an area, because the apparent gaps are not surveyed safe passages.",{"section":57,"id":455,"title":456,"titles":457,"content":458,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-nautical-chart-symbols#fairways-routes-and-restricted-areas","Fairways, routes, and restricted areas",[68],"Finnish charts use different marks for fairway areas, channel centre lines, recommended tracks, leading lines, direction of traffic, anchorage information, and limits or restricted areas. Similar-looking dashed or dotted lines can carry very different meanings. Do not confuse fairway class, safe clearance depth, and design draught. On N2000 charts, merchant fairways in classes 1 and 2 show the safe clearance depth using the minimum-depth symbol; the value is a secured fairway depth, not necessarily the area's actual minimum water depth. Their design draught is published separately. A channel draught printed on an older mean-sea-level chart is treated as a design draught. Traficom's channel-depth guidance explains the distinction. Neither the safe clearance depth nor the design draught guarantees safe passage, and each must be adjusted for the current water level. Shoaling, temporary work, buoy changes, traffic arrangements, and restrictions can also change. Consult a current official chart, fairway information, and Notices to Mariners before relying on a route.",{"section":57,"id":460,"title":461,"titles":462,"content":463,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-nautical-chart-symbols#buoys-beacons-lights-and-leading-marks","Buoys, beacons, lights, and leading marks",[68],"The symbol for an aid to navigation combines several pieces of information. Shape, colour, topmark, light colour, and light characteristic can each matter. Cardinal, lateral, isolated-danger, safe-water, and special marks must be distinguished using the official symbol key, not guessed from a small screen icon. Lights and sectors may be accompanied by abbreviations for colour, rhythm, period, height, and nominal range. Leading lights or daymarks work as a pair only when observed and interpreted correctly. Zoom in enough to read every annotation, then confirm it against the current official material.",{"section":57,"id":465,"title":466,"titles":467,"content":468,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-nautical-chart-symbols#cables-bridges-pipelines-and-other-clearances","Cables, bridges, pipelines, and other clearances",[68],"Charts mark submarine cables and pipelines, overhead cables, bridges, ferry cables, fish farms, harbour works, and other objects that can affect a route. Clearance values refer to a stated vertical datum and may not equal the space available under current water conditions. An anchor symbol or apparently open water does not override cable, pipeline, protection, or prohibited-area markings. Read the surrounding lines and abbreviations before anchoring or entering a constrained area.",{"section":57,"id":470,"title":471,"titles":472,"content":473,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-nautical-chart-symbols#coordinate-and-height-reference-systems","Coordinate and height reference systems",[68],"Current Finnish nautical charts use EUREF-FIN, which Traficom says aligns with GPS's WGS 84 closely enough for practical navigation. A few green inland-water charts produced before 2003 use the older KKJ coordinate system and must not be treated as WGS 84 charts. Coordinate compatibility does not make every feature accurate to a metre, nor does it compensate for source-data age or chart generalization. Finland is moving nautical charts to the N2000 height system, expressed as Baltic Sea Chart Datum 2000 (BSCD2000). In sea areas, depths and vertical clearances use the same reference level, either N2000 zero or, during the transition, annual theoretical mean water. Inland charts use different levels: a lake-specific low-water reference for depths and a high-water reference for vertical clearances. The actual water can fall below the depth reference or rise above the clearance reference. Traficom's general chart information explains these systems and links current sea and inland water-level services. Check the title and metadata of the approved chart you are actually using.",{"section":57,"id":475,"title":476,"titles":477,"content":478,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-nautical-chart-symbols#before-going-on-the-water","Before going on the water",[68],"Use this Lokimaps layer for geographic context and trip discussion, then prepare with authoritative navigation material: Obtain an approved chart at a suitable scale.Read Traficom's full Finnish chart symbol key.Confirm the depth and clearance reference system.Check current water levels, weather, and local warnings.Apply chart corrections and review Traficom's Notices to Mariners.Use suitable navigation equipment and keep a safe margin for uncertainty. If a symbol, abbreviation, or line is unclear, treat the meaning as unknown until it has been checked in the official publication.",{"section":57,"id":79,"title":81,"titles":480,"content":481,"level":345},[],"Understand depths, hazards, fairways, buoys, lights, datums, and official INT 1 symbols on the Norwegian nautical chart shown in Lokimaps. The Norwegian nautical chart in Lokimaps is not approved for navigation. Use an updated official paper chart or ENC, appropriate navigation equipment, and current safety information when travelling on the water. Lokimaps shows Kartverket's raster chart service for geographic reference. The authoritative visual key is Kartverket's Symbols and Abbreviations in Norwegian nautical charts, also called Norwegian INT 1. It is a bilingual Norwegian and English inventory of international symbols plus Norwegian-specific variants. Norwegian INT 1 is extensive because a chart symbol often combines shape, colour, line style, abbreviation, number, and surrounding context. This page explains the main groups, but it is not a substitute for matching the actual mark in INT 1. At the closest app zoom levels, Lokimaps enlarges the last available raster tile. Larger soundings and symbols are not more precise, and enlargement cannot recover hazards omitted at the source chart's scale. The tile view also omits the full title block, edition and correction statement, caution notes, paper-chart source diagram, and ENC ZOC information needed to assess an official chart.",{"section":57,"id":483,"title":484,"titles":485,"content":486,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-nautical-chart-symbols#scale-and-source-quality-come-first","Scale and source quality come first",[81],"Use the largest-scale official chart suitable for the waters. Kartverket's guide to reading a nautical chart explains that smaller-scale charts are heavily simplified in coastal waters. Enlarging a raster image does not reveal hazards that were omitted at its source scale. On an official paper chart, the source diagram describes survey quality and age; in an ENC, Zones of Confidence (ZOC) conveys data quality. Nearby areas can be based on very different survey methods. A precise-looking sounding or shoreline does not make an entire area equally accurate.",{"section":57,"id":488,"title":489,"titles":490,"content":491,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-nautical-chart-symbols#soundings-contours-drying-areas-and-seabed","Soundings, contours, drying areas, and seabed",[81],"Soundings are individual depths relative to the chart's stated datum. Depth contours and colour bands divide the water into depth ranges. Drying heights identify features that are above the chart datum at some states of the tide but covered at others. INT 1 also includes abbreviations and patterns for seabed materials and the quality of holding ground. Contours are generalized and do not describe every underwater variation. Read the least depth, nearby hazards, survey quality, vessel draught, tide, waves, and a safety margin together. Never infer a safe channel merely from empty space between soundings.",{"section":57,"id":493,"title":494,"titles":495,"content":496,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-nautical-chart-symbols#rocks-wrecks-obstructions-and-offshore-installations","Rocks, wrecks, obstructions, and offshore installations",[81],"Different symbols identify rocks that are always visible, awash, or submerged, along with wrecks, foul ground, underwater obstructions, wellheads, platforms, fish farms, and other installations. A danger circle, sounding, abbreviation, or colour can change the meaning of the central mark. Submarine cables and pipelines, dumping grounds, restricted areas, and anchoring or fishing prohibitions may be shown with limits rather than a prominent point symbol. Trace the complete boundary and check its annotation before entering or anchoring.",{"section":57,"id":498,"title":499,"titles":500,"content":501,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-nautical-chart-symbols#tracks-routes-fairways-and-limits","Tracks, routes, fairways, and limits",[81],"INT 1 distinguishes recommended tracks, leading lines, traffic separation schemes, deep-water routes, fairways, precautionary areas, anchorage areas, and numerous regulated or restricted limits. Direction arrows and associated notes are part of the symbol. These lines are navigation information, not a promise of present clearance or unrestricted passage. Temporary changes, dredging, construction, traffic measures, or an altered aid to navigation may be published after a raster tile was produced.",{"section":57,"id":503,"title":504,"titles":505,"content":506,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-nautical-chart-symbols#lights-buoys-and-beacons","Lights, buoys, and beacons",[81],"Aid-to-navigation symbols encode several properties. The buoy or beacon shape, colours, topmark, number, light colour, rhythm, period, height, and range can all be significant. Cardinal, lateral, isolated-danger, safe-water, and special marks should be identified from the complete symbol and abbreviation. Light sectors and leading lights require careful reading of their arcs, colours, bearings, and characteristics. Do not rely on colour alone, particularly on a dim screen or where several symbols overlap. Kartverket notes that Norwegian charts mostly use international symbols, with a smaller number of Norwegian-specific symbols shown alongside their international equivalents in INT 1.",{"section":57,"id":508,"title":509,"titles":510,"content":511,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-nautical-chart-symbols#tides-currents-datums-and-clearances","Tides, currents, datums, and clearances",[81],"Depths, drying heights, bridge clearances, overhead cables, and other vertical values are tied to charted reference levels. Tide diamonds, current arrows, tidal-stream information, and tables have separate symbols and units. Check the chart title, notes, and datum before using any number. Norwegian official charts use WGS 84 horizontally. The vertical chart datum is Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT) from Utsira northward, including Svalbard. South of Utsira it is generally 20 cm below LAT, except in the Oslofjord north of Drøbaksundet, where it is 30 cm below LAT. Kartverket maintains these regional details in its Miscellaneous Notices to Mariners. Never transfer a depth or clearance between areas without checking the datum printed on the official chart. Actual depth and overhead clearance change with tide, weather, atmospheric pressure, waves, and local conditions. Consult Kartverket's current tide and water-level information, then apply a safe margin appropriate to the vessel and conditions.",{"section":57,"id":513,"title":514,"titles":515,"content":516,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-nautical-chart-symbols#ports-services-and-small-craft-information","Ports, services, and small-craft information",[81],"INT 1 also covers harbour structures, berths, moorings, anchorages, pilot services, rescue and communication facilities, marinas, and small-craft services. A symbol records charted information, not live opening hours, availability, capacity, or permission to use a facility.",{"section":57,"id":518,"title":519,"titles":520,"content":521,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-nautical-chart-symbols#keep-the-official-chart-corrected","Keep the official chart corrected",[81],"Kartverket revises Norwegian INT 1 when required, and publishes navigation-critical changes through Notices to Mariners (Efs). Before a voyage: Use an official chart or ENC at the appropriate scale.Identify unfamiliar marks in the current Norwegian INT 1.Read the chart's scale, projection, datum, edition, caution notes, and its paper-chart source diagram or ENC ZOC information.Check tide, water level, weather, and applicable regulations.Review and apply Kartverket's Notices to Mariners (Efs). If Lokimaps and current official navigation material differ, rely on the approved and corrected navigation source.",{"section":57,"id":90,"title":92,"titles":523,"content":524,"level":345},[],"Learn how to read terrain, contours, trails, SAC difficulty styling, ski runs, land cover, and amenities on Thunderforest Outdoors in Lokimaps. Topo (Worldwide) in Lokimaps uses Thunderforest Outdoors, a global map based on OpenStreetMap source data, with terrain rendering and cartography by Thunderforest. Thunderforest designed the style to prioritize hiking routes, ski runs, topographic features, natural features, and outdoor amenities. Thunderforest's public documentation explains the core design and lists the vector source's data families, but it does not present a fixed, exhaustive visual key for Outdoors. The style and source coverage evolve, and details vary with zoom and region. This page explains the stable reading principles documented by Thunderforest, but an unfamiliar symbol may still require checking the feature's label and current local information. At the closest app zoom levels, Lokimaps can enlarge the most detailed available raster tile. Larger lines or icons do not mean that more source detail has appeared.",{"section":57,"id":526,"title":527,"titles":528,"content":529,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fworldwide-topographic-map-symbols#terrain-elevation-and-contours","Terrain, elevation, and contours",[92],"Contours show lines of equal elevation, while hillshading gives a visual impression of slope direction and relief. Elevation colouring helps separate lower and higher terrain at a broad glance. Read all three together: close contour spacing signals steep terrain, but hillshade and background colour are visual aids rather than measured slope or avalanche information. Contour intervals, detail, and terrain coverage vary around the world. Zooming a tile beyond its intended level does not create more elevation data. Use labelled heights and a regional authoritative map when exact elevation or landform detail is critical.",{"section":57,"id":531,"title":532,"titles":533,"content":534,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fworldwide-topographic-map-symbols#land-cover-wetlands-and-built-areas","Land cover, wetlands, and built areas",[92],"Background colours and patterns differentiate categories such as forest, open land, farmland, water, wetlands, built-up areas, and buildings. Thunderforest notes that land use and buildings are deliberately subdued so trails, terrain, icons, and labels remain legible. These areas inherit the strengths and gaps of their underlying source data. A mapped forest boundary may be generalized or outdated, and a wetland fill does not tell you present water depth, seasonal flooding, or whether the ground is passable.",{"section":57,"id":536,"title":537,"titles":538,"content":539,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fworldwide-topographic-map-symbols#paths-hiking-routes-and-difficulty","Paths, hiking routes, and difficulty",[92],"Paths and outdoor routes receive stronger emphasis than on a general street map. A highlighted hiking route is laid over one or more physical paths, not necessarily a separate trail on the ground. Follow the underlying path connections and labels at junctions. Thunderforest uses the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) hiking scale when the source path has that difficulty information. As difficulty increases, path styling changes from black toward red, and the dashes become shorter until they appear as dots. This is a relative hiking-difficulty cue, not a complete risk assessment. Most importantly, no difficulty styling does not mean an easy trail. The source may have no SAC value, the classification may be incomplete, or the path may be shown only at another zoom. Weather, exposure, scrambling, river crossings, snow, navigation difficulty, and local closures need separate checks.",{"section":57,"id":541,"title":542,"titles":543,"content":544,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fworldwide-topographic-map-symbols#ski-runs-and-lifts","Ski runs and lifts",[92],"Outdoors prioritizes ski runs and lift infrastructure. Different lines and labels can identify pistes, Nordic routes, lifts, or related facilities where these have been mapped. Visibility and completeness vary by resort, country, and zoom level. Map presence does not confirm that a run is open, patrolled, groomed, safe, or permitted. Use the operator's current piste report and avalanche information.",{"section":57,"id":546,"title":547,"titles":548,"content":549,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fworldwide-topographic-map-symbols#natural-features-and-outdoor-amenities","Natural features and outdoor amenities",[92],"Labels and icons can identify peaks, passes, cliffs, caves, springs, viewpoints, shelters, campsites, accommodation, parking, and other amenities. Thunderforest's Outdoors map overview explains that trails, natural features, chairlifts, and accommodation are intentionally prioritized for small-screen use. A point on the map is not live operational information. Confirm access, opening, water quality, booking, and current condition with the responsible authority or operator.",{"section":57,"id":551,"title":552,"titles":553,"content":554,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fworldwide-topographic-map-symbols#roads-access-and-boundaries","Roads, access, and boundaries",[92],"Road hierarchy, tracks, paths, railways, waterways, and boundaries provide general context. Their appearance may differ from a national topographic map, and a mapped connection does not establish a legal right of access. Private roads, seasonal gates, protected areas, local rules, and temporary closures require current local sources.",{"section":57,"id":556,"title":557,"titles":558,"content":559,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fworldwide-topographic-map-symbols#why-symbols-and-coverage-vary","Why symbols and coverage vary",[92],"Thunderforest states that Outdoors is continuously updated from OpenStreetMap source material and through changes to its own map style. Its Outdoors vector-source documentation lists data families such as contours, hillshade, path properties, pistes, barriers, land use, natural features, routes, and points of interest. Whether a particular object appears depends on available source tags, rendering rules, and zoom. When a feature matters to safety or route feasibility: Zoom in and read its full label and surrounding terrain.Check whether difficulty styling is actually present, rather than assuming a plain path is easy.Compare with the relevant national mapping authority or another authoritative regional map.Verify current access, closures, weather, trail, snow, and facility conditions. Thunderforest's story behind Outdoors gives more background on the map's design. Because the style evolves, recent live map behaviour is more reliable than an old screenshot or unofficial legend.",{"section":57,"id":102,"title":104,"titles":561,"content":562,"level":345},[],"Compare every built-in Lokimaps map and native layer by coverage, provider, PRO access, offline support, and how it behaves in the app. Lokimaps currently includes ten built-in base maps, one built-in overlay layer, and a native flow for adding Oma riista hunting areas. Custom WMS, WMTS, and WFS sources are created by each user and therefore are not part of this fixed list. See Add custom maps and layers for those sources. For the basics of selecting, combining, showing, and organising items, see Maps and layers.",{"section":57,"id":564,"title":565,"titles":566,"content":567,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#how-map-access-works","How map access works",[104],"Road map and Satellite are available to everyone. During initial setup, one of four outdoor maps is included as your main map: Topo for Finland, Norway, Sweden, or Worldwide coverage. The included main map cannot be changed later. Lokimaps PRO unlocks every other built-in map and layer. Existing individual map purchases can also continue to provide access where applicable. An Offline area download entry below means that the map offers Download area  in its Actions  menu. A source may cache recently viewed data without offering a dependable prepared download, so only explicit area-download support is marked Yes.",{"section":57,"id":569,"title":570,"titles":571,"content":572,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#base-maps","Base maps",[104],"",{"section":57,"id":574,"title":575,"titles":576,"content":577,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#road-map-worldwide","Road map (Worldwide)",[104,570],"Provider: AppleAlso known as: Tiekartta, Apple StreetAccess: Available to everyoneOffline area download: NoCan combine with country maps: No Apple's general-purpose road map shows roads, places, and familiar street-map context around the world. Use it for addresses, urban orientation, and regions where specialist outdoor cartography is not needed.",3,{"section":57,"id":580,"title":581,"titles":582,"content":583,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#satellite-worldwide","Satellite (Worldwide)",[104,570],"Provider: AppleAlso known as: Satelliittikuva, Apple HybridAccess: Available to everyoneOffline area download: NoCan combine with country maps: No Apple's hybrid satellite style combines aerial or satellite imagery with labels and road context. It is useful for visually checking terrain, buildings, fields, and access roads. Imagery detail and age depend on Apple's coverage.",{"section":57,"id":585,"title":586,"titles":587,"content":588,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#topo-finland","Topo (Finland)",[104,570],"Provider: National Land Survey of FinlandAlso known as: MML or Maanmittauslaitos topographic mapAccess: Included when chosen as the main map, otherwise PROOffline area download: YesCan combine with compatible country maps: Yes The official Finnish topographic map shows detailed terrain, roads, paths, water features, buildings, and place names. It is the primary map for hiking, cycling, paddling, hunting, skiing, and outdoor navigation across Finland. See Finnish topographic map symbols for a practical guide to the colours, lines, and symbols, with a link to the complete official MML legend.",{"section":57,"id":590,"title":591,"titles":592,"content":593,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#aerial-imagery-finland","Aerial imagery (Finland)",[104,570],"Provider: National Land Survey of FinlandAlso known as: Ortokuva, MML or Maanmittauslaitos orthophotoAccess: PROOffline area download: YesCan combine with compatible country maps: Yes Official Finnish orthophotos show visible ground details such as buildings, roads, fields, forests, clearings, and shorelines. Use Aerial imagery to compare mapped features with the visible ground, while remembering that image dates vary by area.",{"section":57,"id":595,"title":596,"titles":597,"content":598,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#nautical-chart-finland","Nautical chart (Finland)",[104,570],"Provider: TraficomAlso known as: MerikarttaAccess: PROOffline area download: YesCan combine with country maps: No The Finnish nautical chart shows coastal areas, islands, fairways, depth areas, and nautical markings. It is useful as a geographic reference around the coast and archipelago. See Finnish nautical chart symbols for depth contours, rocks and foul areas, fairways, aids to navigation, and chart datums. This map is not for navigational use and does not meet the requirements for an official nautical chart. Use approved charts and equipment for navigation on the water.",{"section":57,"id":600,"title":601,"titles":602,"content":603,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#historic-maps-finland","Historic maps (Finland)",[104,570],"Provider: National Land Survey of Finland and Vanhatkartat.fiAlso known as: Historialliset kartat, old maps of FinlandAccess: PROOffline area download: NoCan combine with country maps: No Historic maps brings more than 30,000 georeferenced map sheets from 1863 to 2020 into the live Lokimaps view. Use the controls to choose the 20k, 100k, or 400k scale, select an available year, and adjust opacity. It is useful for finding old paths, roads, buildings, shorelines, and place names. Available sheets and years depend on the map centre. Zoom to level 12 or closer before expecting historic sheets to appear. The sheets load from the network and do not support Download area. There is no single legend for this collection because symbols changed between map series, scales, and years. When available, use the legend or marginal information printed on the original sheet, or documentation for that particular series.",{"section":57,"id":605,"title":606,"titles":607,"content":608,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#topo-norway","Topo (Norway)",[104,570],"Provider: KartverketAlso known as: Kartverket Turkart, NorgeskartAccess: Included when chosen as the main map, otherwise PROOffline area download: YesCan combine with compatible country maps: Yes This official Kartverket Turkart raster shows terrain, contour lines, trails, roads, water, and place names. It is useful for hiking, skiing, cycling, paddling, and other outdoor planning throughout Norway. See Norwegian topographic map symbols for a guide to Kartverket's multiscale Turkart cartography and the official symbol reference for its detailed N50 portion.",{"section":57,"id":610,"title":611,"titles":612,"content":613,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#nautical-chart-norway","Nautical chart (Norway)",[104,570],"Provider: KartverketAlso known as: SjøkartAccess: PROOffline area download: YesCan combine with country maps: No The Norwegian nautical chart shows coastal areas, islands, fairways, depth areas, and nautical markings from Kartverket's chart raster data. See Norwegian nautical chart symbols for guidance on depths, hazards, routes, lights, buoys, datums, and Norwegian INT 1. This map is not for navigational use. Use approved charts and equipment for navigation on the water.",{"section":57,"id":615,"title":616,"titles":617,"content":618,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#topo-sweden","Topo (Sweden)",[104,570],"Provider: LantmäterietAccess: Included when chosen as the main map, otherwise PROOffline area download: YesCan combine with compatible country maps: Yes The official Swedish topographic map includes detailed terrain, trails, roads, water, and outdoor information. It is useful for hiking, cycling, skiing, route planning, and close inspection across Sweden. See Swedish topographic map symbols for terrain, trail, mountain-route, shelter, and restriction symbols from Lantmäteriet's official legend.",{"section":57,"id":620,"title":621,"titles":622,"content":623,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#topo-worldwide","Topo (Worldwide)",[104,570],"Provider: Thunderforest, based on OpenStreetMap dataAlso known as: Thunderforest Outdoors, global outdoor mapAccess: Included when chosen as the main map, otherwise PROOffline area download: YesCan combine with country maps: No Worldwide Topo is a global outdoor map with trails, terrain context, natural features, and landmarks. It is the main-map choice for users who spend most of their time outside Finland, Norway, and Sweden. See Worldwide Topo map symbols for terrain, path difficulty, ski-run, land-cover, and amenity guidance, including the limits of a continuously changing global map.",{"section":57,"id":625,"title":626,"titles":627,"content":572,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#built-in-layers","Built-in layers",[104],{"section":57,"id":629,"title":630,"titles":631,"content":632,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#property-borders-finland","Property borders (Finland)",[104,626],"Provider: National Land Survey of Finland and municipalitiesAlso known as: Kiinteistörajat, kiinteistöjaotusAccess: PROOffline area download: NoUsage: Overlay above any base map Property borders displays Finnish property boundaries and labels as a vector layer. Select a property label to open available property details. The boundaries appear at map zoom level 12 or closer and refresh as the visible area changes. Visible boundary tiles are cached on demand, but there is no prepared Download area action and detailed property lookup uses an online service. Do not rely on complete property information while offline.",{"section":57,"id":634,"title":635,"titles":636,"content":572,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#native-specialist-layers","Native specialist layers",[104],{"section":57,"id":638,"title":639,"titles":640,"content":641,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#oma-riista-hunting-areas-finland","Oma riista hunting areas (Finland)",[104,635],"Provider: Oma riistaAccess: PROOffline storage: Yes, after the area is addedUsage: Overlay above any base map Oma riista areas are added by area identifier rather than chosen from the fixed catalog. Open Maps  from the map controls, select Add layer , then Add Oma riista area . Enter the identifier from your account at oma.riista.fi. Lokimaps downloads the boundary, area name, hunting club, hunting year, and available area metadata. The geometry is stored on the device for offline use and can be refreshed later. A display setting can dim the map outside your saved hunting areas; when disabled, the areas use a striped interior fill. When an area is added or refreshed, a unique app identifier and your IP address are sent to Oma riista as described inside the app. See Add and use Oma riista hunting areas for the full workflow, inside-or-outside status, display settings, refresh, and removal.",{"section":57,"id":643,"title":644,"titles":645,"content":646,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbuilt-in-maps-and-layers#find-another-source","Find another source",[104],"If the information you need is not in this catalog, ask Layer AI to find a compatible public source or add a WMS, WMTS, or WFS service manually. Review offline map support before depending on any map beyond network coverage.",{"section":57,"id":114,"title":116,"titles":648,"content":649,"level":345},[],"Download supported Lokimaps map areas to your iPhone or iPad, manage stored map data, and prepare for trips without mobile coverage. Offline downloads are available without PRO for supported maps that you already have access to. Not every map or layer can be downloaded, because availability depends on the map source and its technical capabilities.",{"section":57,"id":651,"title":652,"titles":653,"content":654,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Foffline-maps#download-an-area","Download an area",[116],"While online, open Maps  from the map controls and make sure the map you need is selected.Open the Actions  menu beside that map and choose Download area . If the action is missing, area downloads are not supported for that map.Pan and zoom the download view until the fixed selection frame covers your trip area. The current zoom becomes the least detailed downloaded zoom, and Lokimaps downloads through zoom level 16.Check the estimated size shown in the download button.Select Download and keep Lokimaps open until it reports that the download has finished. Lokimaps warns before downloading an estimate over 200 MB and does not start an estimate over 1 GB. Split a large trip into several smaller areas when needed. Previously downloaded regions are outlined in green in the download view.",{"section":57,"id":656,"title":657,"titles":658,"content":659,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Foffline-maps#check-your-offline-preparation","Check your offline preparation",[116],"Open the downloaded map and move around the planned area at the zoom levels you expect to use.Temporarily disable Wi-Fi and mobile data.Confirm that the map remains visible in the required area.Save important destinations under Bookmarks and import any required GPX files before leaving coverage. Place search, walking, cycling and car routing, location sharing, and other online services still require a network connection. Direct mode in Route Planner draws straight lines without requesting an online route.",{"section":57,"id":661,"title":662,"titles":663,"content":664,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Foffline-maps#manage-downloaded-map-data","Manage downloaded map data",[116],"Open Maps  from the map controls and open the Actions  menu beside the map.Choose Download settings .Review Cache size , enable Update maps automatically  if wanted, or select Clear cache  to reclaim storage. Automatic updates replace cached map tiles more than one month old when the device has an internet connection. Clearing a map's cache removes its stored tiles and downloaded-area records. Download the required areas again before your next offline trip. Custom WMS, WMTS, and WFS sources do not offer Download area, even when recently viewed imagery remains in a cache. For a complete comparison, see Built-in maps and layers. For selecting another map or overlay, see Maps and layers.",{"section":57,"id":127,"title":129,"titles":666,"content":667,"level":345},[],"Add public WMS and WMTS maps or WMS, WMTS, and WFS overlay layers to Lokimaps using a GetCapabilities or service URL. Lokimaps can add public map services that are not included in the built-in map catalog. You can use a WMS or WMTS source as a new base map, or place WMS, WMTS, and WFS data above another map as an overlay layer. If you know what you want but do not know the service URL, Layer AI can search and validate a source for you. For the distinction between your collection, selected maps, and visible overlay layers, start with Maps and layers.",{"section":57,"id":669,"title":670,"titles":671,"content":672,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#before-you-start","Before you start",[129],"Custom maps and layers require: An active Lokimaps PRO subscription.A public OGC WMS, WMTS, or WFS service reachable over HTTPS.Either the service's GetCapabilities URL or its base service URL.Permission to use the provider's data under its terms and licence. Do not paste passwords, bearer tokens, private API keys, or confidential service URLs into Lokimaps or Layer AI.",{"section":57,"id":674,"title":675,"titles":676,"content":677,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#choose-a-base-map-or-overlay-layer","Choose a base map or overlay layer",[129],"A base map replaces the current map background. Use this for complete cartography, imagery, geology, or another visual surface you want to navigate on. Custom base maps can use WMS or WMTS. An overlay layer is drawn above the current base map. Use this for trails, zoning, avalanche areas, boundaries, points of interest, routes, weather, or other focused data. Overlays can use WMS, WMTS, or WFS. WFS is always an overlay because it supplies geographic features rather than a complete rendered map.",{"section":57,"id":679,"title":680,"titles":681,"content":572,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#choose-wms-wmts-or-wfs","Choose WMS, WMTS, or WFS",[129],{"section":57,"id":683,"title":684,"titles":685,"content":686,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#wmts-web-map-tile-service","WMTS (Web Map Tile Service)",[129,680],"WMTS provides pre-rendered image tiles at fixed zoom levels. It is usually the best-performing choice for visual maps and imagery when a provider offers a Web Mercator tile matrix. Lokimaps can choose the service style, image format, TileMatrixSet, and service dimensions such as a date or map edition. It also shows the zoom range supplied by the service. WMTS can be used as a base map or an overlay.",{"section":57,"id":688,"title":689,"titles":690,"content":691,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#wms-web-map-service","WMS (Web Map Service)",[129,680],"WMS asks the provider to render a map image for each requested area. It is common for government open-data portals and thematic maps whose appearance changes by style, date, or selected dataset. Lokimaps can choose the style, image format, compatible coordinate reference system (CRS), tile size, and transparent background. WMS can be used as a base map or an overlay. It may feel slower than WMTS because the server renders images on demand.",{"section":57,"id":693,"title":694,"titles":695,"content":696,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#wfs-web-feature-service","WFS (Web Feature Service)",[129,680],"WFS returns inspectable vector features rather than map images. Lokimaps supports common Point, MultiPoint, LineString, MultiLineString, Polygon, and MultiPolygon geometry in compatible GeoJSON or GML\u002FXML output. Use WFS for trails, routes, facilities, boundaries, zones, and other objects whose attributes you want to inspect. You can choose the colour, opacity, line width, and whether every object gets an annotation. Select a feature on the map to show its callout, then open its details to read the attributes supplied by the provider. WFS loads features for the visible map area and uses a default limit of 500 features per refresh. If a dense layer looks incomplete, zoom closer and keep Show annotations disabled unless individual labels are genuinely useful.",{"section":57,"id":698,"title":699,"titles":700,"content":701,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#what-a-getcapabilities-url-is","What a GetCapabilities URL is",[129],"GetCapabilities is an XML description published by an OGC map service. It tells Lokimaps which named maps, layers, or feature types exist and how to request them, including compatible formats, coordinate systems, styles, dimensions, coverage, and zoom levels. A full address can look like this: https:\u002F\u002Fexample.org\u002Fgeoserver\u002Fwms?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities The shorter service address also works: https:\u002F\u002Fexample.org\u002Fgeoserver\u002Fwms Lokimaps tries to add the correct GetCapabilities parameters automatically. Paste the actual service endpoint, not a web map portal page, an individual tile URL, or an ArcGIS viewer URL.",{"section":57,"id":703,"title":704,"titles":705,"content":706,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#add-a-source-manually","Add a source manually",[129],"Open Maps  from the map controls.Under Maps, select Add map  for a background map. Under Layers, select Add layer  for an overlay.Select Add custom map  or Add custom layer .On the Layer AI screen, select add manually below the request field.Paste the GetCapabilities URL or service base URL.Select Fetch. Lokimaps tries WMTS, then WMS, then WFS until it finds a compatible service.Choose one or more maps, layers, or WFS feature types. Each selected item is added separately.Open an item's details to review its source options and live preview.Select Add maps or Add layers. The newly added base map becomes active. Newly added overlay layers are enabled above the current map.",{"section":57,"id":708,"title":709,"titles":710,"content":711,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#review-source-options-before-adding","Review source options before adding",[129],"The provider controls which choices are available: For WMTS, review the usage, style, image format, TileMatrixSet, dimensions, tile size, and zoom range.For WMS, review the usage, style, image format, CRS, tile size, and transparent-background setting.For WFS, review the feature type, colour, opacity, line width, annotations, attributes, and preview. Seeing source data in the preview confirms that the current device could request and draw the selected source at that moment. A blank preview can still leave Add available when the service metadata is compatible, so check the visible data before saving. A successful preview does not prove that the data is accurate, current, complete, legally reusable, or suitable for safety-critical navigation.",{"section":57,"id":713,"title":714,"titles":715,"content":716,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#manage-a-custom-source","Manage a custom source",[129],"Open the Actions  menu beside a custom map or layer to use the available actions: Rename  changes the label shown in your collection.Edit  reopens the source settings, preview, style, or WFS display options.Add layer from same source  opens the same service catalog so you can choose another item without pasting the URL again.The visibility  control shows or hides the item without deleting it.Collection editing lets you reorder or remove the item. Removing a custom item deletes its saved configuration and local map-tile cache from this device. It does not change anything at the third-party provider.",{"section":57,"id":718,"title":719,"titles":720,"content":721,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#offline-behavior","Offline behavior",[129],"Custom WMS and WMTS items cache imagery that you view, but they do not support Lokimaps Download area . WFS data is requested for the current viewport and kept only in a small temporary memory cache. Treat custom services as online features. Do not depend on a custom map or layer without network coverage, even if part of it was visible earlier. Use built-in maps with explicit offline support for prepared offline trips.",{"section":57,"id":723,"title":724,"titles":725,"content":726,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#supported-and-unsupported-services","Supported and unsupported services",[129],"Lokimaps supports public HTTPS OGC WMS, WMTS, and WFS services with compatible Web Mercator map output or supported WFS coordinate systems and feature formats. The custom-source flow does not currently support: XYZ or TMS tile templatesMapbox style URLsVector tile servicesArcGIS REST-only endpoints, although the same provider may expose a separate WMS, WMTS, or WFS endpointPrivate-network or localhost services are blocked by Layer AI and are not officially supported by manual setupServices that require a login, custom authentication, or a private API key",{"section":57,"id":728,"title":729,"titles":730,"content":731,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fcustom-maps-and-layers#troubleshoot-a-custom-map-or-layer","Troubleshoot a custom map or layer",[129],"If Fetch finds no available items, confirm that the address is an HTTPS WMS, WMTS, or WFS service and that its GetCapabilities document opens without signing in. A service may be valid but use an unsupported projection, format, tile matrix, or request method. If an added item is blank: Move inside the provider's documented coverage.Try another zoom level.Reopen Edit  and check the selected style, format, CRS, TileMatrixSet, or transparency.Confirm that the provider's service is still online.For a dense WFS layer, zoom closer and disable annotations. Third-party services can change or disappear without a Lokimaps update. If the source URL no longer works, remove it and add the provider's current service. See Troubleshooting and support if the same failure continues with several known public services.",{"section":57,"id":141,"title":143,"titles":733,"content":734,"level":345},[],"Use Lokimaps Layer AI to find, validate, preview, and add compatible public WMS, WMTS, and WFS maps and layers. Layer AI is the AI Agent in Lokimaps. It searches for public WMS, WMTS, and WFS sources, validates technical compatibility, and lets you preview one concrete map or layer before you decide to add it. Layer AI is deliberately focused on maps and geographic layers. It is not a general-purpose chatbot, and it never silently adds a source to your collection. If maps, layers, and visibility controls are new to you, read Maps and layers first.",{"section":57,"id":736,"title":737,"titles":738,"content":739,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#what-layer-ai-does","What Layer AI does",[143],"For a specific request, Layer AI can: Search the public web, prioritising official mapping agencies, government and municipal open data, parks, weather and avalanche services, trail sources, nautical data, cadastral services, and other authoritative providers.Find a public HTTPS WMS, WMTS, or WFS service endpoint.Read and validate the service's GetCapabilities document.Check compatible coordinate systems, formats, request URLs, tile matrices, and available layer or feature identifiers.Suggest one exact, addable item with its provider, protocol, usage, identifier, and a short explanation.Open a fresh preview on your device before Add becomes available. For inspectable trails, points, routes, boundaries, and zones, the agent prefers WFS when a compatible feature type exists. WMS or WMTS is used when rendered map imagery is a better fit or no compatible WFS is available.",{"section":57,"id":741,"title":742,"titles":743,"content":744,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#open-layer-ai","Open Layer AI",[143],"Layer AI is available with Lokimaps PRO. Open Maps  from the map controls.Select Add map  if you want a new background map, or Add layer  if you want information above the current map.Select Add custom map  or Add custom layer .Enter what you want, or select one of the suggested requests.Select Ask. The screen shows progress while the agent is thinking, searching the web, validating findings, or preparing a suggestion. You can stop a response and refine the request at any time.",{"section":57,"id":746,"title":747,"titles":748,"content":749,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#write-a-useful-request","Write a useful request",[143],"Include these details when they matter: Area: country, municipality, park, route, or “near me”Theme: trails, geology, zoning, avalanche terrain, fire pits, property data, imagery, or another datasetRole: a complete base map or an overlay above the current mapProvider: an official agency, municipality, or named open-data portal when you have a preferenceData type: ask for WFS when you want to select objects and read their attributes Useful requests include: “Find official hiking trails near Tromsø. Prefer a WFS layer with inspectable features.”“Find an up-to-date geological base map for Iceland.”“Find the City of Helsinki zoning plan as an overlay.”“Find a WFS layer for fire pits around Oulu.”“Find an avalanche terrain layer for Norway.”“What compatible layers are available from this provider?”“I have this open-data page. Can you find its WMS, WMTS, or WFS service?” If the area or theme is missing, the agent asks one concise clarification question before searching.",{"section":57,"id":751,"title":752,"titles":753,"content":754,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#choose-between-matching-layers-or-feature-types","Choose between matching layers or feature types",[143],"One service can publish dozens of similarly named layers. If several compatible choices could satisfy the request, Layer AI lists the relevant names and asks you to choose rather than guessing. Reply with the exact option you want, or explain the distinction that matters. For example: “Use the maintained winter trails, not the proposed routes,” or “I need municipality boundaries, not regional boundaries.” For a very large service catalog, the agent may only see a subset of compatible entries. Use manual source setup to browse the service directly when the wanted item is not offered.",{"section":57,"id":756,"title":757,"titles":758,"content":759,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#how-a-suggestion-is-validated","How a suggestion is validated",[143],"Layer AI must complete two server-side checks before showing an addable suggestion: It validates that the public HTTPS GetCapabilities address responds with the expected WMS, WMTS, or WFS document and contains technically compatible items.It validates that the suggested layer identifier exactly matches one of those compatible items. When you select Preview , Lokimaps fetches the capabilities document again on the device and confirms that the exact item still exists. This protects against invented URLs, mismatched identifiers, and stale search results. Validation proves technical compatibility at that moment. It does not verify the provider's accuracy, update schedule, authority, licence, completeness, or suitability for navigation.",{"section":57,"id":761,"title":762,"titles":763,"content":764,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#preview-and-add-a-suggestion","Preview and add a suggestion",[143],"An accepted suggestion card shows the proposed title, whether it is a base map or layer, the WMS, WMTS, or WFS protocol, the provider hostname, the exact layer identifier, and why it matches. Check the provider hostname and exact layer identifier on the suggestion card.Select Preview .Inspect the preview and source settings.Review the style, format, coordinate system, tile matrix, transparency, or WFS display options that apply.For WMS or WMTS, confirm whether it should be a Base map or Layer. WFS is always a layer.Select Add. Only this final action saves and enables the source. For all available settings, see Add custom maps and layers.",{"section":57,"id":766,"title":767,"titles":768,"content":769,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#when-layer-ai-recommends-a-built-in-map","When Layer AI recommends a built-in map",[143],"Before searching, the agent checks the complete built-in map and layer catalog. If the request strongly matches a native item, such as Finnish Topo, Finnish Property borders, Finnish Historic maps, or an Oma riista area, it recommends that flow instead of creating a duplicate custom source. Built-in sources can provide better caching, offline downloads, year and opacity controls, tap details, subscription handling, or other app-specific behavior that a generic OGC source cannot reproduce. For broad requests such as “find hiking trails,” the agent continues searching rather than treating a general outdoor base map as the answer.",{"section":57,"id":771,"title":772,"titles":773,"content":774,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#supported-sources-and-limitations","Supported sources and limitations",[143],"Layer AI supports only public HTTPS OGC WMS, WMTS, and WFS services. It cannot add XYZ or TMS templates, Mapbox styles, vector tiles, ArcGIS REST-only endpoints, localhost or private-network services, private services, or sources requiring a password or private API key. The agent can fail to find a result when a provider offers only a web viewer, a downloadable file, an unsupported projection, an authenticated API, or no public OGC service. In that case, provide the agency name or source webpage, narrow the area, or ask for a different data type. Requests are rate-limited to keep the shared service reliable. If the service asks you to try again later, wait a moment before continuing.",{"section":57,"id":776,"title":777,"titles":778,"content":779,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#privacy-and-safe-use","Privacy and safe use",[143],"Layer AI sends the conversation to the Lokimaps backend and its AI service provider. If Lokimaps has a recent device location, the app may reverse-geocode it on the device and send only an approximate country, city, optional region, and timezone to improve requests such as “near me.” This automatically supplied location context does not include latitude or longitude, although anything you type into the conversation is sent as message text. The backend supplies a pseudonymous app user identifier to the AI gateway and provider for request routing and safety, and provider-side request storage is enabled. When Layer AI produces a validated suggestion, Lokimaps separately records the latest question, the suggested service and layer details, a hashed user identifier, app context, and the approximate location fields when available. This event records that the agent produced a suggestion, not that you selected Add. Do not enter passwords, access tokens, private API keys, private service addresses, or other secrets. The Lokimaps backend contacts candidate providers during AI validation, and your device contacts a provider when you open Preview  and after you add the source. Those requests expose normal network metadata and the requested map areas to the provider, so its terms and privacy practices also apply. See the Lokimaps privacy policy for current processing terms.",{"section":57,"id":781,"title":782,"titles":783,"content":784,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flayer-ai#check-every-result","Check every result",[143],"AI can make mistakes, and technically valid geographic data can still be outdated or unsuitable for your purpose. Before relying on a suggestion: Confirm the provider and licence.Check the documented coverage and update date.Inspect several locations and zoom levels.Compare safety-critical information with an authoritative source.Keep an appropriate offline map available when heading beyond network coverage. If previews repeatedly fail or an added source is blank, follow custom-source troubleshooting or contact support through Troubleshooting and support.",{"section":57,"id":153,"title":155,"titles":786,"content":787,"level":345},[],"Add an Oma riista hunting area to Lokimaps by area identifier, use its offline boundary and status, change its display, refresh its metadata, or remove it. Lokimaps can add hunting-area boundaries from Oma riista as native overlay layers. Adding, refreshing, and displaying these areas requires Lokimaps PRO.",{"section":57,"id":789,"title":670,"titles":790,"content":791,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Foma-riista#before-you-start",[155],"You need: An active PRO subscriptionThe area identifier from your account at oma.riista.fiA network connection while adding or refreshing the area When an area is added or refreshed, a unique app identifier and your IP address are sent to Oma riista. The app explains this processing and links to the relevant privacy notice before you add the area. The downloaded boundary and metadata are stored on your device for offline use.",{"section":57,"id":793,"title":794,"titles":795,"content":796,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Foma-riista#add-an-area","Add an area",[155],"Open Maps  from the map controls.Scroll to Layers and select Add layer .Select Add Oma riista area .Enter the Area identifier from Oma riista.Select Add area. Lokimaps downloads the geometry and available metadata, adds the area to your Layers collection, and enables it on the map. The same area cannot be added twice.",{"section":57,"id":798,"title":799,"titles":800,"content":801,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Foma-riista#read-the-area-on-the-map","Read the area on the map",[155],"The boundary is drawn in green above the selected base map. Tap inside the boundary to show the area name, tap the name again to show its callout, then select the callout's Info  button to open the area details. While at least one Oma riista area is visible and Lokimaps has a location, a status control appears in the upper-left corner. It shows whether you are inside a visible area and the distance to the relevant or nearest boundary. Select the status control to open that area's details. The details can include: Area name and identifierHunting club and hunting yearTotal and water areaThe date saved in Oma riista and the date downloaded to the deviceWhether your recent position is inside or outside, plus distance to the boundary Location status depends on the device's latest position and the downloaded boundary. It is a convenience, not proof of legal access or permission to hunt.",{"section":57,"id":803,"title":804,"titles":805,"content":806,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Foma-riista#change-how-areas-are-shown","Change how areas are shown",[155],"Open an area's details from its Actions  menu, boundary, or status control. Use Show on map to enable or disable that individual area.Dim the map outside the areas applies to all saved Oma riista areas. When enabled, the map outside all visible areas is darkened. When disabled, the area interiors use a light striped fill instead. If several areas are visible, the outside dimming mask treats their combined interiors as the undimmed area.",{"section":57,"id":808,"title":809,"titles":810,"content":811,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Foma-riista#refresh-or-remove-an-area","Refresh or remove an area",[155],"Select Refresh details  in the area's details when Oma riista geometry or metadata may have changed. Refreshing needs a network connection and replaces the locally stored copy. Select Delete area  to remove the area, its downloaded geometry, and its metadata from this device. Hiding an area with Show on map does not delete it. For every fixed built-in map and layer, see Built-in maps and layers. For general layer selection and organisation, see Maps and layers.",{"section":57,"id":164,"title":166,"titles":813,"content":814,"level":345},[],"Learn how to read contours, terrain, wetlands, roads, paths, buildings, water features, and boundaries on the Finnish topographic map in Lokimaps. The Topo (Finland) map in Lokimaps uses the National Land Survey of Finland's official topographic cartography. The main authoritative reference is MML's 2025 topographic map legend, which explains symbols at scales from 1:10,000 to 1:250,000 in Finnish, Swedish, and English. This page explains how the main symbol families fit together. Keep the official legend open when you need to identify the exact line, fill, or point symbol on the map.",{"section":57,"id":816,"title":817,"titles":818,"content":819,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-topographic-map-symbols#detail-changes-as-you-zoom","Detail changes as you zoom",[166],"The map is not one drawing enlarged and reduced. MML's raster topographic map series uses products prepared for different scales. Smaller roads, individual buildings, auxiliary contours, vegetation details, and minor place names appear only at closer zoom levels. At wider views, features are simplified or omitted to keep the map readable. If an important feature is missing, zoom in before concluding that it is absent. If the same feature looks different after zooming, interpret the symbol used at the current scale. At the closest app zoom levels, Lokimaps enlarges the most detailed available raster tile. Lines and text become larger, but no new survey detail appears. A sharp-looking enlarged symbol is still limited by the source scale.",{"section":57,"id":821,"title":822,"titles":823,"content":824,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-topographic-map-symbols#contours-and-landforms","Contours and landforms",[166],"Brown contour lines join points of equal elevation. Closely spaced lines indicate a steep slope, while wide spacing indicates gentler terrain. Index contours are emphasized to help count elevation, ordinary contours fill the intervals between them, and auxiliary contours may show smaller landforms at the most detailed scales. The vertical interval changes by scale, so use labelled heights and the official legend instead of assuming one fixed interval. Additional terrain symbols identify cliffs, steep slopes, exposed bedrock, boulders, rocky ground, sand, gravel or extraction areas, and measured height points. A closed contour can describe a hill or a depression, depending on its markings and the surrounding elevations. Shading or a rock symbol does not by itself tell you whether a place is passable.",{"section":57,"id":826,"title":827,"titles":828,"content":829,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-topographic-map-symbols#forest-open-ground-fields-and-wetlands","Forest, open ground, fields, and wetlands",[166],"Background colours and patterns distinguish broad land-cover types, including forest, fields, gardens, meadows, open ground, brush, and developed areas. At closer scales, the legend also differentiates coniferous, deciduous, mixed, and scrub vegetation. Wetlands have their own blue patterns. The symbols distinguish combinations such as open or forested marsh and easier or more difficult terrain, as well as paludified ground. Treat these as mapped land-cover classifications, not a live statement about water depth, ice strength, seasonal flooding, or safe passage.",{"section":57,"id":831,"title":832,"titles":833,"content":834,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-topographic-map-symbols#roads-tracks-paths-and-crossings","Roads, tracks, paths, and crossings",[166],"Road symbols distinguish motorways and different road classes from smaller roads, access drives, tractor tracks, and paths. Width or prominence on the map expresses the mapped class, not a guarantee that a vehicle may use it. Barriers, gates, tunnels, bridges, ferries, winter roads, bicycle paths, duckboards, and railway features use separate symbols. For route planning, check the exact official symbol when a line could be a road, track, path, power line, administrative boundary, or watercourse. Access rights, closures, maintenance, snow, and surface condition are not encoded comprehensively in the topographic map.",{"section":57,"id":836,"title":837,"titles":838,"content":839,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-topographic-map-symbols#water-and-shoreline-features","Water and shoreline features",[166],"Blue features include lakes and sea areas, rivers, streams, ditches, springs, wells, rapids, dams, and flow direction. Shoreline styles can distinguish a surveyed edge from a diffuse or uncertain shore, a flood area, or land exposed by a receding shoreline, called reliction in the official legend. Small rocks, water holes, basins, docks, reeds, and channels have separate point or area symbols. Some coastal context, boat routes, buoys, and depth information can appear on the topographic map. It is not a nautical chart. For travel on the water, switch to an appropriate nautical chart and use approved, current navigation material.",{"section":57,"id":841,"title":842,"titles":843,"content":844,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-topographic-map-symbols#buildings-structures-and-landmarks","Buildings, structures, and landmarks",[166],"Building colours and shapes distinguish residential buildings, holiday homes, commercial and public buildings, and other structures. The legend also covers churches and cemeteries, towers, chimneys, masts, wind turbines, observation towers, monuments, ski lifts, fences, gates, campfire sites, and historic industrial features such as tar pits. A symbol normally indicates the mapped feature type, not whether a facility is open, maintained, publicly accessible, or still present. Check current local information for shelters, crossings, services, and restricted sites.",{"section":57,"id":846,"title":847,"titles":848,"content":849,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-topographic-map-symbols#boundaries-and-protected-areas","Boundaries and protected areas",[166],"Different line styles identify national, regional, municipal, protected-area, and special-area boundaries. A boundary line can overlap a road, shore, or other linear feature, so inspect the pattern and nearby labels carefully. The official MML legend also includes cadastral symbols. In Lokimaps, detailed property boundaries belong to the separate Property borders (Finland) layer and appear only when that layer is enabled. They are not part of the Topo base map alone.",{"section":57,"id":851,"title":852,"titles":853,"content":854,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ffinland-topographic-map-symbols#a-practical-reading-order","A practical reading order",[166],"When planning a route, read the map in layers: Use contours, cliffs, rock, and wetlands to understand the terrain.Identify the exact road, track, path, bridge, or ferry symbols.Check watercourses, shorelines, and likely crossing points.Look for buildings and landmarks that can confirm your position.Inspect protected or special-area boundaries and verify current access rules separately.Zoom in and compare the unfamiliar symbol with the full official MML legend. MML's official legend warns that information in the underlying topographic database is updated at intervals of 5 to 10 years and that one map sheet can combine information from different years. Map data and cartography are updated over time. MML publishes service notices about topographic-map changes, so the current official legend takes precedence over older printed keys or screenshots.",{"section":57,"id":176,"title":178,"titles":856,"content":857,"level":345},[],"Learn how to read terrain, contours, trails, mountain routes, shelters, roads, wetlands, and restrictions on Sweden's official topographic map. Topo (Sweden) in Lokimaps uses the colour Web Mercator edition (Farg_05m_mercator) of Lantmäteriet's downloadable Topografisk webbkarta raster. Lokimaps serves a synchronized copy of that raster as tiles rather than requesting Lantmäteriet's live map service. Lantmäteriet publishes a bilingual Swedish and English legend for the map. The current legend is version 2.13, dated 27 May 2026. This guide groups the symbols by what they tell you in the field, with extra attention to the mountain and outdoor information that makes this map particularly useful.",{"section":57,"id":859,"title":860,"titles":861,"content":862,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols#the-legend-changes-with-scale","The legend changes with scale",[178],"Topografisk webbkarta combines information from several sources and changes its presentation by scale. Lantmäteriet's legend shows separate examples around 1:10,000, 1:20,000, 1:50,000, 1:100,000, 1:250,000, and 1:800,000. Some information does not appear in every scale range. Zoom in before deciding that a trail, building, wetland, restriction, or minor place name is absent. Contour intervals and the visual emphasis of roads and boundaries also change. The official legend example nearest your current scale is the right one to consult. At the closest app zoom levels, Lokimaps enlarges the most detailed source tile. This makes symbols easier to see but does not reveal additional objects. Lantmäteriet says the downloadable raster is updated every three months. Lokimaps refreshes its synchronized copy separately, so a newly revised official legend can precede the corresponding tiles in the app.",{"section":57,"id":864,"title":865,"titles":866,"content":867,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols#contours-mountains-and-ground-cover","Contours, mountains, and ground cover",[178],"Contour lines show the shape and steepness of the ground. Tight spacing means a steep slope and broad spacing means gentler terrain. The current legend specifies a 5 m vertical interval around 1:10,000, 5 m around 1:20,000 except 10 m in mountain areas, 10 m around 1:50,000, and 25 m around 1:100,000. These are examples for the stated scale, so first match the app view to the nearest legend section. Measured height points and triangulation stations provide spot elevations. Land-cover fills distinguish coniferous and deciduous forest, subalpine birch forest, alpine tundra, open land, arable land, orchards, and developed areas. Wetland patterns distinguish firm from wet marsh. Glaciers have their own fill and contours. These classifications are useful planning context, but they do not report current snow, ice, flood, vegetation density, or surface conditions.",{"section":57,"id":869,"title":870,"titles":871,"content":872,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols#roads-tracks-paths-and-railways","Roads, tracks, paths, and railways",[178],"The road hierarchy runs from motorways and main roads through small country roads and local streets. Separate line styles identify tractor tracks, park or cycle ways, footpaths, illuminated tracks, tunnels, and railways. Symbols can also mark barriers, turning places, rest areas, bridges, fords, ferries, lifts, pipelines, and power lines. Do not infer permission or condition from line weight alone. A mapped road or path may be private, seasonally closed, unmaintained, or unsuitable for your mode of travel. Match the exact symbol in the legend, then check current local rules.",{"section":57,"id":874,"title":875,"titles":876,"content":877,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols#hiking-winter-and-mountain-routes","Hiking, winter, and mountain routes",[178],"The official legend distinguishes several route types that can look similar at first glance: Marked summer trails.Combined summer and winter trails.Marked winter trails.Snowmobile routes, including categories with different regulatory meanings.Recommended but unmarked routes and paths that may be difficult to follow.Reindeer routes, fences, and corrals.Boat or rowing passages and places where equipment may need to be carried. Use the exact legend entry before following a dashed route across mountain terrain. A line on the map does not guarantee visible markings, a maintained surface, safe ice, a bridge, or suitable weather.",{"section":57,"id":879,"title":880,"titles":881,"content":882,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols#cabins-shelters-and-outdoor-services","Cabins, shelters, and outdoor services",[178],"Topografisk webbkarta has specific symbols for facilities such as mountain stations or lodges, tourist cabins, rest cabins, lean-tos, Sami cots, camping and bathing places, parking, guest harbours, emergency telephones, and rescue facilities. Bridges, footbridges, and fords use different symbols. These point symbols help with orientation and planning, but the map does not guarantee opening hours, booking availability, drinking water, emergency supplies, or current condition. Confirm critical facilities with their operator.",{"section":57,"id":884,"title":885,"titles":886,"content":887,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols#water-shorelines-and-hazards","Water, shorelines, and hazards",[178],"Water symbols cover shorelines, diffuse shores, streams, ditches, rapids, waterfalls, dams, locks, flow direction, jetties, quays, rocks, shoals, and depth values. Some fine hydrographic details appear only at close scales. The topographic map provides useful coastal and inland-water context, but it is not an approved nautical chart.",{"section":57,"id":889,"title":890,"titles":891,"content":892,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols#buildings-landmarks-and-cultural-features","Buildings, landmarks, and cultural features",[178],"At close scales, the map distinguishes individual buildings and broader built-up areas. Point symbols identify churches, cemeteries, towers, masts, wind turbines, mines, ruins, ancient remains, cultural heritage sites, runways, shooting ranges, sports grounds, and other prominent objects. Use a landmark symbol to identify a feature, not to assume public access. Historic, industrial, military, and utility sites may be restricted or unsafe.",{"section":57,"id":894,"title":895,"titles":896,"content":897,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols#boundaries-and-restrictions","Boundaries and restrictions",[178],"The legend separates national, county, and municipal boundaries from national parks, nature reserves, wildlife or cultural protection areas, facility areas, military exercise and firing areas, and areas with restrictions on off-road vehicles, camping, or fires. This distinction matters: an administrative line is not an access restriction, while a protected or prohibited-area boundary may require you to check current regulations. Boundary information on a background map can also lag temporary decisions and local notices.",{"section":57,"id":899,"title":900,"titles":901,"content":902,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsweden-topographic-map-symbols#check-an-unfamiliar-symbol","Check an unfamiliar symbol",[178],"For the most reliable interpretation: Zoom to the level at which you will plan or travel.Decide whether the mark is terrain, transport, water, a facility, or a boundary.Find the corresponding scale section in Lantmäteriet's official Topografisk webbkarta legend.Verify current access, closures, fire restrictions, trail conditions, and facility status with the responsible authority or operator. The official legend is versioned and dated because the map style changes. Prefer the current Lantmäteriet document over an older paper-map key or third-party symbol list.",{"section":57,"id":188,"title":190,"titles":904,"content":905,"level":345},[],"Learn how to read contours, terrain, paths, roads, wetlands, buildings, and restrictions on Kartverket's multiscale Norwegian topographic map. Topo (Norway) in Lokimaps displays Kartverket's official Turkart WMTS layer, whose service identifier is toporaster. Kartverket documents this exact layer as a multiscale raster containing N50 through N2000 map bases plus N5. It is not one paper map enlarged across every zoom level. There is therefore no one visual key that describes every Lokimaps zoom level. Kartverket's official cache-service overview identifies the layer, and its service-structure description identifies the map bases it combines. For the detailed N50 part, use Kartverket's current N50 cartography register, which links to the full screen-cartography specification and a digital symbol viewer. An N50 symbol is not automatically the right key for an N250, N1000, N2000, or N5 view.",{"section":57,"id":907,"title":908,"titles":909,"content":910,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-topographic-map-symbols#what-changes-when-you-zoom","What changes when you zoom",[190],"At close zoom levels, the map can show small roads, paths, buildings, streams, height details, and local names. Wider views use progressively generalized map bases. Minor objects disappear, lines may be simplified, and a category may be drawn differently so that the map remains readable. Always inspect important terrain at the intended travel zoom. If a symbol changes or disappears, interpret it using the legend for the current map basis rather than assuming the underlying feature has changed. At the closest app zoom levels, Lokimaps enlarges the most detailed tile supplied by this layer. Enlarged lines and labels do not add survey detail or turn N50 cartography into a larger-scale map.",{"section":57,"id":912,"title":913,"titles":914,"content":915,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-topographic-map-symbols#contours-heights-and-steep-terrain","Contours, heights, and steep terrain",[190],"Contour lines connect equal elevations. Closely spaced lines indicate steep ground, and widely spaced lines indicate a gentler slope. Index, ordinary, and auxiliary contours use different emphasis. The official screen specification uses brown for terrain contours and blue for contours on glaciers, but the interval and amount of detail depend on scale. Spot heights, cliffs, exposed rock, scree or boulder areas, depressions, and other landform symbols add information that contour spacing alone cannot show. Do not treat a blank slope as flat, especially at a wider zoom where small features have been generalized away.",{"section":57,"id":917,"title":918,"titles":919,"content":920,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-topographic-map-symbols#paths-tracks-and-roads","Paths, tracks, and roads",[190],"The cartography distinguishes road classes, local and private roads, tractor roads, paths, marked trails, railways, tunnels, bridges, ferries, and other transport structures. In the detailed screen specification, marked and unmarked paths use distinct red line patterns. A marked trail is emphasized differently from a thinner unmarked path, and close-scale tractor-road information is separate again. The symbol describes a mapped class, not the current condition. It does not guarantee a right of vehicle access, winter maintenance, a visible trail, an intact bridge, or safe passage. Where two red or dashed lines are easy to confuse, compare them in the N50 digital legend before planning around them.",{"section":57,"id":922,"title":923,"titles":924,"content":925,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-topographic-map-symbols#water-marsh-snow-and-glaciers","Water, marsh, snow, and glaciers",[190],"Blue is used for lakes, rivers, streams, shorelines, and related water features. Different line styles separate a stream from a ditch or another narrow watercourse. Rapids, waterfalls, dams, springs, and crossings have their own symbols. Marsh is shown with blue line patterns over the underlying terrain. Snowfields and glaciers have separate fills, and glacier contours are distinguished from land contours. These symbols describe mapped features, not live water levels, snow bridges, ice strength, seasonal flooding, or how difficult the surface will be to cross.",{"section":57,"id":927,"title":928,"titles":929,"content":930,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-topographic-map-symbols#land-cover-and-built-features","Land cover and built features",[190],"Area fills differentiate forest, open ground, cultivated land, marsh, built-up areas, bare rock, snow, and water. Generalization is especially noticeable here: an individual patch at close zoom may become part of a broader land-cover area at wider zoom. Buildings range from individual structures at detailed scales to generalized settlement areas at smaller scales. Other symbols identify churches, cabins, towers, masts, power lines, industrial sites, and prominent landmarks. A cabin or service symbol does not confirm that the place is open, staffed, unlocked, or equipped.",{"section":57,"id":932,"title":933,"titles":934,"content":935,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-topographic-map-symbols#boundaries-protected-areas-and-restrictions","Boundaries, protected areas, and restrictions",[190],"Kartverket's base datasets include administrative areas and restriction areas as separate themes. Different line or area styles can represent the national boundary, other administrative divisions, protected areas, military or other restricted land, and facility limits. Do not confuse a boundary with a path. Follow the line pattern and labels, then check the current rules with the responsible authority. Temporary closures, avalanche warnings, hunting activity, and local access decisions are not comprehensively represented on the static topographic map.",{"section":57,"id":937,"title":938,"titles":939,"content":940,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnorway-topographic-map-symbols#a-reliable-way-to-identify-a-mark","A reliable way to identify a mark",[190],"Zoom in until the feature and nearby labels are clear.Classify it broadly as terrain, water, transport, building, or boundary information.For a feature drawn in the detailed N50 part of the layer, open Kartverket's current N50 cartography entry and use Vis digital kartografi for a searchable visual key.If you are looking at a wide regional view, remember that the N50 symbol may have been simplified or omitted by a smaller-scale map base.Verify critical access, weather, avalanche, trail, bridge, and cabin information with a current specialist source. The map is excellent for understanding terrain and finding mapped routes, but a symbol should always be combined with scale, surrounding contours, and current field information.",{"section":204,"id":200,"title":202,"titles":942,"content":943,"level":345},[],"Create and edit waypoint routes in Lokimaps using direct lines or PRO walking, cycling, and car routing, then save routes under Bookmarks. Route Planner builds a route from waypoints you place on the map. Direct mode connects them with straight lines. With PRO and a network connection, walking, cycling, and car modes can calculate a route along trails and roads.",{"section":204,"id":945,"title":946,"titles":947,"content":948,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Froute-planner#create-a-route","Create a route",[202],"Open Route Planner  from the bottom toolbar.Choose a routing mode: Direct , Walking , Cycling , or Car . Start with Direct if you want complete manual control or are preparing for offline use.Tap the map or the centre crosshair  to add the first waypoint, then continue tapping to extend the route.Drag a waypoint to refine its position. Touch and hold an existing route segment to insert a waypoint on that segment.Use the waypoint list to focus or delete a point. Each row shows the distance from the previous waypoint and the total distance from the start when those values are available.Use Undo  and Redo  when you need to reverse an edit.Open the Actions  menu and choose Save to bookmarks . Enter a route name, choose a folder under Bookmarks, and decide whether it should remain visible on the map. The planner shows the route distance and, with at least three waypoints, the enclosed area. Your current unsaved planner draft is retained when the planner or app is closed. Use Clear route  from the Actions  menu when you want to remove every waypoint from that draft.",{"section":204,"id":950,"title":951,"titles":952,"content":572,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Froute-planner#understand-routing-modes","Understand routing modes",[202],{"section":204,"id":954,"title":955,"titles":956,"content":957,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Froute-planner#direct","Direct",[202,951],"Direct mode draws a straight line between consecutive waypoints. It does not check paths, roads, access restrictions, terrain, or hazards. Direct routing remains available without PRO and does not require the online routing service.",{"section":204,"id":959,"title":960,"titles":961,"content":962,"level":578},"\u002Fdocs\u002Froute-planner#walking-cycling-and-car","Walking, cycling, and car",[202,951],"These modes are available with Lokimaps PRO and a network connection. They use an online service to calculate geometry between waypoints. A calculated route is a planning aid, so compare it with current maps, signs, closures, conditions, and local rules. You can also change the routing mode for an individual segment from the destination waypoint's actions. Editing a segment's routing mode requires PRO, including when the route was created earlier.",{"section":204,"id":964,"title":965,"titles":966,"content":967,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Froute-planner#edit-a-route-planner-route","Edit a Route Planner route",[202],"Routes originally saved from Route Planner keep the planning information needed for later editing. Imported GPX routes and older saved routes may not have it. Open Bookmarks  from the bottom toolbar.Select a route originally saved from Route Planner.Choose Edit in Route Planner  when that action is available.Add, move, or remove waypoints as needed.Select Save to update the route, or Save as new route  to keep the original. Route Planner does not provide turn-by-turn guidance. Navigation is a separate straight-line tool for following one destination.",{"section":204,"id":213,"title":215,"titles":969,"content":970,"level":345},[],"Use Lokimaps Navigation for straight-line guidance and live distance to one selected map point, search result, or bookmark. Navigation guides you toward one destination. It draws a straight line from your current or starting position to the destination and updates the remaining straight-line distance as your location changes. It is not turn-by-turn navigation and it does not follow a road, trail, planned route, or saved route.",{"section":204,"id":972,"title":973,"titles":974,"content":975,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnavigation#start-from-a-point-on-the-map","Start from a point on the map",[215],"Move the map until the centre crosshair  is over the destination.Open the Pointer  tool to mark that position.Open the pointer details.Select Navigate here .",{"section":204,"id":977,"title":978,"titles":979,"content":980,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnavigation#start-from-search-or-a-bookmark","Start from search or a bookmark",[215],"Find a destination with Search, or open a saved place under Bookmarks.Open the result or bookmark details.Select Navigate  or Navigate here . Starting another destination while Navigation is active asks you to confirm the change.",{"section":204,"id":982,"title":983,"titles":984,"content":985,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fnavigation#use-the-navigation-display","Use the navigation display",[215],"Follow the destination flag and the straight line on the map.Read Distance to destination in the navigation widget.Tap the widget to fit the current navigation line and destination on screen.Use Close  in the widget to stop Navigation, then confirm Stop. Location access must be enabled for the distance to update from your current position. An active navigation line is restored after Lokimaps is reopened and remains active until you stop it or choose another destination. You can also set your current position as a persistent base camp and later navigate back to it. To create a multi-point line or calculate a route along supported trails and roads, use Route Planner instead.",{"section":204,"id":224,"title":226,"titles":987,"content":988,"level":345},[],"Find places, addresses, coordinates, and Finnish property identifiers in Lokimaps, manage recent searches, and copy or format map coordinates. Search can find places and addresses or move the map to a supported coordinate. Search results can become a navigation destination or a saved bookmark.",{"section":204,"id":990,"title":991,"titles":992,"content":993,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsearch-and-coordinates#find-a-place-or-address","Find a place or address",[226],"Select the Search  control near the upper-right corner of the map.Enter a place name, address, or point of interest.Select a suggestion to show its result on the map.Open the result details to Navigate  or Save as bookmark . Place and address search uses an online service. Results are influenced by the map area currently in view, so move closer to the relevant region if a name is ambiguous. Successful searches appear under Recents the next time Search opens. Swipe one recent search to delete it, or select Clear above the list to remove all recents.",{"section":204,"id":995,"title":996,"titles":997,"content":998,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsearch-and-coordinates#find-a-finnish-property-identifier","Find a Finnish property identifier",[226],"Search recognises Finnish property identifiers written as 14 digits or in the standard four-part hyphenated or space-separated form. Select the Property identifier (Finland) result to request the property's location and centre the map on it. This lookup needs a network connection but does not require PRO.",{"section":204,"id":1000,"title":1001,"titles":1002,"content":1003,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsearch-and-coordinates#search-by-coordinate","Search by coordinate",[226],"Open Search  from the map controls.Paste or type the coordinate, including zone or direction letters when the format requires them.Select the coordinate result to centre the map and place a marker. Lokimaps recognises these coordinate systems: WGS84 decimal degrees (DD)WGS84 degrees and decimal minutes (DDM)WGS84 degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS)ETRS-TM35FINMGRSUTM \u002F ETRS89SWEREF 99 TMETRS-GK, with the zone includedYKJ (Finnish Uniform Coordinate System) Keep latitude and longitude, or northing and easting, in the order shown by the source. Include format labels and zone information when possible to reduce ambiguity.",{"section":204,"id":1005,"title":1006,"titles":1007,"content":1008,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fsearch-and-coordinates#read-and-copy-a-map-coordinate","Read and copy a map coordinate",[226],"Position the centre crosshair  over the required point.Open Pointer , then open its details.Select the coordinate row to copy the displayed value. The pointer details also show straight-line distance, direction, estimated elevation, and a resolved address when the required location and online services are available. You can navigate to the point or save it as a bookmark from the same screen. To change the displayed format, open Settings , find Units, and select Coordinate system. The same setting is used in map details and saved items. See Navigation for following a result or Bookmarks for saving it.",{"section":204,"id":239,"title":241,"titles":1010,"content":1011,"level":345},[],"Use the Lokimaps Measure Tool with a two-finger gesture, adjust measurement endpoints, and choose distance and angle units. The Measure Tool shows the straight-line distance and direction between two points. It is available directly on the map, so you do not need to enter a separate measuring mode.",{"section":204,"id":1013,"title":1014,"titles":1015,"content":1016,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmeasure-tool#create-a-measurement","Create a measurement",[241],"Place two fingers on the map at the start and end points.Keep both fingers still and separated, then touch and hold briefly.Release when the measurement line appears. If the map zooms instead, try again while keeping the distance between your fingers steady during the hold.",{"section":204,"id":1018,"title":1019,"titles":1020,"content":1021,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmeasure-tool#adjust-the-line","Adjust the line",[241],"Touch and hold either endpoint ring briefly, then drag it to place the endpoint more precisely.Touch and hold the line briefly, then drag it to move both endpoints together.Tap the measurement label to switch between the full distance-and-direction view and a compact distance label.Use Swap  to reverse the measurement direction.Use Close  to remove the measurement. When an endpoint is dragged onto your current-location marker, it can snap to that position and follow you as your location changes. Moving the endpoint away releases it. Measurements are saved on the device and return after Lokimaps is reopened. They remain on the map until you remove them. You can create more than one measurement and bring a background measurement forward by selecting it.",{"section":204,"id":1023,"title":1024,"titles":1025,"content":1026,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fmeasure-tool#change-units","Change units",[241],"Open Settings .Find the Units section.Choose a distance unit under Distance.Choose Degrees, NATO mils (6400), or Finnish piiru (6000) under Angle. The selected angle unit is also used for the direction shown by Pointer. For a route made from several points, use Route Planner.",{"section":255,"id":251,"title":253,"titles":1028,"content":1029,"level":345},[],"Record, pause, save, and organise an outdoor track in Lokimaps, choose GPS accuracy, and share the finished track as GPX. Track recording saves the path you travel as a track under Bookmarks. The map widget shows the current recording state and accumulated distance. On supported devices, a Live Activity also shows the recording or paused state and distance outside the app.",{"section":255,"id":1031,"title":1032,"titles":1033,"content":1034,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Frecord-tracks#start-and-finish-a-recording","Start and finish a recording",[253],"Find Track recording on the map and tap Play .Keep Lokimaps running while you move. The recorded line and distance update as usable location readings arrive.Tap Pause  when you want to stop adding points without finishing the track. Tap Play  to continue as a new segment.Open Stop  and choose Save  when the trip is complete.Name the track, choose a folder under Bookmarks, decide whether to show it on the map, then select Save. If the recording widget is hidden, open Settings , find General, and enable Show track recording. Track recording, its Live Activity, and all saved-track actions are available without PRO.",{"section":255,"id":1036,"title":1037,"titles":1038,"content":1039,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Frecord-tracks#record-in-the-background","Record in the background",[253],"For background recording, keep Location Services enabled and allow the location access requested by Lokimaps. iOS can limit background updates when permissions, battery state, or system settings restrict location use. If Lokimaps is interrupted with an unfinished recording, the app attempts to restore that track when it opens again. Check the recording state before continuing your trip.",{"section":255,"id":1041,"title":1042,"titles":1043,"content":1044,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Frecord-tracks#balance-accuracy-and-battery-use","Balance accuracy and battery use",[253],"Open Settings  and select GPS accuracy.Choose Accurate for the best map, navigation, and recording precision with higher battery use.Choose Balanced for a compromise between updates and battery life.Choose Battery saving for fewer updates, understanding that the displayed position and recorded track can be less precise. Terrain, tree cover, buildings, device placement, and satellite visibility can all affect the result. Carry enough battery for the trip and do not treat a recorded line as a guarantee of your current position. Open a saved track to see its map preview, distance, moving time, area, average and top speed, start and finish times, duration, and lowest and highest elevation when those values are available. The Actions  menu can show it on the map, share it as GPX, rename or move it, change its line colour or width, hide it, or delete it. To send the finished track to another app or device, choose Share GPX . See Import and export GPX for details. Track recording can also enable background updates for Location sharing.",{"section":255,"id":264,"title":266,"titles":1046,"content":1047,"level":345},[],"Import GPX tracks, routes, and waypoints into Lokimaps Bookmarks, then export individual items or complete folders through the iOS share sheet. Lokimaps imports standard GPX tracks, routes, and waypoints. Imported items appear under Bookmarks, where you can organise them into folders and choose whether they are visible on the map.",{"section":255,"id":1049,"title":1050,"titles":1051,"content":1052,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fgpx#what-is-a-gpx-file","What is a GPX file?",[266],"GPX stands for GPS Exchange Format. A GPX file stores geographic coordinates as waypoints, routes, and tracks, and may also include details such as elevations and timestamps. It is used to transfer outdoor and GPS data between compatible apps and devices, but visual styling and app-specific features may not transfer.",{"section":255,"id":1054,"title":1055,"titles":1056,"content":1057,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fgpx#import-from-bookmarks","Import from Bookmarks",[266],"Open Bookmarks .Open the Actions  menu and choose Import GPX .Select one .gpx file in the iOS file picker.Review the tracks, routes, and bookmarks found in the file.Choose Import into  to select a destination folder.Set Show on map  as wanted, then select Import. You can also open a GPX file from Files, Mail, or another app and choose Lokimaps from the iOS share or open-in options.",{"section":255,"id":1059,"title":1060,"titles":1061,"content":1062,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fgpx#export-one-item","Export one item",[266],"Open a bookmark, saved route, or recorded track under Bookmarks.Choose Share GPX .Use the iOS share sheet to save the file, send it, or open it in another compatible app. GPX exports can contain sensitive location history, timestamps, elevations, and folder names. Review what the file contains and who will receive it before sharing.",{"section":255,"id":1064,"title":1065,"titles":1066,"content":1067,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fgpx#export-a-folder","Export a folder",[266],"Open the folder under Bookmarks. To export everything, stay at the top level.Open the Actions  menu.Choose Share as GPX .Select a destination in the iOS share sheet. A folder export includes supported bookmarks, saved routes, and tracks inside that folder and its subfolders. Lokimaps adds folder-path information to its own GPX exports so that structure can be restored when the file is imported back into Lokimaps. Other apps may ignore that optional extension.",{"section":255,"id":1069,"title":1070,"titles":1071,"content":1072,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fgpx#if-an-import-looks-incomplete","If an import looks incomplete",[266],"GPX is an exchange format with many vendor-specific extensions. Lokimaps imports standard waypoints, routes, tracks, names, timestamps, track-point elevations, and track segments when present, but app-specific styling or proprietary data may not transfer. Imported and older routes normally do not contain Lokimaps Route Planner waypoints or routing-mode data, so Edit in Route Planner is not offered for them. See Bookmarks and saved items for organising imported items, Record a track for creating a new track, or Route Planner for creating a saved route.",{"section":255,"id":278,"title":280,"titles":1074,"content":1075,"level":345},[],"Save map locations as bookmarks and organise, inspect, style, share, move, show, or delete Lokimaps bookmarks, routes, tracks, folders, and imported GPX items. Bookmarks keeps your saved map locations, planned routes, recorded tracks, imported GPX items, and folders together. The app calls a saved map location a bookmark.",{"section":255,"id":1077,"title":1078,"titles":1079,"content":1080,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbookmarks#save-a-point-from-the-map","Save a point from the map",[280],"Move the map until the centre crosshair  is over the location.Open Pointer  and open the point details.Select Save as bookmark .Enter a name, choose a destination folder, and decide whether to show the bookmark on the map.Select Save. You can also save a place directly from a Search result.",{"section":255,"id":1082,"title":1083,"titles":1084,"content":1085,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbookmarks#find-and-organise-items","Find and organise items",[280],"Open Bookmarks  from the bottom toolbar.Use the search field  to find a bookmark by name.Open the Actions  menu and choose New folder  to create a folder or subfolder.Select Edit to choose several items, then move or delete the selection.Use Sort By  to order the current folder by name or creation date. The visibility   control beside an item changes whether that bookmark, route, track, or folder is shown on the map. Hiding an item does not delete it.",{"section":255,"id":1087,"title":1088,"titles":1089,"content":1090,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fbookmarks#work-with-item-details","Work with item details",[280],"Open an item to see a map preview, available details, and the actions for its type: A bookmark shows its coordinates, estimated elevation, and addition date. You can show it on the map, navigate to it, copy its coordinates, share it as GPX, rename or move it, choose a red, green, or blue marker, change visibility, or delete it.A saved route shows its distance, enclosed area, and creation date. You can show it on the map, share it as GPX, rename or move it, change its line colour or width, change visibility, or delete it. Routes saved by Route Planner also offer Edit in Route Planner .A recorded track shows distance, moving time, enclosed area, speed, time, and elevation statistics when available. It offers the same map, GPX, organisation, visibility, line-style, and deletion actions as a route.A folder can be renamed, shown or hidden as a group, shared as one GPX file, or deleted. To move a folder, select Edit in its parent folder, select the folder, and choose Move. The visibility of an item inside a hidden folder is retained for when the folder is shown again. Deleting an item is different from hiding it. Deleting a folder permanently deletes every nested folder, bookmark, route, and track inside it. Export anything you need first and check the confirmation message before removing saved data. For moving data between apps, see Import and export GPX. For creating new recorded content, see Record a track.",{"section":294,"id":290,"title":292,"titles":1092,"content":1093,"level":345},[],"Create, join, rename, and manage a Lokimaps location-sharing group, invite trusted companions, control sharing, and view members on the map. Location sharing lets a group of trusted companions see one another on the Lokimaps map. New access requires Lokimaps PRO, location permission, and a network connection. People who already had location-sharing groups before it became a PRO feature retain access.",{"section":294,"id":1095,"title":1096,"titles":1097,"content":1098,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flocation-sharing#create-a-group","Create a group",[292],"Open Location sharing  from the bottom toolbar.Select Add group .Enter a group name. The first time, also enter the first name or nickname that other group members should see.Save the group and open its details.Select Share invitation link  and send the link to trusted participants. An invitation link contains the information needed to join the group. Treat it as private and share it only with people you want in the group.",{"section":294,"id":1100,"title":1101,"titles":1102,"content":1103,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flocation-sharing#join-from-an-invitation","Join from an invitation",[292],"Open the invitation link on an iPhone or iPad with Lokimaps installed.Confirm the group name shown by Lokimaps.Enter your name if the app asks for it.Select Join group. Your name is shown only to members of the location-sharing groups you join. You can change it later from the Location sharing Actions  menu.",{"section":294,"id":1105,"title":1106,"titles":1107,"content":1108,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flocation-sharing#control-what-is-shared","Control what is shared",[292],"Each group has its own enabled switch. When a group is disabled, your location is not shared with that group and its other members are hidden from your map. When enabled, your location is shared while Lokimaps is in use. It is shared in the background only while track recording is enabled. Location data is end-to-end encrypted, so the Lokimaps service cannot read the shared positions.",{"section":294,"id":1110,"title":1111,"titles":1112,"content":1113,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flocation-sharing#view-and-manage-the-group","View and manage the group",[292],"Open a group to see its members and the time of their latest available location.Select another member to show that person on the map.Share the invitation link again when another trusted participant needs it.Open the group's Actions  menu to choose Change group name .Swipe another member or use the member's context menu to choose Remove member  when needed.Turn the group off temporarily, or choose Leave group  to remove it from your list. If a group is disabled, selecting another member automatically enables the group and resumes sharing your own location with that group. Location sharing depends on each member's device, connection, permissions, and recent location updates. A stale or missing position should not be treated as proof of where someone is.",{"section":307,"id":303,"title":305,"titles":1115,"content":1116,"level":345},[],"Compare free and PRO Lokimaps features, subscribe through the App Store, manage or restore a purchase, and understand map and offline-download access. Lokimaps includes one base map chosen during setup. PRO is an auto-renewable subscription that unlocks the complete map catalogue and additional online and specialist tools. Already have an older single-map subscription? If you purchased it within the last six months, see how to claim one free year of Lokimaps PRO.",{"section":307,"id":1118,"title":1119,"titles":1120,"content":1121,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flokimaps-pro#what-works-without-pro","What works without PRO",[305],"The following features do not require PRO: The one Topo main map chosen during setup, plus the worldwide Road map and Satellite mapsOffline area downloads for supported, downloadable maps that you already have access toDirect Route Planner lines, route saving and editing, and distance and area calculationStraight-line Navigation, Pointer, base camp, the live trail, and Measure ToolPlace, address, coordinate, and Finnish property-identifier search, although online searches need a connectionTrack recording, including background recording and the Live Activity where supportedBookmarks, folders, GPX import and export, map visibility, and item stylingMap rotation, 3D pitch, speed, Apple points of interest, coordinate and measurement units, and GPS accuracy settings",{"section":307,"id":1123,"title":1124,"titles":1125,"content":1126,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flokimaps-pro#what-pro-includes","What PRO includes",[305],"PRO includes: Every built-in map and layer in the current catalogueCompatible custom WMS and WMTS maps and WFS layers, with manual setup or AI-assisted discoveryWalking, cycling, and car routing between Route Planner waypointsLocation-sharing groupsOma riista hunting-area layers Feature coverage can depend on the map, data provider, country, and online service. Review the details shown for a feature or map inside the app. Offline area downloads are not themselves a PRO feature. They are available without PRO for supported, downloadable maps that you already have access to. PRO expands the set of maps you can access, but it does not make every map or layer downloadable.",{"section":307,"id":1128,"title":1129,"titles":1130,"content":1131,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flokimaps-pro#subscribe","Subscribe",[305],"Open Settings .Select Lokimaps PRO.Review the current monthly and yearly options, App Store price, renewal terms, and any trial shown for your Apple Account.Choose a plan and confirm the purchase with Apple. The in-app PRO screen and Apple's purchase sheet are the source of current pricing and trial eligibility. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled and can be managed in your Apple Account subscription settings.",{"section":307,"id":1133,"title":1134,"titles":1135,"content":1136,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flokimaps-pro#restore-an-existing-purchase","Restore an existing purchase",[305],"Make sure the device is signed in to the Apple Account used for the subscription.Open the Lokimaps PRO screen.Select Restore purchases.Wait for Lokimaps to refresh the subscription status. If you have an eligible offer code, use Redeem code on the PRO screen or in Settings  under About.",{"section":307,"id":1138,"title":1139,"titles":1140,"content":1141,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flokimaps-pro#manage-or-cancel-a-subscription","Manage or cancel a subscription",[305],"Open Settings , select Lokimaps PRO, and choose Manage subscription. Apple opens the subscription-management sheet for the Apple Account on the device. Cancelling stops future renewal but does not normally remove access before the end of the current paid period. Learn about PRO routing, manual custom maps and layers, finding sources with Layer AI, Oma riista areas, or Location sharing. For purchase problems, see Troubleshooting.",{"section":307,"id":316,"title":318,"titles":1143,"content":1144,"level":345},[],"Claim a free year of Lokimaps PRO after purchasing an earlier single-map subscription, then cancel the old plan. Thank you for supporting Lokimaps through one of our earlier subscriptions. If you purchased any Lokimaps subscription other than PRO within the last six months, you are eligible for one free year of Lokimaps PRO.",{"section":307,"id":1146,"title":1147,"titles":1148,"content":1149,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flegacy-subscription-to-pro#claim-your-free-year","Claim your free year",[318],"Contact support and tell us that you have an eligible older subscription. We will send you a link for your free year of PRO.Open the link you receive and follow the instructions to activate your free one-year Lokimaps PRO subscription.After PRO is active, cancel your existing subscription or subscriptions by following Apple's instructions for cancelling a subscription. Activate PRO before cancelling the older subscription so that your access continues without interruption.",{"section":307,"id":327,"title":329,"titles":1151,"content":1152,"level":345},[],"Fix common Lokimaps map, custom WMS, WMTS and WFS, Layer AI, location, offline download, routing, GPX, and PRO issues. Start with the checks below. They solve many temporary problems without changing or deleting your saved items.",{"section":307,"id":1154,"title":1155,"titles":1156,"content":1157,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftroubleshooting#first-checks","First checks",[329],"Update Lokimaps from the App Store.Confirm that the iPhone or iPad has enough free storage and battery.Check the network connection when using search, routed planning, location sharing, or a map area that was not downloaded.Close and reopen Lokimaps. If needed, restart the device.Reproduce the problem once and note the exact action and message shown.",{"section":307,"id":1159,"title":1160,"titles":1161,"content":1162,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftroubleshooting#location-is-missing-or-inaccurate","Location is missing or inaccurate",[329],"Open the iOS Settings app, then select Apps, Lokimaps, and Location.Allow the location access requested by Lokimaps. Background track recording needs background location access.Enable precise location if the option is shown and you need detailed positioning.In Lokimaps, open Settings  and review GPS accuracy. Battery saving uses fewer updates and can be less precise.Move outdoors with a clear view of the sky and allow time for a new position.",{"section":307,"id":1164,"title":1165,"titles":1166,"content":1167,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftroubleshooting#a-map-is-blank-or-unavailable","A map is blank or unavailable",[329],"Open Maps  from the map controls and confirm that the intended base map is selected and that you have access to it.Move inside the map's documented coverage and try another zoom level.If offline, confirm that you downloaded the same map, area, and useful zoom range before losing the connection.If cached tiles appear damaged or stale, open the map's Actions  menu, choose Download settings , and clear the cache. This removes downloaded data for that map, so download the area again afterwards. See Maps and layers, the built-in map catalog, and Offline maps for the full workflow.",{"section":307,"id":1169,"title":1170,"titles":1171,"content":1172,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftroubleshooting#a-custom-map-or-layer-does-not-load","A custom map or layer does not load",[329],"Confirm that Lokimaps PRO is active and that the source is a public HTTPS WMS, WMTS, or WFS service.Open the item's Actions  menu and select Edit . Check the preview, coverage, style, format, CRS, TileMatrixSet, and transparency options that are available.Try another zoom level and move inside the provider's documented coverage.For a dense WFS layer, zoom closer and turn off Show annotations.Check whether the provider changed or removed its service. Third-party availability is outside Lokimaps control. Custom sources do not support Download area. See Add custom maps and layers for supported protocols and detailed checks.",{"section":307,"id":1174,"title":1175,"titles":1176,"content":1177,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftroubleshooting#layer-ai-cannot-find-or-preview-a-result","Layer AI cannot find or preview a result",[329],"Include an area, the information you want, whether it should be a base map or overlay, and a preferred provider when possible. Layer AI only supports public HTTPS WMS, WMTS, and WFS services, so a normal web map, private API, XYZ tiles, or ArcGIS REST-only endpoint will not work. If the service is temporarily busy or rate-limited, wait a moment and try again. If the agent found several compatible layers, choose one of the exact names it lists. See Find maps and layers with AI for the complete workflow and limitations.",{"section":307,"id":1179,"title":1180,"titles":1181,"content":1182,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftroubleshooting#search-routing-or-sharing-does-not-update","Search, routing, or sharing does not update",[329],"These features use online services. Confirm the connection and try again later if a service reports that it is busy. In Route Planner, Direct mode remains available without the online routing service, while walking, cycling, and car modes require PRO and a connection. For Location sharing, also confirm that the group is enabled and that each member has recent location permission and connectivity.",{"section":307,"id":1184,"title":1185,"titles":1186,"content":1187,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftroubleshooting#pro-is-not-recognised","PRO is not recognised",[329],"Confirm that the subscription is active for the Apple Account on the device.Open Settings , select Lokimaps PRO, and choose Restore purchases.Wait for the status to refresh before reopening the locked feature. If you purchased an older single-map subscription within the last six months, see how to claim one free year of Lokimaps PRO.",{"section":307,"id":1189,"title":1190,"titles":1191,"content":1192,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftroubleshooting#a-gpx-file-does-not-import","A GPX file does not import",[329],"Confirm that the file name ends in .gpx and that the file opens normally in Files.Try importing it from Bookmarks , then choose Import GPX .Check whether the file actually contains standard GPX waypoints, routes, or tracks. Proprietary extensions from another app may not transfer.",{"section":307,"id":1194,"title":1195,"titles":1196,"content":1197,"level":354},"\u002Fdocs\u002Ftroubleshooting#contact-support","Contact support",[329],"Open Settings , find About, then choose Send feedback or Support. Send feedback opens the in-app feedback form, while Support opens the Lokimaps website. Include: What you expected to happen.The exact steps that caused the problem.Any error message and a screenshot when safe to share.The Lokimaps version and build shown in Settings, About.The device model and iOS or iPadOS version. Do not send private invitation links, location-sharing secrets, subscription receipts, or other credentials in a support message.",{"id":1199,"title":68,"body":1200,"description":69,"extension":1354,"featured":12,"featuredOrder":13,"icon":71,"keywords":1355,"meta":1356,"navigation":28,"order":70,"path":66,"section":57,"sectionOrder":40,"seo":1357,"sitemap":1358,"sourceUpdatedAt":13,"stem":1359,"translationKey":67,"updatedAt":77,"__hash__":1360},"docs\u002Fdocs\u002F23.finland-nautical-chart-symbols.md",{"type":1201,"value":1202,"toc":1345},"minimark",[1203,1210,1221,1230,1234,1237,1240,1243,1246,1249,1257,1260,1263,1272,1275,1278,1281,1284,1287,1290,1293,1296,1305,1308,1311,1342],[1204,1205,1206],"blockquote",{},[1207,1208,1209],"p",{},"The Finnish nautical chart in Lokimaps is not approved for navigation and does not replace an official, corrected nautical chart or required navigation equipment. Do not use it as the sole source for a voyage, water depth, clearance, or hazard decision.",[1207,1211,1212,1213,1220],{},"Lokimaps displays Traficom's open chart-image WMTS, a viewing interface based on hydrographic data in raster format. Traficom lists that interface under open data, separately from official paper charts and ENCs for navigation and from quality-assured chart datasets, on its ",[1214,1215,1219],"a",{"href":1216,"rel":1217},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.traficom.fi\u002Fen\u002Fhydrography\u002Ffinnish-nautical-charts\u002Fdistribution-channels-nautical-charts-and-hydrographic-data",[1218],"nofollow","distribution page",".",[1207,1222,1223,1224,1229],{},"For the drawn marks, use Traficom's ",[1214,1225,1228],{"href":1226,"rel":1227},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.traficom.fi\u002Ffiles\u002Fmedia\u002Ffile\u002Fmerkkienselitys_net_1.pdf",[1218],"official explanation of symbols on Finnish nautical charts",". Traficom states that its printed charts use international INT symbology based on the International Hydrographic Organization's S-4 standard. Use Traficom's own key for the Finnish symbols and abbreviations visible in the raster map.",[1231,1232,446],"h2",{"id":1233},"depths-depth-contours-and-colour-areas",[1207,1235,1236],{},"Soundings are individual depth values. Depth contours mark boundaries between depth ranges, and colour bands help separate shallow water from deeper water. Read a sounding together with its contour, surrounding tint, units, and chart datum. A blank space is not proof of deep or fully surveyed water.",[1207,1238,1239],{},"Charted depth is not the same as the water available at this moment. Wind, atmospheric pressure, currents, regulation, and seasonal conditions can raise or lower the actual water level. Never add or subtract from a charted value until you have confirmed the chart's vertical reference and the current water level.",[1207,1241,1242],{},"At the closest app zoom levels, Lokimaps enlarges the last available raster tile. Larger figures are not more precise, and enlargement cannot reveal omitted hazards. The tile view also does not provide the complete title block, edition, scale, caution notes, or correction status that you must check on an approved chart.",[1231,1244,451],{"id":1245},"rocks-foul-areas-wrecks-and-obstructions",[1207,1247,1248],{},"The official legend distinguishes rocks by whether they are above water, awash, or below the chart datum, along with wrecks and other obstructions. Their symbols may be combined with depth values or danger lines.",[1207,1250,1251,1252,1256],{},"Pay special attention to a ",[1253,1254,1255],"strong",{},"foul area",". Traficom explains that its black dotted danger curve encloses a widespread rocky or obstructed area where not every danger is charted individually. A symbol inside the curve identifies the kind of danger. Do not plan a route between the few visible rock symbols inside such an area, because the apparent gaps are not surveyed safe passages.",[1231,1258,456],{"id":1259},"fairways-routes-and-restricted-areas",[1207,1261,1262],{},"Finnish charts use different marks for fairway areas, channel centre lines, recommended tracks, leading lines, direction of traffic, anchorage information, and limits or restricted areas. Similar-looking dashed or dotted lines can carry very different meanings.",[1207,1264,1265,1266,1271],{},"Do not confuse fairway class, safe clearance depth, and design draught. On N2000 charts, merchant fairways in classes 1 and 2 show the safe clearance depth using the minimum-depth symbol; the value is a secured fairway depth, not necessarily the area's actual minimum water depth. Their design draught is published separately. A channel draught printed on an older mean-sea-level chart is treated as a design draught. Traficom's ",[1214,1267,1270],{"href":1268,"rel":1269},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.traficom.fi\u002Fen\u002Ffairways-and-ports\u002Ffairways\u002Fprinciples-and-application-channel-depths-finland",[1218],"channel-depth guidance"," explains the distinction. Neither the safe clearance depth nor the design draught guarantees safe passage, and each must be adjusted for the current water level. Shoaling, temporary work, buoy changes, traffic arrangements, and restrictions can also change. Consult a current official chart, fairway information, and Notices to Mariners before relying on a route.",[1231,1273,461],{"id":1274},"buoys-beacons-lights-and-leading-marks",[1207,1276,1277],{},"The symbol for an aid to navigation combines several pieces of information. Shape, colour, topmark, light colour, and light characteristic can each matter. Cardinal, lateral, isolated-danger, safe-water, and special marks must be distinguished using the official symbol key, not guessed from a small screen icon.",[1207,1279,1280],{},"Lights and sectors may be accompanied by abbreviations for colour, rhythm, period, height, and nominal range. Leading lights or daymarks work as a pair only when observed and interpreted correctly. 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