Chocorua Map
What if you could have a personal guide to the Chocorua Basin and Mountain that would show you where the trails and publicly accessible lands are, what cool things to look for along the way, and explains how glaciation shaped the spectacular landscape?
iPhone and iPad owners can now experience the Chocorua Lake basin and trails with our new Chocorua Map app for iOS mobile devices. The Chocorua Map app uses an exquisitely detailed shaded relief base map created with LiDAR elevation points spaced every one meter (3.3 ft). All of the publicly-accessible trails in the region are shown as tappable traces that not only reveal the trail name and length, but also shows the hiker how far they have come and how much further they have to go. The app also incorporates a full digital elevation model so the user can plot trail profiles and measure how steep different sections of each trail are, as well as determining the position an elevation of every tapped point. To the earth scientist, the topography reveals the glacial history of the region in astonishing detail and the app, written by a professional geologist, communicates that history to the users as tappable points of interest (POIs) which contain a written description as well as a photo or diagram of the feature. For the truly geeky, the user can even toggle on a bedrock geology overlay. POIs are also used to illustrate points of historical interest with some quoting from Frank Bolles' iconic books on the regional natural history. Finally, the user can add their own points of interest and photos as a kind of digital diary of their explorations in the region; user POIs also provide a means to send a user’s position to another user via text or email.
The Chocorua Basin has notoriously poor cell phone coverage—a small price to pay for the preservation of a primeval landscape uninterrupted by cell phone towers—so the Chocorua Map app is completely self-contained with all of the information, topography, etc. that it needs to operate without any data connection necessary. Data are never downloaded from the internet and, unless the user explicitly chooses to send a text or email with their location to a specific recipient, all of their personal information remains completely private on their phone. The app is free to download for iOS devices and is not supported by any advertising; unfortunately, there is no Android version available at this time.