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Share your hikes with the world.
Introducing Community Hike Submissions on HiiKER: Help Us Map the World’s Hikes At HiiKER, our mission has always been to make the outdoors more accessible — one trail at a time. Over the years, our dedicated hike team has spent countless hours curating, verifying, and adding over 120,000 hikes to our ever-growing global database. From…
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HiiKER 26. Now available.
We have launched our most advanced update yet, bringing a new standard of hike planning Available now to update now form the app stores, HiiKER 26 introduces powerful new tools for planning, navigating, and sharing hiking adventures. At the core of this release is a major expansion of the our hike planner. Hikers can now:…
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HiiKER is Now Satellite-Ready with T-Mobile T-Satellite
No matter how far the trail takes you — deep into the backcountry, across wild coastline, or up a lonely mountain pass — you can now bring the full power of HiiKER with you. T-Mobile has announced the rollout of T-Satellite, giving compatible phones direct satellite data access in areas with no cell signal. We’re…
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What is a “HiiKER” hike
HiiKER hikes are hikes sourced and built by our HiiKER hike production team. Hike data is provided to us from partner organisations and open source data sets, which is reviewed, processed via our hike system and verified for release to you the user to follow and edit as you wish. But of course there are…
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What’s New in HiiKER — August 2025
A polish-focused month — more accurate coordinates, smoother Live Locator views, and behind-the-scenes reliability work.
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Building a Global Hiking Map
At HiiKER, we’ve been on a mission for the past four years: to help people plan and navigate their hikes through some of the world’s most beautiful wilderness. Along the way, one thing has become crystal clear — we’re obsessed with maps. Not just any maps, but topographic hiking maps. It started with the classics:…
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How digital maps work in a hiking app
Your Map Isn’t One Image. It’s a Pyramid.TL;DR: A HiiKER map looks seamless, but under the hood it’s built from millions (and at global scale, billions) of tiny square images called tiles. We fetch exactly the ones your screen needs, when it needs them—so it feels instant. The illusion of one big map When you…
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What’s New in HiiKER — July 2025
Recording cropping comes to iPhone, guided tours help new hikers find their way around on Android, plus a round of bug fixes.
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What’s New in HiiKER — June 2025
Points of Interest and Quick Actions land on iPhone, while Android gets 3D trail previews and a redesigned recording experience.
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POIs, Quick actions and more!
Note, this is only available on Android… coming to iPhone app very soon! Get ready for some fantastic updates to your HiiKER app! Say hello to Points of Interest (POIs) and super handy Quick Actions! First things first, we’ve tidied up the map view by moving all map functions to the Options button. This means…
