Where?

Free offline hiking maps for Norway. A lightweight alternative to the discontinued Hvor? app from Kartverket, with topographic maps from Kartverket and OpenStreetMap.

Features

• Free offline maps from Kartverket (topo, toporaster, nautical charts), MapAnt (LiDAR-based orienteering maps), and OpenStreetMap
• GPS tracking with background recording — track your hike with the screen locked
• Real-time location sharing — let friends and family follow your trip live
• Save and revisit tracks and points of interest
• GPX import/export — compatible with other hiking and navigation apps
• Distance measurement tool
• Map overlays: hiking trails (Waymarked Trails), avalanche runout zones (NVE), county borders
• Lightweight and always free

Building

Android app

1. Copy local.properties.example to local.properties and fill in your values
2. Place your google-services.json in app/ (from Firebase console)
3. ./gradlew assembleDebug

iOS app

1. Set up local.properties as above (needed for the shared module build)
2. Build the shared framework: ./gradlew :shared:linkDebugFrameworkIosSimulatorArm64
3. Open iosApp/Where.xcodeproj in Xcode
4. Xcode will fetch MapLibre via SPM on first open — wait for package resolution to finish
5. Select an iPhone simulator and press Run (Cmd+R)

The Gradle build phase in Xcode (embedAndSignAppleFrameworkForXcode) compiles the shared Kotlin framework automatically, so after the initial setup you can iterate from Xcode directly.

To verify just the shared framework without Xcode:

./gradlew :shared:linkDebugFrameworkIosSimulatorArm64   # simulator
./gradlew :shared:linkDebugFrameworkIosArm64            # device

Web server

See web/README.md.