TrigFindAR

The latest update gets the app working again. Map tiles load and bench marks and trig points are displayed. Tapping on an icon opens a browser window from the relevant website. So far, so good. The interface is fairly obscure and isn’t intuitive. There seems to be bugs and as far as I can tell there is no way of getting help. The App Store link for getting support just returns a blank page. There’s no competition and if you want to see what is around your current location, then this app works well. Syncing with T:UK and the BMD are essential, but seem unreliable.

I was in 2 minds whether to download this given some previous reviews, however I did download it and it does work. I like the fact that it changes your logged BM’s to green - this will help as I start to increase my count. I also like the 2-way integration with the BM database site. I’m finding the maps a little slow to load but that’s probably because of the amount of data they hold.

The information on the ‘condition’ of Trig Points that have changed condition in the last year has not been updated for over at least 12 months (in one example I can see it’s been almost 2 years) so there appears to be no active link between this App and the TP:UK database, or no one has proactively done anything to push an update of the data through… Perhaps that’s why I cannot get the ‘Bagged’ Trigs to sync with those I have bagged on TP:UK on either my iPhone or iPad. Really disappointing, as a tool it could have been so useful, but at present it’s not really worth bothering with TBH.