Polly Track

Offline maps

Download a region once, on your home Wi‑Fi. From then on map, routes, search, restrictions and speed cameras work on the phone, even where there is no signal.

Free20 regionsNo download limit

The regions

All 20 Italian regions, one by one. Each region reaches 5 km past its border, so you cross from one to the next without gaps. If you download several, Polly uses them together for routes, search and rerouting.

Where: on first launch, or ☰ menu or Settings › "Offline maps".

Offline maps: free space, Liguria installed with its OSM data date, other regions to download with their size.
The list: the installed region and the others with their size.
Offline maps (Italian interface): Liguria downloading at 18%, 66 of 347 MB, with Cancel; Emilia-Romagna 897 MB and Toscana 806 MB to download.
A download in progress, with the percentage.
Offline maps on a tablet: regions in two columns with the size of each.
On a tablet the list goes into two columns.

What a region contains

Normal map and topo map, four road networks for routing (Road, Easy, Medium, Hard), elevation, places to search, points of interest, speed cameras, reasons for restrictions, protected areas and data sources.

How the download works

  • On Wi‑Fi it starts at once; on mobile data it asks first.
  • It continues in the background. On Android even with the app closed; on iPhone while the app is suspended, and if you swipe it away it resumes when you reopen it.
  • If it stops, it resumes where it was, without starting over.
  • Before downloading it works out the space actually needed and tells you.
  • Every file is checked before installation. If a map is damaged you get "Repair".
  • During a ride you cannot delete the region in use; an update downloads but installs at the end of the ride.

Topo map

A switch in the ☰ menu (or Settings › Appearance) changes the normal map into the topo map.

The same area with the topo map off: a flat map with no relief or contour lines; paths and points of interest remain.
Topo map off.
Topo map on over Monte Gottero: relief, contour lines, tracks and summits with their altitude such as Monte Passo del Lupo 1505 m and Monte Teccio al Sole 1533 m.
On: relief, contour lines, summits.
Topo map between Monte Gottero and Adelano: hillshading, contour lines, dirt tracks, summits with their altitude, huts, springs and passes.
Tracks and useful offroad points.
  • Hillshading, contour lines every 25 m and bolder every 100 m, spot heights.
  • Easy, Medium and Hard tracks with different dashes, white roads, restricted sections, protected areas.
  • Summits, passes, fords, barriers, springs, huts and shelters, viewpoints.
  • TINITALY elevation at 10 m where available, otherwise Copernicus at 30 m.

When you switch it off, tracks stay drawn as minor roads.

The numbers

20
Italian regions to download
5 km
of map past each region's border
4
road networks for routing: Road, Easy, Medium, Hard
25 m
between contour lines
10 m
resolution of TINITALY elevation, where available

What it does not do

  • You need the internet to download the first region.
  • Only Italian regions: abroad the app tells you so.
  • Data comes from OpenStreetMap and public sources: it can be incomplete or out of date. Each region's date and sources are in "Info, credits and warnings".

How does it compare with Calimoto, Kurviger, OsmAnd, DMD2 and other apps? See the feature-by-feature comparison.