ArxSilex MapTools
Offline/online maps, GPS, routing, astronomy & geodata
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Details
- External ID
- 1273156
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ArxSilex MapTools
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Android, Maps, Nature & Outdoors
Description
Plan outdoor trips and document fieldwork on Android. Combine your own offline maps and geodata with WMS/WMTS services. Navigate to coordinates, record tracks, organize projects and view drone Remote ID. Offline astronomy helps plan daylight; terrain shade requires your own elevation data. No MapTools account needed. Free version with a one-time Pro upgrade. External data/service fees are not included.
Enrichment
- Niche
- specialized navigation and tracking apps
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mapping and geodata tools for outdoor navigation
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building an Android GIS utility with offline raster/vector mapping, WMS/WMTS protocols, offline digital elevation model (DEM) hillshading, and Drone Remote ID decoding requires specialized GIS and hardware radio parsing expertise.
What it would actually take: Built on Android (Kotlin/C++) utilizing GIS libraries like MapLibre Native, GDAL, or custom OpenGL/Vulkan rendering pipelines to handle offline MBTiles, WMS/WMTS standards, and local DEM raster hillshading. It also requires Bluetooth/Wi-Fi promiscuous scanning logic to capture and decode FAA/OpenDroneID ASTM F3411 Remote ID broadcast frames, which goes far beyond simple API integration.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #47 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Maptoolkit.org · hn · 2026-07-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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