Swiss Pro Map for Android

For $34, I was able to unlock all 1/25k topographic maps covering a large area for hiking near Interlaken, including the Eiger, Jungfrau, and other areas nearby, along with hiking trails and Swiss Mobility information about public transit, lodging, and points of interest. All of the information is available for offline use, including train, tram, and bus schedules, and can take advantage of my Mobile's GPS capabilities. An equivalent amount of paper information would cost considerably more, be much less convenient, and offer much less functionality. The product would be vastly improved by the addition of some basic documentation, but I was able to figure it out in about 20 minutes anyway.

This app is basically useless without buying the maps of the regions. This should be more clearly explained. That being the case, why does the basic app cost money? When you keep zooming in the map freezes and it doesn't let you zoom out again

The app is great - a clever panoramic view (useful in a mountainous country), nice screen transitions. Maps are good - directly equivalent to UK Ordnance Survey or NZ Topo maps. However, the fee structure is terrible - *extremely* expensive maps, and very opaque pricing until you buy the apps. (And yes, 'this is Switzerland', but the pricing is 10x the cost in the UK or NZ.)

Does not work unless you purchase for lots of money the map tiles

This is a very good app, but it would be a really bad idea to buy it without first going to the Swisstopo website to see what you were getting. As some reviewers noted, for the base price you get only the basic app and a single demonstration map, and the map "tiles" are indeed expensive. However, you end up with beautiful high-resolution maps of the section of Switzerland that you want, the application has many of the usual GPS features (current location, track), and the panoramic view and "augmented reality" have great possibilities, though I haven't tried them yet. If you want electronic maps of Switzerland that reside inside your device instead of "out there" on the Internet, I think this is the only way to go.