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CATEGORY WALKERS' APP OF THE YEAR

GOLD

OS MAPS

LAIMING TOP SPOT for the fourth year in a row, the OS Maps app must be running out of space in its trophy cabinet. The navigation app from Ordnance Survey secured a readers. One voter said “the app has changed my outdoors experience” whilst another labelled it “the best in the world”. Hundreds of others mentioned the app’s features, including route plotting, downloading and walk tracking, in their comments.

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