Add Harvey's British Mountain Maps to the Locus Store?

Hi, my comment below was actually meant as a reply to you, but I see I added it to the top thread so it probably got missed.

Did you ever contact Harvey? There are areas where OSM based maps are awfully inadequate, and even OS maps are barely usable, but maps produced by Harvey shine.

For now I have to use Avenza just to buy those maps. It's great to have it as an alternative store as they have a very extensive availability of such premium maps, but, unfortunately, feature-wise that app is barely more than a glorified image viewer, nowhere near Locus capabilities.

I'd really like to be able to access maps like Harvey's in Locus instead, even if it meant similar one-off purchases on top of the subscription itself.

Hi,

we contacted them in December 2022 but received no response. I sent the request again today

Thanks, Petr

Thanks. They provide digital maps via at least 3 apps at this point - Outdooractive (and, in the past, in Viewranger), Hiiker and Avenza - so hopefully there is some established partnership process in place that would make this easy. https://www.harveymaps.co.uk/acatalog/digital-mapping.html

Great, thank you for info

Hi Petr, can I assume there is still no luck?

To be honest, it's more complicated. We have resumed communication, but after a few emails we decided to postpone the cooperation/integration. There were several reasons.... Anyway, the question is - is it possible to replace the Harvey map with Ordnance Survey maps?

No, Ordnance Survey are good general maps, but Harvey are absolutely superior topographic maps for hiking specifically. They don't cover as much of the area, focusing on national parks, but where they do, the difference is huge.

I'm curious, what was the complication? Pricing / format incompatibilities / something else? As I mentioned above, we (okay, at least me) would be happy to pay extra to buy those maps on Locus if that's the concern.

I contacted Harvey Maps and Locus Map. No joy yet! It was a while back now and I can't even remember if I had a reply from Harvey. I note that Outdooractive offers the Harvey mapping but you need to pay for the expensive Pro+ subscription to get it.

Response received from Harvey as follows:

We have had requests for HARVEY Maps on Locus Maps previously and we were in communication with them, however they did not get back to us with more information. I will speak to my colleague who is I charge of digital data and see if we can do anything to move things along.

Reply was received from Caitlin.

Hi David,
that's correct. As I already wrote in this topic ...We have resumed communication, but after a few emails we decided to postpone the cooperation/integration. There were several reasons....

Anyway, there seems to be a real demand for these maps, so we will again consider the potential support of Harvey's maps.

Thanks, Petr

Sorry if it's too early, but thought I'd ask again if you had further discussions?

Just getting ready for the summer and planning some hikes.

Did this progress any further? I'm planning ahead and would love to have Harvey maps in locus.

I finally gave up and bought Hiiker.

It's unfortunate, because Locus Maps are much richer feature-wise, but Hiiker has all of Harvey + Ordnance Survey + OSM-basee maps for a reasonable subscription price and in some areas having better maps trumps flexible features on top of them.