Specifications · User Guide

18Specifications

The facts and figures: where the app works, what it runs on, where its information comes from and its limits.

Item	Detail
Area	44 countries of Europe, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Iceland, Turkey and Ukraine.
Not covered	Belarus, Russia and Georgia. The overseas parts of France and Portugal.
Plan with AI	Trips in the countries covered.
Offline maps	One download per country, for 38 countries. Each one holds the map, the 3D hills and the routes.

Motocamp runs in the web browser. You don't get it from an app store.

Device	Use
iPhone or iPad	Safari. Add it to the home screen from Share.
Android phone or tablet	Chrome. Add it from the three dots menu.
Laptop or desktop	Any up to date browser, such as Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox.
Facebook's own browser	It works for a look. Offline maps, the home screen icon and Google sign-in don't work there. Open it in Safari or Chrome instead.

NoteOffline maps need a browser that can keep files. They work in Chrome, and in Safari on iPhone and iPad.

NoteThe dash is made for a phone. On a computer it says so.

Measure	Unit
Distance	Kilometres, or metres when close. Imperial units if you choose them.
Speed	km/h, or imperial units if you choose them
Height and vehicle size	Metres, or feet and inches with imperial units
Vehicle weight	Tonnes
Temperature	Degrees Celsius
Rain	Millimetres
Air pressure	Hectopascals (hPa), on the dash

NoteChoose your units under Units in the Layers tab. In the United Kingdom the app starts on imperial units.

The app plans routes for 7 types of vehicle. The short name is what shows on the Vehicle button.

You can tow with a 4x4 / Overlander, a Campervan or a Motorhome. Turn towing on for it. Car + caravan always tows.

You can set your vehicle's height in the Route tab, from 1.5 to 4.0 metres. Width, length and weight come from the vehicle type.

Information	Where it comes from	How often it updates
Road closures	There is no live feed yet. The switch says so.	None yet.
Closed Roads & Tracks	Mountain pass seasons from OpenStreetMap, plus sources in France, Spain, Finland, Iceland and Italy.	Every day.
Fire hotspots	NASA satellites. NASA is the US space agency. It shows heat seen in the last 2 days.	Every 15 minutes.
Known fires	Fires our team adds by hand.	The app checks every 10 minutes.
Live Hazards	Earthquakes from the European earthquake centre.	Every 10 minutes.
Weather forecast	Open-Meteo, a weather service.	Every 15 minutes.
Rain radar	RainViewer. It shows the past 2 hours and a short look ahead.	Every 5 minutes.
Fuel prices	Government fuel price services in France, Spain and Italy.	France every 15 minutes. Spain every 30. Italy once a day.
Campsites and places	OpenStreetMap, a map made by volunteers, plus national campsite lists.	Map places every week. Other lists every month.
Street and topo map	OpenFreeMap, built from OpenStreetMap.	Kept up to date by OpenFreeMap.
Satellite pictures	Esri, a mapping company.	Kept up to date by Esri.

Closed Roads & Tracks are kept on your phone, so they still show with no signal. Radar, weather, fires and live closures need signal.

NoteA fuel price is marked last known when it is more than 2 hours old.

What	Limit
Plan with AI	15 messages a day for each account. Each follow up counts. The count starts again at 1 in the morning in Paris, or 2 in summer.
Plan with AI message length	500 letters in the box
Stops in a trip from Plan with AI	Up to 12
Trip plan emails	5 a day. A plan can cover up to 30 days.
New places added	5 in any 24 hours
Everything shared with campers	20 in any 24 hours
Reports to us	10 in any 24 hours
Review length	800 letters
Sign-in buttons in our emails	Work for 7 days
Message us if you can't sign in	3 an hour
Stops in a route you plan yourself	No limit
Saved routes and Saved Spots	No limit
GPX files	Only .gpx files. A GPX file is a saved track from another app or device. A file that goes outside the area covered isn't loaded.
Free trial	14 days

Packs are maps and route data you keep on your phone, so the app works with no signal.

Pack	What it holds	Size
One country	The map with place names, the 3D hills and the routes for one of 38 countries.	About 30 MB for Malta to about 2 GB for France
All 38 countries	Every country in the list.	About 18 GB

Each country downloads in this order: the map, then the routes, then the 3D hills.
If the signal drops, nothing is lost. Tap Get the rest and it carries on.
The only size limit is the free space on your phone.
On a phone, the app may offer to download your country for you.
When a newer pack is ready, the app asks. Tap Update or Later.

With no signal, these still need it: live weather, radar, search beyond town names, bicycle routes and Plan with AI.

Step by step, with pictures: Keep the map with no signal