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My Location: 5 picks for saving a trip route

I’ll help you choose between saving places, offline hiking maps and local transport tools before your next trip.

My Location: artwork from its Google Play listing

Mateo IrvingReviewer · published Nov 9, 2026 · 6 min read

01A saved pin beats a half-remembered address

You’re stepping off a train in an unfamiliar city, trying to remember which café your friend named and where you meant to meet later. I’d rather save both places on a map before I set off. My Location - Track GPS & Maps is the clearest fit in this shortlist for that simple job: saving locations, viewing your current position and keeping a record of routes.

Its listing describes place bookmarks with a title, description and destination type, plus live location sharing and route tracking. That makes it useful for a trip planner built around your own stops rather than a package itinerary. You can also import and export KML, GPX and GEOJSON files, which is handy if you already keep map data elsewhere. The trade-off is that it’s a general GPS tool, not a dedicated transport or accommodation service.

The shortlist

  1. My Location Best for saving places, checking your GPS position, sharing live location and tracking routes.
  2. OsmAnd Best for offline maps, hiking navigation and notes on the trail.
  3. Opal Travel Best for travel planning focused on New South Wales.
  4. Hipcamp Best for finding and booking campsites, campgrounds and RV resorts.
  5. Celebrity Cruises Best for planning around a Celebrity Cruises trip.

02My Location is the best all-rounder for personal routes

I’d put My Location first when the task is to mark places, check an address or share where you are. Nearby-place discovery can help when you want to find cafés, businesses or malls around your current position. Route tracking also gives you a way to look back at routes you’ve recorded, which suits a day of wandering or a bike outing where the path matters as much as the destination.

For a coach juggling practice locations, I value having the meeting point saved rather than searching through a chat while people wait. I’d use a clear bookmark title and description for the entrance or rendezvous point, then share my live location when someone needs to find me. Ads and in-app purchases are part of the listing, so I’d check the screens I plan to use and keep the essential location details easy to reach.

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03OsmAnd is the stronger pick for a trail day

OsmAnd — Maps & GPS Offline comes second for people whose main concern is navigation away from reliable service. Its listing highlights offline maps, hiking navigation and notes. That makes it a more natural choice than My Location when you want to prepare a trail map in advance and carry notes along with it, rather than mainly save city stops or share your position.

I’d choose it for a hike where route context matters and connectivity may be patchy. My Location remains the better match if the priority is collecting places, seeing nearby businesses or sharing a live location. Before a trail outing, decide whether your key task is following an offline map or keeping a personal record of places and tracks; those are related jobs, but they call for different emphasis.

04Opal Travel fits a NSW transport day

Opal Travel is my third pick, and it’s the shortlist’s location-specific option for public transport in New South Wales. Its store summary positions it as a place for travel needs across NSW, so I’d consider it when a trip depends on local transport rather than personal GPS tracking. It isn’t a substitute for My Location’s saved-place and route-recording focus.

If I were planning a day of appointments across the region, I’d choose the app that fits the transport part of the plan and keep My Location for pins such as a venue entrance or meeting spot. That split is practical: one tool is oriented around NSW travel, while the other centers on your position, places and routes. For trips elsewhere, the shortlist’s other options may be a closer fit.

05Hipcamp and Celebrity Cruises solve different trip problems

Hipcamp: Camping, RVs & Cabins is fourth because it addresses a different part of travel: finding and booking private campsites, campgrounds and RV resorts. I’d pick it when the stay itself is the main planning decision. It is not the app I’d reach for to track a walking route or organize a map of city stops, but it fits a camping trip where choosing a place to stay comes first.

Celebrity Cruises comes fifth, and its role is narrower still: it is designed to support a Celebrity Cruises experience. If your plans center on that cruise, it’s the relevant specialist in this group. For a general trip planner, My Location is more flexible for saved places and route tracking. These picks aren’t interchangeable: one is for campsite discovery, another for a cruise, and the rest focus on navigation or regional travel.

06Choose by the moment you need help with

Start with the task that could derail the day. If it’s finding a saved address, organizing stops or sharing your position, choose My Location. If it’s hiking with an offline map, look at OsmAnd. For travel around NSW, consider Opal Travel; for a campsite, Hipcamp; and for a Celebrity Cruises trip, the cruise app. This is a useful shortlist, not a claim that one app handles every part of travel.

Next, consider how you prepare. A route file you already use points toward My Location’s listed KML, GPX and GEOJSON support. A trail plan points toward OsmAnd’s offline-map emphasis. A place to stay or a specific cruise calls for the app built around that booking context. For flights, airport plans or hotel deals, none of these descriptions makes those the main job, so I wouldn’t choose among them on that basis.

My practical choice is My Location when I want one map for saved places, current position and tracked routes. I’d add a specialist only when the trip has a clear need it handles better, such as an offline hike, NSW transport or a camping stay. That keeps the setup simple and makes the first decision obvious: what do I need to find, follow or share?

The takeaway

First, choose the app around the trip’s main pinch point: saved places and live location, offline hiking, NSW transport, a campsite or a cruise.

Continue to my My Location page just below for a closer look at how its GPS maps, saved places and route tracking fit your plans.

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