How maps work

The website hatch map is always live. It needs an internet connection to load the map, public land shading, waters, and gages.

On phone, you can download an area for when you are out of service. A downloaded area is a snapshot of that place on your device. It is not a live, nationwide offline atlas.

Use the live map when you have signal. Use a downloaded area when you expect to lose it.

On this website: streets-style or satellite Google basemaps, optional public land shading, waters, and stream gages. You cannot save those Google tiles for offline use.

In the iOS and Android apps: download a patch of streets plus public land. Satellite is available on the phone as well when you include it in the download. Hatch forecasts, flow, and other live details still need a connection when you want them fresh.

No. Desktop browsers cannot pack Google map tiles for offline use, and the phone’s download files are built for the app.

Plan on the website. For a saved map in your pocket, use the IdentaFly app.

Public land shading comes from USGS PAD-US. It is a planning aid, not a survey.

Boundaries are approximate. The colors show who manages the land, not whether you may fish, park, or cross. Unshaded land is often private or simply unmapped in this dataset.

Always check access locally before you go.

You can open the hatch map and search without paying. Public land on the map and downloading areas in the app are subscriber features.

Hatch species detail on the forecast is also gated the same way as the rest of IdentaFly: sign in and subscribe to see the full picture.