orecast: Minerals & Fossils

There is more under your feet than you think. Ores and minerals, fossils, old adits and spoil heaps from the mining days. orecast shows you on the map what is documented at a place, and tells you where the information comes from. The data comes from official geological surveys and open research databases.

NEW: TAKE AN AREA WITH YOU (OFFLINE MAPS)
In the woods and in many valleys there is often no signal. Save your area to your phone beforehand, and the map, the sites and the warnings about unexploded ordnance keep working without signal. With a free account you can take one area with you. With orecast Pro you get several larger areas, and the relief scanner and aerial imagery come along too.

NEW: THE HEATMAP
Where was there a lot of mining, where many ore finds, where many fossil sites? The heatmap shows it in colour, for your area or for a whole country. The stronger the colour, the more is documented there. It shows where a lot is recorded, not where you will find something. The gold heatmap comes with Pro.

HOW IT WORKS
Tap a spot on the map or let GPS find you. The profile shows what is documented within 5 to 50 kilometres. You can share a place, for example in a message. The app starts where you left off.

WHAT YOU FIND ON THE MAP
• Gold, silver, copper, fluorite and dozens of other raw materials, each with its source
• Fossil sites with their geological age
• Caves, old mines and show mines
• Ore veins in Saxony and coal seams in the Ruhr and the Saar
• Castles, battlefields and bunkers, plus warnings about unexploded ordnance
• The relief scanner from official laser scans: ditches, banks, mining pits and spoil heaps, even under woodland
• Aerial imagery for Germany and Austria
• For every orecast episode the place from the video, plus a place of the week
• A note at low water on the Rhine, Elbe and Danube, with the hunger stones on the Elbe

HONEST, NOT PROMISES
orecast separates what is documented from what is merely possible. No invented percentages, no treasure promises. If the data is thin at a place, the app says so. Where old battlefields suggest unexploded ordnance, the map warns you. Adits and shafts are deadly. Never enter them.

AI ASSESSMENT AND PHOTO IDENTIFICATION
What would I find here? The AI assessment explains the local geology in plain words, from the data at that spot. Take a photo of a rock or a fossil, and the AI suggests what it might be. Neither comes with a guarantee. With a free account your first three AI uses are free.

MY FIND BOOK
Your finds with photo, type, date and note, as a PDF if you like. The exact spot stays visible only to you. You can record a find without signal, it uploads later. If you like, you can show it to other collectors. It then appears after a review, coarsened to about 5 kilometres.

KNOW BEFORE YOU DIG
Collecting and digging are regulated almost everywhere and often need a permit. Respect nature protection, archaeological monuments and private land. orecast provides information, not permission.

FREE AND PRO
Free: the map with sites, mining, fossils, history and warnings, the heatmaps for mining, ores and fossils, and one area to take with you (with an account). The free version shows ads.

orecast Pro adds:
• Unlimited AI assessments and photo identification
• The relief scanner on the whole map, without Pro as a preview around your spot
• Ore veins and coal seams in the full radius, without Pro within 5 kilometres
• The geotope layer and the gold heatmap
• Several larger areas to take with you, with relief scanner and aerial imagery
• GPX export for GPS devices
• No ads

The subscription renews automatically. You can cancel it at any time in Google Play under “Subscriptions”.

Recent changes:
New: take an area with you. The map, sites and ordnance warnings work without signal, with Pro also the relief scanner and aerial imagery. Also new: the heatmap shows where a lot of mining, ore or fossils is documented (gold with Pro).

Plus: places from the videos, place of the week, your find book as a PDF, record finds without signal, share places and a low water note for the Rhine, Elbe and Danube. The app starts where you left off.