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# Frank’s Map, November 2026: What It Does Now
- URL: https://www.frankschlichting.com/franks-map/what-the-map-does-now-november-2026/
- Published: 2026-11-09T05:14:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T05:14:37.000Z
- Description: The map has its own home for the bush, a key that says on or off, tools that fold away, and a beacon that keeps trying. Here is where it stands.
- Author: Frank Schlichting
- Tags: What’s New, #franks-map

Frank’s Map began as the map of the mines. It is now the mines, every road and trail the Province has on file, the day’s warnings, and the tools for going in and coming back — and this is the first note of a section that will keep up with it. Each release gets a note like this one, so you can see what changed and why.

## Its own home

The map lives in two places that are the same map. On this site, at [the map page](https://www.frankschlichting.com/mines/map/), it is for reading at the table — and, signed in as a reader on the list, each position shows where it really is. At [FranksMap.com](https://franksmap.com/?ref=frankschlichting.com) it is for the bush: it downloads an area onto your phone and works with no signal at all. Nothing to install and no account on either.

## Download a map

At FranksMap.com, open Tools, then Download a Map. Bring the country you are going into onto the screen — about a day’s driving, up to 300 km across — and the panel adds up what it will take before a byte is fetched. Press Download, and the map, the roads and trails, the hills and the names stay on the phone. The areas you hold are listed, each with Remove. There is a [how-to](https://www.frankschlichting.com/franks-map/how-to-take-a-map-offline/).

## The key says on or off

Every layer in the key now reads **on** or **off** at a glance, and the groups — the mines, the works, the roads, the trails, the logging, the sled trails, the signal, the warnings — fold closed so the key is as short as you want it. It remembers how you left it.

## The tools fold away

The tool buttons sit behind one button, so the map has the screen. When the map is following you, that button says so, and a gold dot shows when the beacon is on.

## Before you go

One screen for one spot and one day: daylight, the forecast, the avalanche rating and the fire ban, the warnings nearby, where signal was last reported, your trip note, and the essentials to pack. Print it for the glovebox or share it as one link.

## The beacon keeps trying

When you switch the beacon on and name one person, the map’s home tells them by email and by text. If a message cannot be sent the first time, the home tries again every five minutes for a while — and your trip card tells you plainly if the first message did not go, so you can send them the link yourself. [The beacon, plainly](https://www.frankschlichting.com/franks-map/the-beacon-plainly/) says the rest.

## What the map is, and is not

The map is a resource, not something to rely on alone. It tells you where you are and what is on file; it cannot tell you that a road is passable, that the ground is safe, or that you will have signal. Carry a map and compass of your own, tell someone where you are going and when you will be back, and never go into an abandoned mine.