Ordnance SurveyOS Maps Premium annual subscription (gift card)

If you know little about someone's existing gear, this is the smart move: it's rarely a duplicate, it suits most UK hikers who navigate digitally wherever they walk, and it delivers instantly. Premium unlocks the full OS Explorer (1:25,000) and Landranger (1:50,000) mapping across Great Britain, with offline map downloads and route planning, and it's consistently the app editorial reviewers name as the leader. Crucially it's sold as a proper 12-month gift card (indicatively ~£35.99) rather than only a self-serve renewal, so it's genuinely giftable. The trade-off versus the physical picks is that it's experiential rather than an object to unwrap, and it's the wrong call for a committed paper-map traditionalist or anyone who already subscribes.