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Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android

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Den 2016-07-19 skrev Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com>:
> On 19 Jul 2016 11:26:15 GMT, Martin Schöön wrote:
>
>> Is it the Open Street Maps that stinks or the app? Where are you using
>> these?
<snip>

> But if you are always hiking off trail in rugged terrain (think two 
> thousand or more feet change in elevation in a single hike), then the OSM 
> maps are horrendously inaccurate.
>
> So, for most people, OSM maps are fine. 
> And for road driving, OSM maps are fine.
> They just suck for off-trail use where there is a cliff on one side and a 
> ravine on the other and a mistake makes a difference because of the rule of 
> ravine (which is once you start into a ravine, you're in it until it meets 
> a lake or ocean which is miles from where you started).
>
Thanks, exactly the kind of background information on where and how needed.

>> Where I live (Sweden) I have found both Here and Open Street Map to
>> be more accurate than Google's maps.
>
I only had road use in mind. In Google maps I have found non-existing
streets and lagging behind Here and OSM in updating when new roads are
built.

For cross country trekking I would go for some kind of topographical
map instead.

>
> I use GPS *all the time* when hiking. 
> I put the device in airplane mode so that the authorities can't track me, 
> and I just use the GPS to figure out where I am.
>
> PS: I run into illegal stuff all the time so I don't want to be tracked.

*Now* you have our attention :-)

/Martin

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FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 00:17 +0000
  Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Bob <Bob@the.builder> - 2016-07-19 04:33 -0500
    Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-07-19 14:50 +0100
      Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Bob <Bob@the.builder> - 2016-07-19 10:23 -0500
      Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 21:24 +0000
        Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-20 20:28 +0000
    Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> - 2016-07-19 19:18 +0100
      Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Bob <Bob@the.builder> - 2016-07-19 14:09 -0500
        Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 21:44 +0000
    Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 19:22 +0000
      Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 20:52 +0000
        Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-19 18:22 -0400
          Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 23:00 +0000
            Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-19 19:13 -0400
          Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android crankpuss <undisclosedUserid@gmail.com> - 2016-07-20 15:17 -0600
  Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 11:26 +0000
    Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-19 23:01 +0000
      Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Martin Schöön <martin.schoon@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 20:33 +0000
        Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-21 21:48 +0000
      Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-07-22 03:06 -0400
        Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-22 15:02 +0000
  Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android bluelou@duenorth.com - 2016-07-19 19:58 -0300
  Re: FYI ... here are my offline GPS map apps on Android Aardvarks <aardvarks@a.b.c.com> - 2016-07-30 17:18 +0000

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