The best bike routes tend to be in places with few cars and few people. Cellular system optimization leaves these areas with coverage that is spotty at best. The current generation smartphone mapping apps are all relying on this network with spotty rural coverage to deliver the local maps. These systems may not ever provide reliable mapping for cyclists.
Of course, complete map databases have been available for years both for PCs/laptops and also handheld GPSs. Does anybody know of an iphone or android app that uses a downloaded hi-res map? Nowadays, the martphones do have the memory to hold an entire national map. ...Roy On Nov 3, 11:04 pm, TJ Ramb <tjs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay - call me Mr technobabble, I'll have a GPS thanks! > > Mainly for navigation of back country adventures, but I only used my > computer for navigation anyway. > > I did learn along the way to be good at estimating how far I'd gone > over a variety of terrain in a certain amount of time, so that it > became decreasingly relevant. > > So many phones have gps now anyway - it's hardly leading edge, meaning > bike computers are now archaic! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
