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Does it work with no phone signal? Coverage in the Pyrenées is pretty good, and there were a couple of times when we'd got off the path and found geo-location useful (the French IGN mapping system is very good and free). But there were other times where it was unusable. Obviously we had a paper map and compass. It's never safe in the wilds without one. Even the best phone map doesn't extend far enough at once to pinpoint landmarks, for example. 7 comments
@regordane Yes, GeoJPG works offline on iOS and Android. If you can display landmarks in your area with the GISsurfer web map (one of my other projects) then you can make your own custom map that will include those landmarks and view that map offline with GeoJPG. I'm still not clear from that technoblurb whether or how geo-location works when offline. I'm also sure that the sort of person who gets separated on an office team-building trip is likely to be the sort of person who wouldn't be able to use this. @regordane Sure, not everyone is equally tech savvy. For a group event one person who is tech savvy could make the map and then show everyone how to install it. Just like anything else you learned, easy once you go through it a few times. An endless variety of software does geolocation offline using data from one or more satellite constellations. Erm, this would be excellent for a well-led group. The bad thing that happened is pretty clear evidence that the group was not well-led. @regordane Another thing for groups is to have one of the more experienced persons act as rear guard. That way no one ever gets left in the back on their own. Yes. Absolutely. This is one of the many things that went wrong, for sure. And not something that technology could have dealt with. |
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Also, never assume that a person is capable of reading a map.