[pct-l] GPS ?

[Brian Lewis]

Mango asked:
"What about the best gps apps for a Blackberry?? My service is with AT&T, if
that makes any difference.?"

Second question first: no, cell service provider is irrelevant, unless I'm
fundamentally misunderstanding what you want to do.

First question: The catch here is, if I recall correctly, Blackberry has
their own proprietary operating system, which very likely means a lot
smaller selection of GPS topo applications.  You'll need to search the web,
unless you're lucky enough that someone monitoring this list has already
figured it out for you (if it's do-able).

It also depends on what you want.  Might be challenging or even impossible
(?) if you want a real-time topo map to show up at good resolution with the
PCT trace and your current location displayed.
What I suspect you might end up going with instead is carrying paper maps,
hopefully that have UTM coordinates, and just reading coordinates off your
blackberry and finding your location on the paper map.  My recollection is
that the Wilderness Press PCT guides (SoCal, NorCal, OR/WA) are anticipated
to add GTM coords to their maps in future, but don't have them yet --- they
offer no coords.    Eric the Black's PCT Atlas series does offer UTM, so
that might be a way to do, or print out (a bazillion sheets) and mail or
bounce wads of Halfmiles maps using his site, http://www.pctmap.net/

In fact, you might contact Halfmile privately, halfmile at pctmap.net, because
I know he owns a blackberry, and likely has some better, more specific help
for you.

Completely unrelated, I strongly, heartily second the plea for folks to not
include all of a digest entry when replying --- it makes it more tedious for
us other digest readers.   Now, if we could also selectively remove content
from digest entries based on other criteria ... dreaming, I guess!


Brian Lewis / Gadget '08
http://postholer.com/brianle