[pct-l] Droid X GPS w/Halfmile's waypoints
Jim Bravo
jimbravo2 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 08:58:11 CDT 2011
Lisa:
Good info. I have downloaded the tiles into BCN at 15 zoom for the whole
trail. It was slow at my home in the foothills as we have weak cell
reception, so I would load the tiles in town where the reception was strong.
Lunch at Carl's Jr would do a whole section if I selected about 2 miles of
topo on each side of the trail trace. The whole trail only used 2.6 gb of my
16 gb card. I saved about 4 miles on each side of the trail plus some
potential exit trails in the high sierras and WA. In retrospect I wish I
would have saved more topo, I didn't realize it would use so little space on
the card.
Zinger
On Mar 18, 2011 3:14 AM, "ron guay" <ron.a.guay2 at gmail.com> wrote:
Nice instructions.
For other Android users who do not want to pay, there is an alternative app
called OruxMap. OruxMap doesn't have a cool name, but it has all of the
major features BCN does. I like the 'tracking' feature in OruxMap better,
but importing the PCT waypoints seems better in BCN...because of the
preservation of icons. I found that OruxMap has a map called Cloudmap that
had a very distinct red line representing the PCT. I'm not sure if it had
the whole trail but its worth checking out.
Also, I was able to download offline BCN maps (MyTopo) for each section of
the PCT with no memory issues...at a 15 zoom...etc.
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