Before I put my $0.02 in I want to explain what I do and what I am using currently:
I go on 4x4 trips out in the deserts of California and Nevada, although I have a trip planned to Utah later this summer. I go on 5 day trips 4+ times per year with a group of friends. We explore the desert, abandoned mines and ghost towns.
I am currently using a Samsung Galaxy A 9” tablet that I mount on a bracket I made for my truck. I am using Backcountry Navigator Pro.
This is what I would like in a mobile GPS app:
1. Unlimited map storage. BCN limits the size of cached map files. Rather than have areas saved I would like to put the entire state of California and Nevada in a map file I can access when out in the middle of nowhere. Because we go to remote places a cloud based solution won't work for me. Besides that my tablet is only Wi-Fi enabled.
2. Track recording: It isn't clear in BCN how I can record a track over three days. I've paused track recording when I stop to camp for the night then resumed in the morning. Sometimes it works, sometime it doesn't.
3. Ability to choose what gets exported: I would like to choose what I export rather than the way BCN works now which is all waypoints get exported. I would like to take only waypoints that are associated with a track when I export. The ability to choose would be nice.
I went from a Magellan SporTrak from about 2003 to the tablet a year ago. Overall I am very satisfied with BCN but there are these things I would change. To give BCN some credit I am able to navigate better than I ever could in the past and I am now the group navigator as a result. Also they developed an app that serves users of varying activities. Hikers, bikers, and even 4x4 explorers. Really it isn't bad and for $12 it's great.
Bob
I go on 4x4 trips out in the deserts of California and Nevada, although I have a trip planned to Utah later this summer. I go on 5 day trips 4+ times per year with a group of friends. We explore the desert, abandoned mines and ghost towns.
I am currently using a Samsung Galaxy A 9” tablet that I mount on a bracket I made for my truck. I am using Backcountry Navigator Pro.
This is what I would like in a mobile GPS app:
1. Unlimited map storage. BCN limits the size of cached map files. Rather than have areas saved I would like to put the entire state of California and Nevada in a map file I can access when out in the middle of nowhere. Because we go to remote places a cloud based solution won't work for me. Besides that my tablet is only Wi-Fi enabled.
2. Track recording: It isn't clear in BCN how I can record a track over three days. I've paused track recording when I stop to camp for the night then resumed in the morning. Sometimes it works, sometime it doesn't.
3. Ability to choose what gets exported: I would like to choose what I export rather than the way BCN works now which is all waypoints get exported. I would like to take only waypoints that are associated with a track when I export. The ability to choose would be nice.
I went from a Magellan SporTrak from about 2003 to the tablet a year ago. Overall I am very satisfied with BCN but there are these things I would change. To give BCN some credit I am able to navigate better than I ever could in the past and I am now the group navigator as a result. Also they developed an app that serves users of varying activities. Hikers, bikers, and even 4x4 explorers. Really it isn't bad and for $12 it's great.
Bob