Mobile GPS

>>1062592
So even though it is expensive the Gaia GPS app is well worth checking out. I have used it a number of times and can't find an issue with it so far.

Where were you in Spain? I am heading to walk the GR11 on Wednesday!

Get a real phone.

>>1062620
What does he mean by this?

Orux map

always get dedicated devices, if you break your phone you've lost a phone and gps, if you have a separate unit and you break your phone you still have a gps

>>1063256
>always get dedicated devices, if you break your phone you've lost a phone and gps, if you have a separate unit and you break your phone you still have a gps
This. It's why I carry both.

Phone's display is a huge battery suck. Airplane-mode, and stash it in my pack. Sometimes I'll stow it in my windshield bag; it's nice for photos, slope-angle measurements, snow profile logging, avalanche forecasts/obs. But most of the time it's just chilling in my pack.

GPS (76Cx) mounted to bars/dash. Loaded with topo or citynavigator maps. Logs tracks when I ride. Waterproof. Tough as fuck. Takes 12v right to the big-ass connector on the back. USB to push/pull tracks and waypoints to a computer.

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>>1063307
fuck, premature submissulation

I carry a map (topo and trails, usually) of the area, along with a compass. Have a notepad and fieldbook, along with pens/pencils/sharpies in a small cordura fieldbook holder.

If I fuck up my GPS (which has happened before, wrecked the moto and peeled my old 60CSx apart like a banana), I still have a phone if I need it.

My radio's got a GPS receiver in it, from the keypad I can get lat/long/elev/speed/heading. It's not much, but it's still a position I can jot down and communicate to others, or use to locate my position on a map.

PLB has a GPS, but no display. Not really ment for local use other than the button for when "Someone's gonna die at this lat/long, plz hurry".