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jefe 4x4 wrote:
I'm still a believer in Pocket Earth. Installed on Jeanie's ipad, It has gotten us thru terrible city traffic and enlightened our navigation of the outback.
http://pocketearth.com/
You can download the whole world if you want to, map wise.
The significant difference in P.E. and GPS, once you download, there is no internet connection involved, no connection of any kind. You can follow along your route with an arrow curser and the maps are in layers; interactive, even way out beyond internet coverage area. This is important difference in mapping programs for the off-road campers. Different things appear at different levels as you tele in and wide out. For the price it cannot be beat. Well, maybe if they pay you to take it could be beat. National Geographic's wonderful mapping software was put out of business by the Pocket Earth people and Nat Geo dropped their support of their very expensive mapping software upon P.E.'s unveiling. I need to upgrade our 1st gen to the 2nd generation, which I read has some clarity upgrades. If you have an iMac, Ibook, or iphone, the price is right.
It would be good to have a critique on all the current mapping programs for us off-road XTC types. Maybe on roads and routes, which, unfortunately doesn't get much traffic from us hard core TC'ers.
I have no affiliation with P.E. and paid the same price you will pay. 8<)
jefe

Thanks Jefe, I just bought the Pro version for $2.99. The apps store description says it's optimize for iPhone 6 and 6+ and all reviews are all 5 stars so that got me to push the Buy button. There is also a free version. I wonder if it's optimise for the 6+ barometer sensor to get accurate altitude.

Going winter camping during holiday break and try it out.

-Virgil and Maria