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  1. russellg99

    Gear report from our first 11 days

    My wife and I just returned from our first 11 days on the Camino Francés, and I've posted a summary on our blog of what gear worked and what didn't. There are as many opinions on what to take with you as there are people you can ask, but maybe this will help someone in their planning...
  2. russellg99

    iPhone GPS apps in offline mode?

    Hi, I'm the original poster. I tracked our first day of the Camino with GPS Kit a few days ago, from SJPP to Valcarlos, just to see how the tracking works. It was 3 hrs 46 min and it used 40% of my iPhone 5 battery charge. That's an average of about 10.7% per hour. I didn't really need to...
  3. russellg99

    iPhone GPS apps in offline mode?

    Yes, GPS Kit works the same way as far as caching maps goes. It has a nice interface where you can trace an area with your finger, and it'll show you how many MB of data it'll be before it downloads it. It also implies that certain map providers might have limits on the size of data that can be...
  4. russellg99

    iPhone GPS apps in offline mode?

    Hi Karl, Yeah, I wasn't too clear on that. What I meant was that if you drop a waypoint, the distance and direction to it are not updated in real-time as you walk. You have to back out of the waypoint page and then go back into it again to see the updated distance and direction. Whereas with...
  5. russellg99

    iPhone GPS apps in offline mode?

    Hi Margaret, They don't actually have a feature to pre-cache the maps like the Google Maps app on Android does, but I've found that if you zoom in to a location and then go offline (disable WiFi and pull out your SIM card from the slot on the side of the iPhone), they seem to keep the map data...
  6. russellg99

    iPhone GPS apps in offline mode?

    Thanks for all the great replies. After trying several apps, it looks like GPS Kit is going to be the winner. It's $9.99 for the iPhone app, but so far I'm very impressed for what you get for the high price. It can display several different types of maps (Google Street, Google Satellite, Google...
  7. russellg99

    iPhone GPS apps in offline mode?

    I'm looking for an iPhone app that can show my GPS position on a map of the area, and calculate the distance from me to a particular location I've selected -- all while offline. Both the built-in Maps app and the Google Maps app can do most of that, but not the distance calculation without...

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