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I know. I have it on my android phone
Lee, Select Spain maps. Zoom to any town or city along the Camino and you should see a blue line with the Camino shell symbol at increments along it. That is the route (its not the same route format that you might be familiar with on a GPS where a route is a series of waypoints and the unit navigate from point to point). But this will bring you back on track if you get off. When you are using the map the dish symbol in the upper right corner will turn green when you have satellite connection. Touching the symbol in the lower left will place your position on the map. It moves when you walk like the symbol on an auto gps. Let me know if you have any more problems. You will not be the same person after your journey and there are no real worries of being lost ....
No, that's the point of having offline maps, for when you don't have data available or don't want to use it.
Lee, Select Spain maps. Zoom to any town or city along the Camino and you should see a blue line with the Camino shell symbol at increments along it. That is the route (its not the same route format that you might be familiar with on a GPS where a route is a series of waypoints and the unit navigate from point to point). But this will bring you back on track if you get off. When you are using the map the dish symbol in the upper right corner will turn green when you have satellite connection. Touching the symbol in the lower left will place your position on the map. It moves when you walk like the symbol on an auto gps. Let me know if you have any more problems. You will not be the same person after your journey and there are no real worries of being lost ....
Lee, walk with no expectations, an open mind, an open heart and an open soul and both you will be fine..... and most of all wide foot boxed light hikers, lower laces loose, a good liner sock and a light over sock (merino if possible), remove when you arrive each day and lubricate sore muscles and bones from the inside with plenty of cold beer and red wine ....
I just checked and the Northern Camion Route is there also in blue. My GPS runs in airplane mode. (android). When zooming in on Almeria in South Spain I could not find Camion route. Even without the route the app in combination with a guide book will be useful ....Thank you - I know it sounded like a stupid question! But wait, there's more!
I wasn't sure if "offline" just meant you didn't need wifi. I thought perhaps utilizing a phone's gps required data. So to be clear.....
One can use the phone's gps - therefore not only using offline maps, but also seeing one's real-time position in them - without using data, correct?
If I'm in the habit of keeping my phone in airplane mode when I hike to save battery - I assume I'd need to stop doing that in order to utilize the gps, and therefore the offline maps?
Are all these apps basically just variations on a theme - people try out one or several of them, and pick their favorite? I mean, Maps.me, Locus, RealTrek, Galileo, etc...... they all do essentially the same thing?
Or, and here is where my confusion/tech-fear really sets in..... do I need to also find and download camino "tracks" into these apps?
It sounds like Locus automatically has the Frances? Do others? And more importantly for me in 2 weeks, what about non-Frances caminos? I'll be walking the Mozarabe from Almeria before joining the VdlP/Sanabres.
I think I can answer a couple of these questions, although I am not a tech person. "Offline" means you have already downloaded the maps (probably when you did have wifi) so they are stored in your phone's memory. So, you can use them without further wifi or data.
