iPhiGéNie mapping app

[BlackRocker57]

Help required! Just wondering if any fellow pilgrims, especially those on the GR65, have used the iPhiGeNie mapping app ... it is an excellent app, but i am struggling to use it effectively and the user manual is difficult to follow ... I would love to hear from and correspond with anyone who has figured out how to navigate it, in particular how to calculate distances between marked waypoints.

 

[Kanga]

Yes @BlackRocker57 , we have used iPhiGeNie extensively walking in France - on the GR65, often wandering off camino, and making our own way through the Loire Valley from Orlean and south from Tours, and walking an on/off route from Arles. I also struggled with the user manual. It would be great if there was one written in English and available offline - I know there is a sort of a one but it seems to be a google translate job and I have trouble finding my way through it.

That said, the app itself in the field I find invaluable. I do spend a lot of time downloading tiles into the cashe, so that I have all the scales and can zoom in and out with ease. It is probably taking up a heap of storage space on my phone! But wonderful that you can see instantly where you are, and all the roads, tracks, even buildings around - and all the GRs.

I have to say that in calculating distances we tend to use a very rough and ready measure - zooming in and working it out by using the scale tool. I, like you, have never mastered the waypoint tools.

 

[BlackRocker57]

Yes @BlackRocker57 , we have used iPhiGeNie extensively walking in France - on the GR65, often wandering off camino, and making our own way through the Loire Valley from Orlean and south from Tours, and walking an on/off route from Arles. I also struggled with the user manual. It would be great if there was one written in English and available offline - I know there is a sort of a one but it seems to be a google translate job and I have trouble finding my way through it.

That said, the app itself in the field I find invaluable. I do spend a lot of time downloading tiles into the cashe, so that I have all the scales and can zoom in and out with ease. It is probably taking up a heap of storage space on my phone! But wonderful that you can see instantly where you are, and all the roads, tracks, even buildings around - and all the GRs.

I have to say that in calculating distances we tend to use a very rough and ready measure - zooming in and working it out by using the scale tool. I, like you, have never mastered the waypoint tools.

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Hallo Kanga, many thanks for this ... I was thrilled to get your reply and to know that you are a keen user of this fab app! It seems that we have both had similar experiences with the manual ... it is almost certainly a google-translate job, and an unedited one at that, making it almost impossible to follow

i am not so fussed about calculating distances between waypoints, but it would be ‘nice to know’ ...

what i would really like to know [and perhaps you can help me with this one] is how to download tiles to the cache so that you/i can pinpoint exactly where you are/I am on the chemin; how to do this in logical sequence for the length of the chemin [from, say, Moissac to StJPP] and ...

better still, and perhaps most importantly, how to download plans or tiles for each stage [if this is possible?] ... for example, is it possible to download and access from the cache a plan for the stage from Moissac to Auvillar ... if you can walk or talk me through this i would be very grateful ... and happy to do this offline, by email or phone [as i see you are not so far away from me] if you are agreeable and that suits ... in the meantime, merci beaucoup pour votre aide et a bientôt