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I am curious what everyone is using for getting around on their scoot.
Do you prefer a dedicated GPS unit? Which one?
Phone app/apps? Which ones? Do they have offline maps?
Dedicated old smartphone or just your EDC smartphone?
I had some issues this past weekend at Laconia with using my iPhone XR and Google Maps, I'm pretty simple and don't often care if I get lost, but I was leading a group Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I also don't usually have my phone mounted in view and only go off the voice directions which I lost the signal for more often than I had in the past up in the mountains. I have a suspicion that the Cell Network up there wasn't ready to handle the amount of people that actually went to Bike Week but I am considering tracking down an old Garmin or Tom Tom and slapping it in my fairing for lon rides or mounting an old iPhone with no service so that only the GPS radio does all the work with an app that you can download maps to.
Do you prefer a dedicated GPS unit? Which one?
Phone app/apps? Which ones? Do they have offline maps?
Dedicated old smartphone or just your EDC smartphone?
I had some issues this past weekend at Laconia with using my iPhone XR and Google Maps, I'm pretty simple and don't often care if I get lost, but I was leading a group Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I also don't usually have my phone mounted in view and only go off the voice directions which I lost the signal for more often than I had in the past up in the mountains. I have a suspicion that the Cell Network up there wasn't ready to handle the amount of people that actually went to Bike Week but I am considering tracking down an old Garmin or Tom Tom and slapping it in my fairing for lon rides or mounting an old iPhone with no service so that only the GPS radio does all the work with an app that you can download maps to.