Wednesday, Feb 15, 2017 at 19:52
Just one more thing about the maps available in the app - whilst there is only the high-scale (low detail) OFFLINE topo map (scale = 1:2.3 Million) you do also have access to the ONLINE maps - of which there is the full scale EOTopo at 144K with seamless zoom, PLUS the best Street mapping available for Australia, PLUS satellite image maps. All these map layers are switched from the map layer control icon in the top right corner of ALL MAP
VIEWS in the app. Always select and explore the various map options for your current location - I only ever choose the Streets map when I am at
home as this gives more detail in suburban/city/built up areas than a topo map. When I go into a regional or outback area then of course switching the map layer to topo is going to give far more information as the Streets maps never cover far beyond urban centres in sufficient detail. You can easily do this in our app from that control and with the installed
Places data you have interactive icons for all the interesting features along the way - do you realise that we feature the following Place types?
Caravan Parks, Free camps, Campgrounds, Roadhouses,
Toilets, PUbs, Quarantine points,
water supply points, historic trees,
grave sites and cemetaries,
sign posts, markers, outback intersections, trig points, vertical obstructions, uhf repeaters, mines, station/homesteads, towns, tourism points of interest, rail crossings, station gates, national parks, state forests,
reserves, water catchments, beaches, mountains, rivers, creeks, river crossings over dirt roads etc. Each place is indicated with a clear symbol on the map - clicking the symbol you can access more information, photos, reviews from other travellers and there is a button to press - "Go to" that instantly starts the navigation if you wish to travel there from your current position.
In the routing, you can sometimes just get straight line information but if online, you can often get turn by turn guidance following the roads - it is limited by the roads you select. With the included 182 Trek Notes, most of these roads are all offroad/remote areas where normally guided turn by turn routing with a line following the dirt road is not avaialble - but in our Trek Notes in the app they are. These trek notes also included all the
Places as points of interest along the way. Guided routing along Trek Notes is not possible from our website yet is free in the app with just the base product although you would likely prefer to have the more detailed map layer behind it to have a better reference it is still possible just to rely on the base app to follow these but why would you. For outback travellers who go off the grid/offline then you need the Premium maps - that is the way it is designed. However, we include that in the base product as for some people they can make use of the online maps that are the same scale 144K. It just required to purchase if you need to use the maps offline.
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