When traveling or just exploring, when going through jungles or cities, through
walleyes or over mountains, looking at an open community of accessible trails -
before deciding on your own path to follow - gives you an overview of your
surroundings, that's incomparable with even the best and most expensive paper
maps (which - bye the way - take up twice the space of your phone, gets more
rippled than your brain, and folds out to one handy paper kite!)
At the core of any future explorations, lies the quality & détail of the Map.
Now, the map I'm referring to is created by an open community
(www.opencyclemap.org).
In the places I have used this map (Scandinavien and southern Europe), it is
easily as important to hiking/running and exploring, as it is to biking.
So for me personally - and many others (in many different countries) - the
Open'Cycle'Map (OCM), is - by far - the most valuable feature to be found in
any fitness/navigation/exploration app.
The importance of the OCM can't be overstated.
At Wikiloc.com you can plan/draw your route in this map, but in the Wikiloc
app, you can only see/follow your route in Googles standard maps... not in the
OCM.
Viewing your position in the OCM, is an extremely useful feature, especially
when going through unknown territory or deviating from your planed route,
whether this is accidental or not.
Including the OCM as a layer in "My Tracks" would be a huge improvement.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by esbensae...@gmail.com on 4 May 2014 at 9:44
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
esbensae...@gmail.com
on 4 May 2014 at 9:44