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Including the OpenCycleMap in "My Tracks" #1505

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
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

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by jshih@google.com on 13 Oct 2014 at 7:43