Poster: A snowHead
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I used ViewRanger last season for a while last season but we could never get the find a friend bit to work. Turns out ViewRanger has been bought out by Outdoor Active and im wondering if anyone has any experience with that app. How does it work for you, how does the find a buddy work, etc...
Fairly handy when trying to get two or three groups to meet up for lunch
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I've no experience of it myself, but a few friends in the hiking community seem to think its not an improvement on the viewranger app.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@skimottaret, I have been using viewranger for a number of years now and really like it. I have downloaded quite a lot of OS maps at 1:50,000 and 1:25,000, the Vanoise and a fair bit of the rest of the aples at 1:25,000 and a lot of the Dolomites at 1:50,000 scale (oddly still considered as part of Austria) and use it extensively for walking. Since I do little off piste skiing I don't use mapping apps as a rule while skiing. TBH I never knew there was a "find a friend" component. It is not a function I would find the slighest use for.
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@skimottaret, I used Viewranger out in Austria for hiking I bought the local maps and found it OK to use the mapping was very good, used the Outdooractive and it seems OK but they have given me a 3 months trial of the app because of teh loss of my maps, my go hiking app is Komoot, I find it easy to plan a route on a pc or laptop and the app works fine, I did by the worldwide maps, you don't get OS for the UK, teh guidance is good and when planning it uses recognised paths through fields and forest.
I haven't used find a buddy.
As you are in Essex check out Rambling Essex on Facebook
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thanks guys, I just had the freebie version of VR which seemed fine , looks like the subscription version of OA has IGN and OS maps plus Austria etc...
When we run multiple groups it is handy to be able to see where the others are. Pain constantly ringing or texting and interrupting instructors.. I see that WhattsApp allows you to share location so may just give that a try in future..
Although no substitute for proper maps the VR app worked very well doing limited touring and back country stuff and was useful to give routes taken to clients as a little momento
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@skimottaret, would skitracks be an option, it has a map of the route, not much info but you can export it as a gpx file then load it into any walking app.
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