Übernachtungsplätze und Pois (Sonstiges)

dare2go , mal wieder in Chile, Montag, 31. August 2015, 02:04 (vor 3155 Tagen) @ IVECO Tony
bearbeitet von dare2go, Montag, 31. August 2015, 02:24

Tony, the trouble is that in many, TOO MANY, locations iOverlander is not working.
I know our lists made it on there initially, but for me iOverlander is close to useless. Yes, I've been even a beta tester of their Android app, but did I get to use it? Particularly in Argentina, where I happened to be at the time, mobile access and specifically mobile data is so patchy (at least where we like to travel) that we hardly ever got a signal (or only Edge, which was too weak to get data)!

The one time I wanted to add a place, where by pure chance we got a weak WiFi signal from a school nearby, I found the process to enter my data and answer all questions so tedious that I almost gave up. Then the app did it for me: it crashed when I wanted to upload! Since there was no way to retrieve my previously typed entry I gave up and went back to naming my photos!

We move, we move in places which are remote, we have tons of stuff to do when we get the chance to go online, so I have no time to play with apps for other people's advantage. Sorry, but we keep a blog up, we sometimes despair that we can't keep it updated, we try to keep in contact with family and friends, we have a Facebook page which too often is dormant due to lack of internet access...

Yes, I could do all these things if I would stay home with some fast broadband! But I'm not. I know from many many other overlanders that they have exactly the same problems with lack of internet.

We find most of the time our own places, sometimes I learn afterwards that the same place is also on iOverlander, but I have never searched for a place on iOverlander and found one - not the handful of times I have looked.

As to GPX tracks: I use a tablet with Android apps for navigation and OSM maps, and honestly I have no idea how I could extract GPX tracks from it. Different technology to a Garmin.

People can take my camping list and do what they like (except re-distribute), but I don't jump through hoops to make some Garmin freaks happy. Plus personally I found in the past that o/n waypoints without any decent description are often more useless than no waypoints at all.

BTW: I have uninstalled the last beta, but since then I haven't even bothered to install the first 'official version' = that's how good I find it...
Okay, it might be that iOverlander is working better on an iPhone, I have no idea since I don't own one, I don't want one, I don't need one. It was after all originally produced for Apple products. But I doubt it would be better on iPhone, since it would rely on the same (often lacking) mobile access as an Android device!