Übernachtungsplätze und Pois (Sonstiges)

IVECO Tony , Wherever., Mittwoch, 02. September 2015, 13:26 (vor 3161 Tagen) @ dare2go
bearbeitet von IVECO Tony, Mittwoch, 02. September 2015, 13:36

Yes valid points that apply to any app requiring on-line access which is why I download the database and install it on my PC and Garmin. I don't rely on a smarphone or a non-existant phone service. Over-reliance on smart technology isn't smart and for the same reason, I like having a paper map available.Takes a couple of minutes to do and by downloading the entire continent when we move into a new country, it is up to date. The majority of overlanders wouldn't be using iOverlander if it wasn't of some use. No, I imagine it isn't their only source of info.

Yes, a lot of the older entries are of limited use which is why I deselect any place that hasn't been updated within three years and of course that also applies even more so with blogger lists because there is limited opportunity for correction. On that criteria alone, most blogger lists available would be de-selected. Every iOvelander site I visit, I correct, update or augment, and not only via the check-in facility, because I am not averse to rewriting a good deal of the original entry simply because the downloaded information only shows the original entry so if that was wrong or fanciful, then it will always be so unless edited.

Yes, many of the entries are merely roadside stops and many obviously written by lazy people, or the result of the original harvesting process, but that applies equally to blog posts and there are avid blogger overlanders who seem to only ever overnight in the backs of service stations or roadside clearings which doesn't really add much to the sum knowledge base because there aren't many service stations or roadside clearings that will refuse if you ask nicely.Naturally iOverlander has more than its fair share of those places.

As I said, the main advantage of evolving databases is just that - they are not dead lists and are subject to review and criticism. iOvelander, like similar offerings such as wikicampsAustralia/USA/Canada are fully functional off-line and most important of all provide graphical map interfaces - also off-line - that are useful to everyone not just those with either an intimate knowledge of a countries geography or an innate ability to judge the relative location of a point defined by coordinates on a list. As an example of the difference that evolution makes, most blogger lists are static and rapidly growing out-of-date, but the ioverlander lists are growing and the one for Turkey which had three places when I entered a few months ago now has 63 places and that growth happens because subsequent travellers see the use of it and add to the database. On the other side, I have marked a lot of places now unavailable as CLOSED so they don't persist in future downloads. Evolution.

I've got dozens of travellers lists of their camping spots up and down the Americas and they are stored on Firefox's Scrapbook which is fully searchable but none of the lists are really much use when it comes to planning a possible overnight stop somewhere along our possible route. I've got Phil and Angie's complete database also on my GPS and have used it occasionally, but it is now 5 years old and enough of the places are just not there anymore that it it is becoming less and less useful.

To each his own.

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Tony Lee
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