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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Underground
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Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Underground
Posts: 35
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my take
I don't have any experience with a dedicated off-road unit. But my wife and I are doing some back country driving around the mountains of CO.
We carry a DeLorme gazetteer of topos for my state, which is useful for getting the big picture of things.
We've been using or iPhones for mapping with the Pocket Earth app. We downloaded the Colorado topo maps for Pocket Earth. They are as accurate as any other topo I've found for CO in years of dirt biking.
It's really useful to be able to zoom in and out on the screen, see a larger picture of the terrain, figure out where to turn, know exactly where you are, etc. But an iPhone (even with a large screen like ours - iphone 11) is pretty small.
So we just ordered an iPad 10.2". Don't know how I'll mount it yet but it'll work in my wife's lap for now.
So my vote is for an iPad type device.
From my point of view it'll also serve as my business computer when I travel - I have fairly minimal needs when I'm on the roads. I'll get a lot of use out of it that way.
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