Hiking Asheville NC With Your Android Phone

by | Sep 22, 2011 | asheville, hiking

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One of the most well liked sports today that can be enjoyed alone or with family is hiking. It is cheap and doesn’t require any special equipment except a good solid pair of trainers, comfortable attire and most significantly, a map. It is always useful to carry terrain maps of maintained tracks and to take a break continually to test the area. Map-reading is more significant when one ventures off a well trodden path. On adventure walks, plotting a course becomes much more crucial and significantly complicated. Hiking on a deserted natural area alone and without a map is inviting catastrophe as the prospect of getting lost is high. The introduction of GPS-enabled devices changed the way we all travel.

Since the launch of GPS-enabled Android cell phones, the mobile market has gone through a gigantic transition. Among various features of an Android phone, the most valuable is its capacity to function as a navigation device. Android phones have already made a contribution to the amazing transition in the way folk hike. The Android GPS can receive location from GPS satellites with no regard for the location. If you’re in areas with no signal your GPS will work, but you will need a program that stores maps on the phone to utilize it. With an ideal Android hiking app to read pre-downloaded maps even without network coverage, an Android phone turns into a able out of doors GPS machine.

One of the best and must have Android hiking app is the kind that can let you store hiking maps and aerial pictures to your storage card and use it while out of doors even without network coverage. With the use of GPS for navigating, you can see the hiking terrain and your location on those maps. Support for radio-based connectivity is also one of the serious traits of a good Android hiking app. It must enable the user to download GPS maps and info on the go and must also have the capability of storing custom way points. Another critical feature that a good Android app must possess is access to topo maps of USA and Canada among the selection of map sources because all of these maps are free or public domain.

Nevertheless if you download maps using your cellular phone, the correspondent information transference charges incurred will be billed by your service supplier. An Android hiking app with wi-fi capacity is another feature that everyone should look for. This can give users an opportunity to download maps when hooked up to wi-fi hot spots away from home, store it, and then view it through through the same hiking app even in areas without network coverage. Having a GPS-enabled Android telephone together with a good hiking app is really helpful when you go for a hike especially if you’re not familiar with the place. A good hiking app must support current and future Android powered telephones with GPS capacities.

One of the best hiking applications for Android can be purchased and downloaded from the Android Market. An Android phone and a trusty Android hiking app is an ideal pair for hiking fans. It not only guides them with their exact location and point of direction, it also shows them other places which they can add to their list of future walks.

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