Smartphone Navigation for Bushwalkers

Begin or brush up your smartphone navigation with a series of one hour tutorials with host Peter Conroy on Tuesday and Thursday evenings via the www. Tutorials will run through June, July and perhaps August. I will be using Google Meet Pro software and you will not need any software at your end, just your desktop, laptop, or at a stretch your smartphone, and a web browser. Join us when you wish and stay as long as you wish. I will need your email address so that I can send you the Google Meet blue link at about 7.15PM on Thursday evening .

There are many possible navigation apps available but I suggest that we focus on those that will, run out of reach of telephone towers, run when the smartphone is in Airplane mode, run on multi day bushwalks, never ask you to log on, have a one time fee, have many and mostly free and local maps, allow you to own your track and waypoint data.

If you wish to do some homework then I suggest for:
"A Smartphone Navigation Overview" .... Go to: https://sites.google.com/peterconroy.org/smartphonenav/home and request clearance to view.
"Android smartphones":.... "Backcountry Navigator GPS PRO". (NOT BCN XE) This app is, self contained software not a Progressive Web App, has a one time fee, no subscription, and is a fully featured professional app. A full manual for the app is on line at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nmk9oqnotQ9R2alcjR1N4LL6T51UoW0YO_IKsWzjeEc/edit
"iPhone smartphones":.... See "Gaia GPS" if you are very rich, See "Backcountry Navigator XE" if you are not so rich, or Handy GPS" if you are not at all rich. Anthony Dunk is a bushwalker who lives near Gosford NSW, Anthony wrote Handy GPS with Australian bushwalkers in mind and this is not a PWA. Go to: https://www.binaryearth.net/HandyGPS/ then pan down and under iPhone, view the video of AD and review help files. Choose the one time fee.
"Screen Pinning":.... for both Android and iPhones see: https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/s/screen-pinning.htm