Join us for an outdoor Smartphone Navigation Tutorial, on Red Hill, on Sunday the 3rd of August. Expect to be out and about for about three hours. dress warmly for bushwalking and bring your lunch. We will gather near the Lunetta restaurant at about 10.30AM. Bring your smartphone, your bushwalking nav app, and any other nav gadgets you would like to cross compare. We will start our smartphone apps, then toddle towards Davidson Trig 750m. Expect slow going, much finger poking, many stops, and much chatter. We can load apps to your phone on the run. This is the first tutorial and these will continue to September.
Important information re smartphone nav can be found on the www site of Smartnav UK, read Myth Busting at https://smartnav.uk/?page_id=1894, also read https://smartnav.uk/?page_id=316. Then read on through this site.
For Android smartphone apps I recommend - Backcountry Navigator PRO TOPO GPS. See: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nmk9oqnotQ9R2alcjR1N4LL6T51UoW0YO_IKsWzjeEc/edit?pli=1#heading=h.nd96wbwhphgh, also Cartograph Maps at https://www.cartograph.eu/v3/help/, and Handy GPS at https://www.binaryearth.net/HandyGPS/.
For iPhone smartphone apps I recommend- Backcountry Navigator XE See: https://www.manula.com/manuals/crittermap/backcountry-navigator-xe/1/en/topic/using-the-app, also Cartograph Maps at https://www.cartograph.eu/v3/help/, and Handy GPS at https://www.binaryearth.net/HandyGPS/.
I suggest you do not use All Trails or Strava apps for bushwalking, these are for use within reach of phone towers.
When bushwalking your phone should be in Airplane Mode to save battery.
Learn to use Screen Pinning for Android or Guided Access for iPhone, this saves time and battery.
For local maps I recommend - SIX-NSW, LIST, Maps VIC, Q Topo, LINZ, Open Android, and Worldwide Imagery through Arc GIS.
Bring any other devices, apps or maps you would like to compare, and perhaps bring a notepad and pencil.