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The comment I was replying to and point I was making wasnt about the implementation of individual maps. It was a general point about using a device to navigate
by daleharvey 5y ago
The comment I was replying to and point I was making wasnt about the implementation of individual maps. It was a general point about using a device to navigate vs paper maps.
(Ordnance survey maps are available for your phone)
- notatoad 5y agoI'm confused about the point you're trying to make then. As you say, hiking maps are available for your phone. You can use them if you want. So how exactly is this a failure of technology?
- daleharvey 5y agoA lot of people cannot, or dont feel like they can rely on a phone: Various functions including maps will die if your phone goes offline, your phone will chew through your battery even in situations where you really need it for one purpose, general purpose apps like google maps will work well enough until they put you to the top of a mountain without cell reception. These are all fairly easily solvable UX problems, users with enough knowledge can solve them but that to me is still a failure of technology.