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Old 09-23-2016, 07:11 PM   #10
Undertoad
Radical Centrist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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if want to explore the landscape your passing you need a much wider view.
All the wider views really, because one map won't actually do it for you, eventually you roll off the edge of it. So you will need all the maps.

pinch to zoom out
hamburger menu to select terrain
download of your entire route
done and done

I'm an original map geek. As a 10-year-old I studied the US Geological survey quadrangles. The detailed topographics. I was fascinated. We had the set for my area, but to get all of them, that was really something. An individual couldn't afford it... it took up a huge flat drawer system and you could only find a complete set at really major libraries. I remember Penn State had a copy. I spent hours browsing it one day.

But now?

pinch to zoom out... all the fascination is still there, now available in the palm of one's hand... for the entire freakin' world! What's not to love?
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