[Gocamino] tablet data storage

[Sue Kenney]

Not sure if you heard about this...
So sad to hear of the train derailment in Santiago. My sincere thoughts and
prayers are with the friends and family of all of those involved.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377113/Spain-Train-Crash-At-35-people-dead-train-derails-near-Santiago-Compostela.html

Sue

Sue Kenney
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Grant Spangler <gaspangler at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Tim
>
> I have been lobbying the guys at PocketEarth to come out with an Android
> version, very happy to hear they're moving forward with that. I have a
> Nexus 7 to keep current with Google World, so that will be a definite
> addition.  Currently MapsWithMe is the best you can do in the Android
> market, also available for iOS devices. I sincerely hope to get to your
> lovely town at the foot of the pass. There are a number of Ways less
> traveled I'd like to walk this go .. El Primitivo, San Salvador, Portugues,
> the Vasco del Interior, El Invierno, among others. I hear the Frances is
> 'rather' busy these days. What's it like from your perspective?
>
> Buen Camino,
>
> Grant
>
> http://www.ElCaminoSantiago.com
> Resources for the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:16 AM, "Tim" <tim at errecaldia.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Grant, Bob and all.
> >    Just been checking and PocketEarth will shortly be available on
> Android which means all us Samsung and other smartphone users will have it.
> > Grant does this visit include a visit to SJPdP?
> > Regards
> > Tim
> >
> > On 24/07/13 15:29, Grant Spangler wrote:
> >> I'm currently sitting in LAX waiting for my 0650 flight to SEA.
> Yesterday I booked a three month passage LAX to MAD. The unlocked iPhone
> and iPad Mini will be making the trip with me. PocketEarth absolutely
> rocks. I have been in dialog with all the developers of offline maps, and
> the winner is unequivocally PocketEarth. I can email anyone tracks for all
> the major routes in Spain, and actually the Via Fancigena UK to Vatican,
> and the Camino from Konstanz DE to Santiago as well. The track can be
> imported into PocketEarth and - voila - you have a complete mapping guide
> in your pocket. I put all of Spain and Portugal into the device at a
> minimum, but you can add locations by city, province or country. Just going
> to be in Paris? No need to put in all of France. Just going to be in
> Castilla-Leon aNd Galicia? Load them alone. Brilliant stuff.
> >>
> >> Buen Camino
> >>
> >> Grant
> >>
> >> http://www.ElCaminoSantiago.com
> >> Resources for the Pilgrimage Road to Santiago
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jul 23, 2013, at 8:47 PM, "Robert Spenger" <rspenger at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> From: Robert Spenger <rspenger at earthlink.net>
> >>>> Date: July 23, 2013, 8:37:50 PM PDT
> >>>> To: "Santiagobis at yahoogroups.com" <Santiagobis at yahoogroups.com>
> >>>> Cc: "<Santiagobis at yahoogroups.com>" <Santiagobis at yahoogroups.com>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Santiagobis] electronic pilgrim
> >>>>
> >>>> As far as I can tell, MMDD has not yet been made available online,
> but both WisePilgrim (2.99?) and Eroski (free) provide similar data. For my
> own use, I cut out the pages I wanted from my MMDD hard copy and scanned
> them one at a time into my desktop. This way they come out as individual
> pictures which is not as convenient as in book form, but can be organized
> into a reasonable useful set. This was quite some time ago and I intended
> to use them in an ereader that I had at the time. Black and white only, so
> not too useful. On the iPad, they would work much better, but i haven't
> tried it out. The cutting and scanning is quite time consuming. Starting
> from scratch nowadays, I would check out Eroski and do a search for other
> possible new sources.
> >>>>
> >>>> I first learned about PocketEarth from Grant and after my first
> attempts at it, my reaction was, "Thank You -- I think." But after a lot of
> fiddling around, I began to catch on and started climbing up the steep
> learning curve. I wasn't able to find much in the application by way of
> instructions, but eventually learned what I needed to do. The end result
> was complete maps, with the routes and all the waypoints from published
> lists, of the Sarria to SdeC section and the Aragonés route from Oloron to
> Puente la Reina. I did not need it when I recently did the Sarria-SdeC bit,
> but I checked out a lot of stuff along the way just to get used to using
> it. It was time consuming to enter all the data that I wanted, but I was
> happy with the results and felt that it was worth the effort.
> >>>>
> >>>> PocketEarth data has to be entered when you are online, but once it
> is done, it is all stored in the iPad memory and available without internet
> access. Since the iPad has independent GPS, you can find your position on
> the maps.
> >>>>
> >>>> Sent from my iPad mini
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jul 23, 2013, at 5:02 AM, "Ron Brooks" <ronbrooks at ozemail.com.au>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dear Bob
> >>>>> Tell me more about Pocket Earth which does not need WiFi and also
> can I get a copy of MMDD electronically, where from?
> >>>>> Regards
> >>>>> Ron
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