I once received a "have you had PPI mis-sold" call when running in the Sierra Nevada in Spain. I suggested they consider their life choices, having ascertained that they'd studied law - such a waste.
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I once received a "have you had PPI mis-sold" call when running in the Sierra Nevada in Spain. I suggested they consider their life choices, having ascertained that they'd studied law - such a waste.
I have to agree with S. I love the ViewRanger app. It's brilliant. I've been on loads of new unknown to me paths and runs (pre lockdown) and it's just so easy to navigate quickly when running. Rather than the faff of getting a big paper map out. I do usually take a paper map just in case but have never needed to get it out. I've got a good few new runs waiting till we can travel a bit further. I have hours of fun plotting routes on ViewRanger.
Also tracking family members when they are out in the wilds gives peace of mind.
Photos are also another fab function.
My partner, who does have a smart phone (tut!), has access to my Ordnance Survey subscription and an OS app, which she uses a lot. I've just checked out ViewRanger for her after reading the above posts. However, reading some of the recent reviews of ViewRanger there's criticism that VR have "sold out" to "Outdoor Active" - what's that about?
She didn't install the VR app as it asks for credit card details. She's decided to stick with my OS subscription for now that I use on my Macbook pro and which I pay for :rolleyes:
Mossdog I don’t really know anything about Outdoor Active and their merger with ViewRanger. I think (but am really not sure about this) that on view ranger you can (or could) make your own routes available to other users and earn credits towards other maps that you needed to purchase and, as part of the merger, some users were worried they wouldn’t be able to do this anymore. That doesn't really bother me and I haven’t ever thought of sharing my routes through the app anyway.
I also have the OS app and the advantage of that is that you get the whole of the U.K. for an annual subscription. On ViewRanger you purchase the OS explorer map tiles that you need just like buying real maps. The big disadvantage to the OS map though is that it’s on-line only which means that maps can either take ages to load or, as we found in the wilds of Scotland, not load at all due to lack of internet
In defence of the OS map app, you can download bits at a time for when you know you'll be out of mobile range. And that's at no extra price. So you could go on a touring holiday, and just download the maps you needed for the following day - eg, if you had wifi at your stopovers.