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Overheard a guy say GPS tracks are useless in dense forest and had to test it
Last weekend I was at a gear shop in Asheville and some older hiker was telling the clerk that GPS tracks always fail under heavy canopy. I thought he was just being old school but then I ran my regular Blue Ridge loop on Saturday and my phone GPS drift was like 30 feet off in the thickest parts. I ended up relying on my paper map twice just to stay on the actual trail. Has anyone else noticed their tracks getting wonky in really dense woods or do I just need a better device?
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hollym8225d ago
Just keep your phone in airplane mode to stop it hunting for signal.
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parker_jones5025d ago
Flip that logic around and watch your battery last way longer. Airplane mode stops the phone from burning power trying to lock onto satellites, but it also kills any offline map caching you might need. Do you run a dedicated GPS unit, or are you trusting a phone app with downloaded topo layers?
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