It is possible to download various map apps while in a service area, then
switch to "Airplane" mode. The gps still works, showing with great accuracy
where one is on the map. I've birded a variety of places for the first time
where access to satellite/airphotos showed intriguing and ultimately
productive landscapes I hadn't imagined.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:54 AM Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Interesting. I didn’t know you could do that. I’m not very modern.
Alan Contreras
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
Eugene, Oregon
www.alanlcontreras.com
Attending Christmas Bird Counts with good weather forecasts.
On Nov 15, 2019, at 10:29 AM, Nagi Aboulenein <nagi.aboulenein@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Service is not really necessary unless you want to have satellite maps. If
you’re willing to settle for non-satellite maps, you can download any
region as a Google Maps offline map, which Google Maps will automatically
switch to when there is no service. Taghrid and I have found that
invaluable many, many times, especially when traveling overseas. Google
Maps will prompt you around once a month to update the maps (in case of
foreign maps, updates may be less frequent).
Anyways, offline maps are a very useful feature for us birders, who often
find ourselves in no-service areas.
Good birding,
Nagi
On Nov 15, 2019, 10:22 AM -0800, Alan Contreras <acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx>,
wrote:
Google Maps helps in some areas but make sure you actually have service to
use them.
Alan Contreras
acontrer56@xxxxxxxxx
Eugene, Oregon
www.alanlcontreras.com
Attending Christmas Bird Counts with good weather forecasts.
On Nov 15, 2019, at 9:25 AM, Thomas Gilg <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here’s a reminder that the Oregon Birding Association (OBA) is maintaining
a list of Christmas Bird Count (CBC) opportunities for 2019-2020 at:
https://oregonbirding.org/cbc/
The OBA is doing an awesome job of pulling this information together,
which help’s newbies like me plug in. Hopefully all the CBC coordinators
are also keeping the OBA up to date.
And on a side note, does anyone have experience converting paper CBC zone
maps to say Google Maps (kmz files)? My second CBC experience involved
paper maps on logging roads in the Cascades, and having everything Google
Map ized would have helped.
--tg
