The unglamorous week that everything depends on
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No new screens this week. Instead: the data underneath every screen got fresh, and stays fresh, and now tells us when it isn't.
Navigation, turn-by-turn and offline routing
View All TagsNo new screens this week. Instead: the data underneath every screen got fresh, and stays fresh, and now tells us when it isn't.
Two threads this week, and they meet in the same place: the moment you stop looking at a phone and start riding.
Here is the uncomfortable truth about a navigation app for adventure riding: the better the road, the worse the coverage. The places worth going are exactly the places your phone gives up.
So this fortnight we made the phone stop needing us.
A week ago FastGIS was a browser tool for running GRASS modules. This week it learned to plan a motorcycle route — and it turns out those two things want the same foundations.