ExplorOz Traveller App

Hi Stephen,

Yes, religiously at present. I still absolutely love OziExplorer.

My Hema 6 is getting a little dated and the Hema 7 is no longer available new.

How do you like the X-1 that doesn’t use Ozi?

I don’t, as you can not add your own maps.

For that very reason, my main unit now is still the HN7. The street navigation on the HX1 is extremely good and can not fault it.

I just don’t like changes and wish Hema never went away from the HN7, instead gone to a HN 8.......lol

Having said that, I still use the old HN6 in the Golf.


Cheers

Stephen

If this is for me Michelle I last used tracking about 10 days ago, since October last year I use tracking on all trips and I have a nephew that keeps track of where we are when we are on the road.

I have only used what I needed initially and I found out about the walking bit because I had a better look at Traveller on the iPad.

Regards Paul H

Thanks Paul but my question was to the OP actually. But of course happy to hear you're getting out and using it too.

Interesting that you mentioned the use of the app for walking and had noticed my hiking Track Log posted to the our Facebook group. So glad we had the app and our phones that day as although we never intended to use it, we found that the trail was not well marked and towards the end of what we intended as a 12km hike we made a mistaken turn and once we realised how far offcourse we'd gone we opened the app and dropped a marker on the map where we knew our car was parked, then did a quick GoTo and the app showed us the best way to get there from our current position - which gave the true routing and distance. Whilst we had to divert and add another 3 or so kilometres it showed us a track that we couldn't see/was not signed and showed us that proceeding ahead to follow this route was better than turning back and retracing our steps to where we made the wrong turn. If you look at the route you'll see the odd looking triangle course change - that's the extra part we didn't intend to do but it was comforting to know the distance left to go and to see the app had auto-routed that route as the best option from our current stuff up.

(PS: I had tracking enabled hence the hike was tracked even though I wasn't actively using it for the hike as we were just following the trail). Just goes to show you how you will never know when you'll need to use it. We carry our phone and have the app tracking all the time for this reason - we are always going exploring ;)

Michelle,

Last used tracking on our trek through WA to the Kimberley, etc. About 3 years ago.
Queried my problem with inaccuracy at the time. We were in Alice Springs on our return leg to Adelaide and the App showed a phantom triangular trip to Perth, Brisbane and Alice Springs. We didn’t go to Perth or Brisbane on that trip. The recorded route also didn’t follow the road we were on and appeared as straight lines at times. Those were early days and David identified a problem with running the App on an iPhone (4) at that time.
Appears great now and I will play with it some more.