Hello community,
after being a bit disappointed with the lack of detail in most Garmin maps, and even more so having to view them on the GPS receiver's tiny, low-resolution screen, I decided to create a little app to view the SA 1:250 000 series offline. Although that means the app is not so little storage wise - at the moment I've only got the Western Cape covered and it weighs in at around 2 GB - it is very simple. The only functionality is basically panning/zooming/viewing the map and displaying/tracking your location. I use for added "situational awareness" if you like, in conjunction with a GPS using T4A doing the navigating.
Recently I've had some interest from a few friends who want to use the app as well, and have asked for increased coverage. So I thought I might as well clean it up, make the maps a bit more presentable by adding some terrain effects and cover the entire country. If I invest my free time to do that though, I'd like to know that people will actually use it as well.
So, will there be any interest among you guys for something like this? The biggest hurdle to using it will be storage space, I guesstimate the whole country will require ~ 15 GB. At the moment, it's also only for Android, but it can quite easily be made available for iOS as well.
It will also be free, of course.
Attached below are some screenshots to give an idea of what it looks like.
Thanks!
Phil.
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