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Delorme Earthmate App for mobile
alanb
557 Points
I got an email ad from Delorme on this today:
http://shop.delorme.com/OA_HTML/DELibeCCtdItemDetail.jsp?item=35408&promotion=10127§ion=10900
The Complete GPS Navigation Solution for Smartphones and Tablets
Earthmate is a mobile, full-featured GPS navigation app that's as unlimited as your adventures! As the best value in mobile GPS apps, Earthmate comes complete with unlimited access to all North America topographic maps for storage on your device, unlimited cloud storage of all your data, unlimited online routes and waypoint planning, and much more!
Includes North America Topo Maps, Public Lands, and U.S. NOAA Charts
Online Trip Planning
Route Navigation and Waypoints
High-detail GPS Trip Logging
Location Sharing and Tracking
Unlimited Maps and Cloud Storage
Designed for iOS (7.0 and later) and Android (4.0 and later) mobile devices
Regular Price: $29.95
http://shop.delorme.com/OA_HTML/DELibeCCtdItemDetail.jsp?item=35408&promotion=10127§ion=10900
The Complete GPS Navigation Solution for Smartphones and Tablets
Earthmate is a mobile, full-featured GPS navigation app that's as unlimited as your adventures! As the best value in mobile GPS apps, Earthmate comes complete with unlimited access to all North America topographic maps for storage on your device, unlimited cloud storage of all your data, unlimited online routes and waypoint planning, and much more!
Includes North America Topo Maps, Public Lands, and U.S. NOAA Charts
Online Trip Planning
Route Navigation and Waypoints
High-detail GPS Trip Logging
Location Sharing and Tracking
Unlimited Maps and Cloud Storage
Designed for iOS (7.0 and later) and Android (4.0 and later) mobile devices
Regular Price: $29.95
Comments
Have just spent awhile evaluating apps, and chosen Galileo ($3.00 for the pro version) on iOS and Oruxmaps (free) on Android. I am developing new versions of my own maps for both of these platforms and will make them available for free download.
I hadn;t thought about Delorme for quite some time until I got this email, It kind of rekindled some interest for me in what they are doing. Then I see Tim's post that he has been using this app for a couple of years? They sent out the email ad like this was something new?
So I logged into their forum (which I hadn't done for several years) to see what was being said. about the app. Sure enough ... nothing recent that would indicate a new product.. They do have a section for the Earthmate app ... and the posts do go back to 2013. But it is in their forum "InReach" section and they identify it as "Pairs your device with a DeLorme inReach 2-way communicator".
So my question to Tim (and others) is this: Is the email promo I got for "New Earthmate App for Mobile" really something new ... or just a way of renewing a marketing effort for something they have had for a couple of years?
By the way, DeLorme is basically the same DeLorme they have always been, for the good and bad. In other words, they never did ground truth verifications on most of their maps and relied on government organizations, forestry services, etc for mapping changes.
Therefore things like lane guidance are not really possible given their map collection and update methods. However credit must also be given for the fact that they fall into a small number of companies who actually have their own map data rather than licensing it from someone else.
PS: I am not including the Garmin Viago ($70+ and now discontinued :-S ) in the list of low-cost alternatives