What's illegal?
Would bone conduction headphones (which don't block normal hearing) with spoken directions fall foul?
I wonder whether my hearing aids would fall foul
What's illegal?
Similar'ish to the way I tour, pretty well deciding each evening what to do/where to go tomorrow. Each evening I prepare tomorrow's route on https://cycle.travel, download it to my GPS and mostly follow that route (with interesting diversions). In practice I tend to prepare a couple of days in advance just in case I'm somewhere without internet connection, but each evening I decide for tomorrow and adjust/update a couple of days ahead (as and if I have time/power). And having turn by turn allows me to look at the countryside/villages I'm cycling through rather than navigation. That's just what I enjoy about touring, others enjoy other aspects (as well).stevemelia wrote: ↑15 Oct 2021, 10:31am Thanks for all those comments. They are very useful.
In answer to the general question, I will be away for several months (partly because of the new situation created by Brexit) so I will be stopping, meandering, probably following Eurovelo routes but also wanting to understand the geography of the places I am riding through, rather than simply following routes.
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I looked at doing this with my Etrex 30 - instead of the OTG cable, I decided to try the SD card I already have (could be a mini-SD, I lose track ... ). Worked perfectly, although of course getting the cards in/out can be a pain compared to plugging a cable in. But I saved carrying one more cable!willem jongman wrote: ↑15 Oct 2021, 11:33am The challenge is to create tracks on a phone and then transfer them to a Garmin outdoor GPS. This requires an OTG cable. Older Android phones apparently cannot do this, but newer ones can. I get mixed reports on which Garmins are compatible. I bought the cable to use with my Garmin Etrex 30 (my personal favourite because it is light, cheap and has a great battery life), but have not yet tried to connect them.
Hub dynamo and/or solar panel and/or mains charger plus a power bank or three used as cache batteries.stevemelia wrote: ↑15 Oct 2021, 10:31amThose of you who used phones, did you manage to avoid batteries running out?
Solar panel (21W Anker) and cache batteries (2 x 10000mAh) (solar panels only used at camp sites NOT open whilst underway).stevemelia wrote: ↑15 Oct 2021, 10:31amThose of you who used phones, did you manage to avoid batteries running out?
I'm not sure what devices you've looked at... many Garmin devices show maps...stevemelia wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 12:20pmI have just been looking at the Garmins used by members of my club, which confirmed what I thought. They don't show maps; they show directions. If you divert from a programmed route and don't reprogramme it, an algorithm creates a new route for you to follow - one which I, almost certainly, would not choose to follow if I had all the information in front of me.
My Garmin shows me a map. It pops-up a banner when you get close to a turning (and/or shows a small banner distance to next turn).stevemelia wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 12:20pm ....
I have just been looking at the Garmins used by members of my club, which confirmed what I thought. They don't show maps; they show directions. If you divert from a programmed route and don't reprogramme it, an algorithm creates a new route for you to follow - one which I, almost certainly, would not choose to follow if I had all the information in front of me.
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I would disagree that a dedicated cycling GPS is about getting you from one place to another minimising time/distance. There are many other factors that the device "considers", quite a few of which you can control (e.g. avoid tolls, avoid ferries). You can even enable route weighting according to route popularlty by other cyclists (i.e. it places greater weight to routes used by more cyclists).stevemelia wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 12:20pm ....
A Garmin is like a sat nav in a car. It is designed for people who need to move from one place to another whilst minimising their time/distance. It is not designed to help you find the most enjoyable route (most interesting, least hilly, least traffic etc.). You could attempt to work all that out the night before and programme in a route. The people I know always use computers to do that ("too fiddly" on Android devices). One of them actually carries a laptop when he is touring for that purpose, which seems a lot of weight, not to mention the risk of loss/damage/theft.
I take your point that you could insert new waypoints if you are changing your mind, but you would still have to accept the algorithm's decisions about your route between the waypoints. I often do this with Google maps, and usually have to insert many different waypoints to generate my choice of route. It is a nice little game when you are at home in the dry on your own computer. I would not want to play that game out on the road. I would much rather follow a map, which might show a long distance kml route (e.g. the Eurovelo routes) which I could choose to follow or divert from.