This week I am closer to understanding what is needed for my sister Judy's Alpine Nature Center App. We designed a tracker app where the user can drop a pin and then map the directions back to the dropped pin from another location. I can see how this could be really helpful in a hiking map. I am taking this app for a test drive, so to speak. The kids and I left today for a cross country trek to Bear Ears National Monument. We made it as far as Monument Valley tonight. Tomorrow we will hike up to several of the cliff dwellings in Bears Ears.
My hypothesis is that the tracker will not be helpful in Bears Ears. Our cellular service ended hours ago. I really feel like we are two weeks from anywhere.
It is not super accurate to say that the cell service ended. It looks like our T-Mobile family plan is piggy backing off of Cellular One right now. That pretty much means we have phone service and sms, but no data. I was able to get the app to work in the hotel room because free wifi.
I am thinking this is not going to be a problem with the parks by Alpine Utah as this is a densely populated area with very good cellular service.
Anyway, here is a link to the URL to download this latest app. Future improvement will be to have the google map app open in its own screen to maximize the size of the map.
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