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TheGUYuk
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Smartphone apps: handle with care
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Smartphone apps: handle with care
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Ed Douglas
on 29/08/2012
Real maps for real mountaineers The increasing number of hill walkers being rescued after relying on smartphone apps for navigation has prompted a rash of negative newspaper headlines. Can our love of technology really be that bad? Ed Douglas discovers there’s no substitute for a map and compass.
The Guardian’s report couldn’t have been less equivocal. “Hill walkers have been warned not to use smartphone apps to navigate in the Scottish mountains after the police had to rescue 16 people who got lost in the Cairngorms,” the newspaper said.
https://www.thebmc.co.uk/smartphone-apps-handle-with-care?s=3
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robstubbs
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Discuss, why ? It's a recurring question that has been done to death numerous times on here. I'd refer you to all the other threads on smartphones, but the list would be too long
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Fellwanderer
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Photo taken on the parliamentary group's walk up Blencathra last September - friend of mine in the red jacket. No, he's not an MP!
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Madmax Jnr
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I notice that the guy on the left is wearing a triple-point jacket from Lowe Alpine - looks like he is getting his money's worth!
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