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Originally Posted by Question Mark
when I'm hiking in the mountains.
Currently, I use an 8 inch tablet for this, but the problem is that it is difficult to see the screen in sunlight. It also uses more power. On a multi-day trip, one can run the risk of running out of power (which is why I usually also have a paper map with me as well).
However, on an eink device, I wouldn't have either of those problems.
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Been there ; )
Have you checked my experience/contributions in the
relevant thread?
Anyway, to be fair:
-- if the glance is quick (driving a car, arm distance) than you miss the extra dimension given by colour
-- if you keep it on constant wake (e.g. through GPS), the battery will drop pretty fast, in a few hours.
But in general and otherwise - yes, it's certainly a good idea!
By the way (not expressed in that thread, I believe): you can modify Mobac (Mobile Atlas Creator) to create PNG16 maps
In other terms, figure whole regions in very high detail in under 4 gigabytes... Because of course your interest is a good offline storage, that you may hook to GPS upon need.