I toured part of my trail promotion, Route 1 discovery trip today that took me through places like Powhatan Point, Ohio, Moundsville, New Vrindaban, Littleton, Hastings, Reader and New Martinsville of West Virginia. I use the Locus Pro app on my Android based smartphone. And apparantely, it no longer supports maps from Map Quest. So, I've had a difficult time finding something for the United States to take place of it's road map. What I have won't allow me to download maps for offline use and most of the this trip was offline. I had to rely on my GPS track that I made for these routes on a blank map. I ended up missing a few turns because I couldn't distinguish between a curve and another road. When the smartphone came back into cell service, the points around the map wouldn't zoom it. So, I was lucky to see that someplace was a town.
Looks like I'll have to go with USGS Topo's now. They're better for hiking. Meanwhile, I discovered that I can download maps in my Google Maps app that covers all the routes, but they expire in one month. I can also use it to view a trail's track. If this pertains to topographic maps then, Locus might be on it's way out?
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