I was following Steve Diederich's epic 250CCCCCC recently on FaceBook. On several of his (awesome) video's I could see a tablet on the left side of his bars. This got me wondering.
I've been planning on buying a 2nd Garmin GPS as a back up, but could a tablet do the job? The tablet provides a much larger view screen for routing around incidents as needed and could definitely be used AS a GPS...but... for rallying, how would the GPX or other rally location data files get uploaded to the tablet? Also, in order for me to build a route on Basecamp, my Zumo 590 needs to be connected to my computer. (I'm a new user so maybe this isn't true). So how do I use Basecamp with a tablet?
On the iTunes/Apple website, it doesn't look like Basecamp is available for iPads.
So what are you guys doing? Are you able to use a tablet for back-up route planning?
I've been planning on buying a 2nd Garmin GPS as a back up, but could a tablet do the job? The tablet provides a much larger view screen for routing around incidents as needed and could definitely be used AS a GPS...but... for rallying, how would the GPX or other rally location data files get uploaded to the tablet? Also, in order for me to build a route on Basecamp, my Zumo 590 needs to be connected to my computer. (I'm a new user so maybe this isn't true). So how do I use Basecamp with a tablet?
On the iTunes/Apple website, it doesn't look like Basecamp is available for iPads.
So what are you guys doing? Are you able to use a tablet for back-up route planning?