My co-planner and I went out last weekend checking draft courses. As it's a new toy my iPad goes everywhere with me. No doubt the tech-savvy on this forum will have used various Android and iOS devices in the forest, but this is our experience.
We decided against going too high tech and trying to synch to GPS. We'd only have ended up fussing about the map and anyway it doesn't help, the planner needs to know that runners can find the controls.
So we printed from CONDES to .pdf, all controls followed by the courses. It was great fun to navigate with, zooming and scrolling with fingers, and using the annotation feature in the Adobe app to note all the issues directly on the map.
So there were risks with falling, dropping the device, weather, dirty fingers ... but I think I'd repeat it if only for the convenience of not having to decipher my half-legible scrawl when we got home.
One minor issue - it was just as well there were 2 of us because a compass was totally unreliable near it. Perhaps we should have used a compass app as well.
Any other experiences?
Keep taking the tablet?
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