Originally Posted by
njkayaker
The Wahoo app isn't "pinging the cloud" (no one knows what you mean by that).
The Wahoo calulates the route on there website (using maps on their website). It's the same sort of thing that RWGPS does.
Having it done on the phone would require redoing all that programing.
The Wahoo calulates the route on there website (using maps on their website). It's the same sort of thing that RWGPS does.
Having it done on the phone would require redoing all that programing.
My apologies.
I used the terminology that Wahoo used with me. To me it suggested a definite, yet insubstantial, contact between the app and server it uses to process requests.
To my non-technological mind, it would seem similar to the way my mobile phone "pings" mobile phone towers - I'm not making a call, both tower and phone are communicating with each other.
For the record, I am not trying to plan a route offline using the Wahoo App. I may as well use my Ebay app.
I'm talking about a situation where I can plan a route offline and create a gpx file (also offline), using, for example, Osmand.
In this case, everything can be done on the phone. However, the Wahoo app will not process this (new) gpx file until it can "ping" the cloud - data/wifi is necessary.
Now, the practicalities of planning a route on a phone or tablet are a whole other discussion. Personally, I wouldn't do it a lot - except it's a very handy thing to have in an emergency situation.
In any case, my last post was simply to let anybody know who may be interested in a Wahoo product based on my older post that the development of a "pingless" situation was still a ways off.
Frank