Originally Posted by
drewguy
If I want to find a place to eat when I bike through a town, I'd pull out my phone.
Well, here's an actual example. I was on a weekend tour with my son in Door County, WI. Got off the ferry on Washington Island and had to get to the campground. Well, no cellular service of consequence, so I found it in the POI (Point of Interest) list in my bike computer and I navigated to that. It was about 4-5 miles away and not something you can just ride with your phone in your hand and get to. So two problems - (1) no cellular and (2) had to handhold thing thing.
That's the whole problem with the "find it on my phone" thing: not the easiest thing to any navigation of even minor consequence if there is any distance involved. Fairly basic navigation function found in most bike computers. That's to the point where the Wahoo navigation is just about as low as you can go and still call it navigation - I would hesitate to use the word "basic" to describe it. "Barest of bare bones" is more accurate.
J.