Thanks. Sometimes I'm in the backwoods far from towers and would like a tablet that can work with GPS without needing access to towers or wifi. That way I can do without the small, sized car GPS and use something bigger in the vehicle than a personal sized GPS.
I live in Utah and frequently hike in an area without any cell phone service and the IPAD with GPS has changed my whole way of enjoying the wilderness. I have an app with all of Utah’s topo maps loaded, and once I pick a route, my wife and I are to the trailhead, then off the trail. We can wander through meadow and valley with certainty as the App keeps our topo map updated with our orientation and location. Of course we can see the mountains to know our way back if it fails, but we can connect all the clearings and traverses in a path of least resistance.
>>>Sometimes I’m in the backwoods far from towers and would like a tablet that can work with GPS without needing access to towers or wifi.
A wifi-only iPad CAN be a full blown GPS, with no need for continuous network connection... http://bad-elf.com/ — as long as your app keeps its needed maps on the device, it works just fine.