Wise Pilgrim Camino del Norte

I can only assume am update happened that removed one of the most useful features. There used to be countdown of distances to Santiago on the towns on the map. Then you could easily scan ahead to determine which towns are in your walking distance with accommodation. Now you have to flip to the list to see distances but this still does not show the countdown distance. The sample images of the app still show this feature but if it’s now gone. Please return this valuable feature. I have also found several routes not displayed, even routes that have camino signs and arrows.

The app does well showing the path and tracking progress, however the Camino symbol nearly always disappears or loses direction of actual travel. A reboot reorients the symbol, but only temporarily.

I used this app to do the Norte and found it to be extremely helpful. Download the offline maps so you can navigate with your data off. It was mostly accurate and got us out of some jams. The alternate routes on the coast are often great and worth it if you have time. The elevation profile was also helpful. There are reviews of alburgues as well and you can book some places through booking.com through the app. I just thought that sometimes the main route was actually marked red instead of blue which got confusing (that’s the main reason for taking a star off). There is little description of the alternates sometimes which would be helpful. Please add them in! Many alternates are not available on other apps but were worth doing. I would have gotten lost without this app!

This app got my Camino group around the Norte from Gijon to Santiago like a charm. I praised it every day!

this has been an essential, beautifully functioning app for my camino del norte walk

Does not work without cell service so was useless to me. Even when I had wireless all the little icons dropping on my phone screen made it a hot mess.

It's only $2 but not worth it. Map does not work offline. Need internet connection. Map is practically unusable with the annoying icons covering everything. Can't customize what you want to see. Map moves to some central location every time you access and then have to hunt around for your current location. Should have the ability to go straight to current location. Should have incorporated elevation and map into a single screen. I've switched back to using downloaded tracks on Pocket Earth for navigation and Consumer Eroski for elevations, lodging and commentary.

There are many features of this ap that I am grateful for, but the one feature that I do not like is the portrait-only display mode. Especially for a walk that runs east to west, it would be so helpful to have the ability to view the map in landscape mode. Also, it would be helpful to have a way to contact the developer directly to make this suggestion.

I used this app September 2015 when I cycled the Camino with my buddy. There were many times I had no idea if I was on the Camino or not as it's easy to miss arrows and you're going fast and. It paying attention to figure out where the yellow arrows are hidden. The map feature was great. Also the elevation part was nice to see what was coming up. Also liked how it had some albergues listed so I knew where they were at. Only issue I remember was maybe the way the map loaded as I would go in and out of the app and it would load in the same place as the first time I opened the app. Maybe fix he way it keeps dropping the pins every time you move the map around. Really a must in the Camino and if you have tmobile, no worries about data usage as it's unlimited and all part of your normal plan, which I had 3G about 95% of the entire Camino. Highly recommend this app

There is no offline map, meaning evertime you open the maps, it diwnloads many megabites worth of data. Since its easy to use, you can easily use a GB in a few days. The rest of the features are great, intuitive, and very helpful app while on the camino.