Wapiti, that's interesting. I'll have to fiddle with my phone a little. I have the GPS function on, but I have never been able to have my position triangulated on any of my mapping apps when I was outside of a cell service area. Shoot, I can't hardly even get the apps to load when I'm outside of cell service.
Just as an example, I hunted barbary with a friend this year in the southeast corner of NM. I have a GPS tracking app on my phone so my wife can at least know where to start searching for my body, and there was about a fifty-mile area in the far southeast corner of NM that had absolutely no tracking data on my movements, and only once I got into cell tower range did that app start tracking my movements. It may have just been that the app doesn't consistently use the GPS option or something and the huntinggps maps app does, but I definitely wouldn't have bet my life or my next 3 years of hunting privileges on it. Even if the GPS function on my phone does work, I still am going to primarily fall back on my hand-held GPS just because I trust it more. I would be curious to know if others are able to use the huntinggps maps app when they are definitely out of cell service or not? It would be awesome if you could, because it would save people $60, but I still have my doubts.
Thanks.