Making maps with Retrace
I love little surprises, especially when it comes to making maps! I've been fascinated with making good maps since we walked the Camino de Santiago in 2016. Maps of the Camino route in the most popular English-language guidebook are hand drawn, not to scale and very confusing. The whole idea of a map is to keep you from getting lost, but these maps do just the opposite. I decided to write my own guidebook and put the emphasis on clear, concise maps that showed north where it's supposed to be - at the top of the page! Of course, to do that in today's world meant I had to use the GPS on my phone. I had a BlackBerry back then and I downloaded a GPS app called Retrace. It only worked on BlackBerries, but it worked well. Then, half way through the Camino, the GPS server went down. I had already traced 400km and I didn't want to lose more than two weeks of work. In desperation, I emailed the developer and asked what was wrong. To my shock and amazement, I ac