@maszop said in Offline Maps and Routing in Suunto App:
It’s hard to call a map readable without contour lines.
I disagree for two reasons.
There is an elevation profile at the bottom. You can interactively try to route along the path and see how the elevation changes, and if you don’t like that, it is easy to undo. Paper maps don’t have this interactivity - that’s why contour lines are more important.
Contour line are sometimes helpful, but they should not dominate the view to the point where they obscure other important details, and that’s what we see in my screenshot. Also that long text that tells me I am at West Tiger Mountain Natural Conservation Area. I already know that. With contour lines, the same usefulness could be achieved by using less contrast thiner lines - the brain would still pick it up just fine. What I want to see primarily is the trail system to make a routing decision. An ideal solution would be to toggle contour lines on/off - that’s what I can do in OsmAnd app, but most of the time I don’t really need contour lines even though I likely do more ascent and descent every week than most people in this forum.
