2 posts tagged with "Android"

A street map is perfect for finding a café. It is much less helpful halfway up a mountain, where what you really want is contour lines, terrain shading, and elevation to read the shape of the land around your team. By default, the map in the Meshtastic app shows streets.

That is easy to change. The Meshtastic Android app lets you add your own map layers, and the best ones for the outdoors are free, especially in Japan, where the national mapping agency publishes excellent topographic maps.

A notification sits in your status bar and will not go away. It appeared when you connected your tracker to the Meshtastic app, and swiping does nothing. Is the app stuck, draining your battery, or did you do something wrong?

None of the above. It is completely normal, and the app is just doing its job. Here is what that notification is for, and what it means for your battery.