<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 6:18 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Imports <<a href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org">imports@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Feb 28, 2022, 08:14 by <a href="mailto:grussausbw@gmx.de" target="_blank">grussausbw@gmx.de</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div>"So 4 days after most people interested in imports ever heard about it you are ready to go?"<br></div><div>Who checks his mails only every 4 days? Don't people check them out every day?<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Many people who are not terminally online, especially for mails of lower priority.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I expect that there are many people active primarily on weekends and treating<br></div><div dir="auto">it as a low intensity hobby.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Many people may have 4 busy days at work (or entire week) especially <br></div><div dir="auto">in the current situation.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Even mapping can put people offline. You'll usually get a prompt response from me if I'm in town, but sometimes I'm in the field. </div><div><br></div><div>When I was gathering data for <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4286650">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4286650</a> I had essentially zero cell phone coverage for the middle 100 km, between Long Lake (don't recall whether I had a brief burst of signal at Lake Durant) and Piseco. That meant that I was incommunicado for six days. (I'm not a fast hiker, particularly when I'm also mapping).</div><div><br></div><div>Going that far between resupply points is, uhm, interesting. At Piseco, my pack weighed half what it did in Long Lake, because I'd eaten the other half. Keeping GPS running for six days without the opportunity to hook up with the electrical grid is also an interesting exercise. Lake Placid to Long Lake was similar, but shorter ("only" 60-odd km). I discovered significant errors in the published guidebook and maps while on the journey. </div><div><br></div><div>There are no cell towers in the wilderness.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm willing to spend neither the money nor the mass for a satellite phone. I carry a Personal Locator Beacon (yes, it's an actual PLB and yes, it's licensed) and I begrudge the weight of even that.</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin</div></div>