{"id":231926,"date":"2026-02-23T13:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/do-hikers-need-a-backup-to-phone-maps-in-the-outdoors"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:33:31","slug":"do-hikers-need-a-backup-to-phone-maps-in-the-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/do-hikers-need-a-backup-to-phone-maps-in-the-outdoors","title":{"rendered":"Do hikers need a backup to phone maps in the outdoors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-hikers-need-a-backup-to-phone-maps-in-the-outdoors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should hikers have a backup map plan in case their phone map malfunctions or their phone gets lost? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of | Technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should hikers have a backup map plan in case their phone map malfunctions or their phone gets lost? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of | Technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}