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Before giving feedback on iO from a personal point of view, I must stress it's a great app and has made my motorcycle travels around South America much easier as long as I remember to bear in mind the following:

I ride a m/c so many of the suggested locations are irrelevant as most iO contributions are from our 4 wheeled friends. Width/height of gates always crack me up

Often the icons are wrong, for what I want. Often the informal camping spots are actually hostels where the car parked outside. I actually want hostels (being on quite a budget and finding my tent a pita) with off street m/c

Wild camp spots are often just paved carparks which for a biker is ridiculous

Locations of petrol station is all well and good in southern Patagonia and I envied the car campers. However I did pitch my tent there quite often as Argentina is so bloody prohibitively expensive. Elsewhere in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia there's fuel everywhere!

I look at the iO app on my smart phone for what's marked en route and at my proposed daily destination, read all the contributions and choose very selectively which gps coordinates to enter into my gps device. I have an informal ignore list of contributors who imho post rubbish/wrong stuff and others' whose views I trust. Just like on the hubb and all other internet forums.

Downloading the entire poi database would just spam up my device and make it utterly useless.

Thanks again to those who work hard to make iO such a great free resource!

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