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| ve7xen:
OrganicMaps on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.organicmaps . Properly FOSS, unlimited downloads of map data thanks to OpenStreetMap. Used to be MAPS.ME on Android for offline maps for many years (which used to be MapsWithMe), but since its acquisition by a Russian advertising/tracking company, I switched to the fork. It's not as useful for navigation here because most building addresses are not in OSM so searching for the destination is more difficult, but if you manually drop a pin or your destination is in the database, route planning and turn-by-turn works pretty well. Haven't compared it to OsmAnd, which people here seem to prefer, checking that one out now, but it seems to require I pay the developers to get access to data developed by the OSM community, which puts a bit of a sour taste in my mouth. |
| ealex:
for OsmAnd I recommend the hill-shades, contour and slopes plugins (not free but acceptable) they're great for trekking and can draw a "heat-map" of slope gradient - for example to stay away from avalanche prone areas, or to plan an easy route. |
| Rick Law:
--- Quote from: jmelson on January 05, 2022, 05:23:03 pm --- --- Quote from: coromonadalix on January 05, 2022, 05:53:15 am ---Some cell phones are true gps capable, not depending of the cellular network ... Google map and Waze, Sygic and others will work --- End quote --- Yes, the GPS works without the network, but when you drive off the end of the map pages that have been downloaded, you get to a big blank square. Then, you are lost. That's the great thing about the laptop apps (foxtrot and navit) that you can preload large chunks of your country and have the maps available wherever you are, with no network. Jon --- End quote --- This reminded me at a time when GPS doesn't even have maps. I had a Sport & tracker GPS around 1996/7, with just long/lat. Sport as in for fishing and tracking (hiking) in the wild. It displays your current Long/Lat and elevation. The only "navigation" it can do is it can store a target long/lat and display a arrow pointing at the target plus linear distance to target. Very primitive. Even with only long/Lat, it is still useful for driving. The first time I drove from Stuttgart to Antwerp (around 2000), I mark down the long/lat of a few important points such as on/off to a highway. Along with paper maps and my list of long/lat, I made it from Stuttgart to Antwerp. Got lost twice in the dark of night, but managed to get back to my nearest "important points" I noted via long/lat. When the first GPS navigation with maps came out for Windows CE PDA (with mini-PCMCIA external GPS), that was great but USA only. With Microsoft Map Point (both Europe and USA map) running on a laptop, it can also talk to the external GPS via serial, and it can navigate. A bit troublesome driving with a laptop for navigation. When TomTom 6 (for Treo 650) came out around 2004/5, it was great! It has European maps as well, and much easier for driving comparing to a laptop... Now "tracker GPS" means something entirely different... You are not the one doing the tracking anymore. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 04, 2022, 04:00:49 am ---Google Maps. You can download offline maps through the application for a given geographical area. --- End quote --- Just to be double extra clear for the OP: downloading offline maps is a distinct function the user has to do manually. It’s not referring to cached map data caused by using the app normally. |
| Rick Law:
--- Quote from: tooki on January 07, 2022, 09:48:01 pm --- --- Quote from: Halcyon on January 04, 2022, 04:00:49 am ---Google Maps. You can download offline maps through the application for a given geographical area. --- End quote --- Just to be double extra clear for the OP: downloading offline maps is a distinct function the user has to do manually. It’s not referring to cached map data caused by using the app normally. --- End quote --- Thanks, Tooki. I have been using Google map with offline maps for the last few years, so I am aware of that. I even updated the off-line maps prior to trip but some how after I begun (still with WiFi at start), later (no WiFi anymore), it was unable to read the downloaded map and resorted to on-line navigation. At 2G connection, I had no chance. I think I understand why it failed to read the off-line map now. After I loaded Sygic to try... It then occurred to me that when I started the app the night before the trip to update the off-line maps, it said there is a new version of Google Map available, I skipped the app update and went into off-line map update instead. That may be the cause of it -- downloaded map may require the new app version. In any event, I am glad I am off Google Map. It was too cluttered with advertisement. |
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