Best navigation map for France for iphone or android?
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I use TomTom on my 3GS iPhone, another program is OffMaps it allows you to download preselected areas and save them to your device. I used that before I got tomtom for the iphone.
I also use MemoryMap for OS mapping in the UK for going off road you can also get good detailed maps of France for that and you can share maps between a PC and your mobile device. The French maps have 3D mapping and it will give you a 3D rendering of the terrain
I also use MemoryMap for OS mapping in the UK for going off road you can also get good detailed maps of France for that and you can share maps between a PC and your mobile device. The French maps have 3D mapping and it will give you a 3D rendering of the terrain
When abroad recently I found my normal sat-nav broke down and I had to use the android google navigation and was dreading the charges, so I switched on the data roaming, set up the navigation then switched off roaming. Suprisingly this used very little data (about 200K all-in) - all directions were announced clearly by the device at the right time, the only thing was the map view wasn't at full resolution, it was "fuzzy", but was enough to give you an idea of the direction to go at junctions/roundabouts etc - I was pleasantly surprised.
So basically once you have the route planned, the data connection is only needed for hi-resolution maps. Therefore it kind of depends how often you need to do this and how complex the route, but will give you the basics for not much data cost.
So basically once you have the route planned, the data connection is only needed for hi-resolution maps. Therefore it kind of depends how often you need to do this and how complex the route, but will give you the basics for not much data cost.
I didn't want to be paying data, or worse not having mobile phone signal and needing it. We bought a road atlast (the old fashioned type!) but wanted something on my iphone to supplement and I downloaded navmii with french maps.
Was only a couple of quid iirc (so cheaper than the road book we bought!) - and nice to have and use.
In fact ironically used it more when we were cycling (as we spent 5 days cycling in the south of france) than in the car - to know how far we were from where we were going etc.
Was only a couple of quid iirc (so cheaper than the road book we bought!) - and nice to have and use.
In fact ironically used it more when we were cycling (as we spent 5 days cycling in the south of france) than in the car - to know how far we were from where we were going etc.
I have Co-pilot on Android. The user interface is just like normal sat-nav, with (different) voice instruction etc etc. It uses GPS signal rather than 3G so zero data charges. Not sure if it exists for France, but highly recommended for UK. I-phone 3G really winds me up, loose the signal temporarily and takes ages to pick itself back up again.
bls1 said:
I have Co-pilot on Android. The user interface is just like normal sat-nav, with (different) voice instruction etc etc. It uses GPS signal rather than 3G so zero data charges. Not sure if it exists for France, but highly recommended for UK. I-phone 3G really winds me up, loose the signal temporarily and takes ages to pick itself back up again.
I also have this on my android; there is a European version which I picked up for 30 quid from the app store. Seems pretty good.bls1 said:
I have Co-pilot on Android. The user interface is just like normal sat-nav, with (different) voice instruction etc etc. It uses GPS signal rather than 3G so zero data charges. Not sure if it exists for France, but highly recommended for UK. I-phone 3G really winds me up, loose the signal temporarily and takes ages to pick itself back up again.
Yes it is available, I recently downloaded both the European and US versions for my iphone, only used the Europe one once so far and that was in a rural area of this country with no phone signal and it seems to work ok, going to have to wait until November to try the other one.I paid about £3 for the USA (non-premium) version and £23 for the premium European version which was actually cheaper than the non-premium version, just had a look on the app store and they seem to have doubled in price since I bought them
aizvara said:
bls1 said:
I have Co-pilot on Android. The user interface is just like normal sat-nav, with (different) voice instruction etc etc. It uses GPS signal rather than 3G so zero data charges. Not sure if it exists for France, but highly recommended for UK. I-phone 3G really winds me up, loose the signal temporarily and takes ages to pick itself back up again.
I also have this on my android; there is a European version which I picked up for 30 quid from the app store. Seems pretty good.Also the latest Google maps update allows you to cache areas of map. Go into the menu then settings and select precache map area. You can then long press on the area you want to download and it will cache a 10 sq mile area around the press.
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