Sat Nav App - Europe

[Gad-Westy]

Hi all. Off to France tomorrow and being a master of preparation, I've given myself a whole 24 hours to prepare.

I'd like a sat nav app for the iphone that covers France where the maps are stored on the phone rather than having to download data on the fly. Ideally some sort of traffic monitoring ability as well but that's not the priority. Any recommendations?

[carreauchompeur]

Depending on how far you're going you could just download it as an offline area on Google Maps

[chrislusty]

Here maps from nokia, is free and you can download all of europe for offline driving. Also has speed limitis which can come in handy.

[djone101]

I use Navmii - it's free - stores the maps on the phone and doesn't use data while you're using it.

[JQ]

carreauchompeur said:

Depending on how far you're going you could just download it as an offline area on Google Maps

That's what I've always done and seems to work really well. Used it in Austria, Germany and France many times.

[Rick101]

I use Co-Pilot. Paid app and works well.

[hairyben]

JQ said:

carreauchompeur said:

Depending on how far you're going you could just download it as an offline area on Google Maps

That's what I've always done and seems to work really well. Used it in Austria, Germany and France many times.

Google works fine, dunno how you'll get traffic without data though, worth throwing in a cheap payg chip If your network wants to punish you or using a payg myfi type thing?

[Rick101]

Maps doesn't use that much data. I imagine you would be within the limits of your existing package.

[RizzoTheRat]

If you're on Android get the relevant section of map on screen on google maps and type in "OK Maps", this will save the selected map area. You won't get traffic updates and I don't think you can do location searches, but you can plan routes to a point you select on the map.

Haven't they just scrapped roaming data charges though?

[boz1]

RizzoTheRat said:

Haven't they just scrapped roaming data charges though?

Indeed. Your UK plan will apply exactly as if you were in the UK from now on, at least until March 2019...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40281013

My preferred setup is to use Google maps for navigation, with the Tom Tom speed camera app overlay. (It has an alternative mode where it functions as an overlay to any other open app, rather than having it full screen and having to use it for navigation as well)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....

[E36GUY]

Rick101 said:

I use Co-Pilot. Paid app and works well.

Another vote for co-pilot. Very good indeed and only uses GPS.

[carreauchompeur]

hairyben said:

JQ said:

carreauchompeur said:

Depending on how far you're going you could just download it as an offline area on Google Maps

That's what I've always done and seems to work really well. Used it in Austria, Germany and France many times.

Google works fine, dunno how you'll get traffic without data though, worth throwing in a cheap payg chip If your network wants to punish you or using a payg myfi type thing?

I know on giffgaff now European data is included, but to be honest on a recent Spanish trip I was just using it quite heavily and I only used about £5 of data over 5 full days of navigation/browsing etc anyway...

[Rick101]

All operators now treat European data as per UK data.

Another rule imposed on us by the pesky EU

[TEKNOPUG]

E36GUY said:

Rick101 said:

I use Co-Pilot. Paid app and works well.

Another vote for co-pilot. Very good indeed and only uses GPS.

This.

[AJB88]

Waze?

[Gad-Westy]

Co Pilot is sounding a good option.

Thanks for all the replies.

I do get free data in EU but I don't have a huge data allowance in the first place hence trying to avoid splurging it all on mapping.

[CYMR0]

Waze is very good and data efficient - I'd suggest using it for the first time on wifi to cache the local map and it should then barely use anything.

[Plate spinner]

CYMR0 said:

Waze is very good and data efficient - I'd suggest using it for the first time on wifi to cache the local map and it should then barely use anything.

Yup, it gets me around no problem

[Bill]

Gad-Westy said:

Co Pilot is sounding a good option.

Thanks for all the replies.

I do get free data in EU but I don't have a huge data allowance in the first place hence trying to avoid splurging it all on mapping.

I use Google despite having Copilot, just download maps when on WiFi.

[aquarianone]

Another thumbs up for Co-pilot - handy to be able to download full offline country maps.

Looks like its around £28 for all of Europe on Android.

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