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best GPS app for Europe?

Liam548

Liam548

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As you can see from my phone history I have been a nokia user since 2000

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and have been using Nokia maps.

The advantage is that the nokia maps for europe are downloaded to the phone so no internet connection is required.

Which are the best sat nav apps for the phone and which GPS apps are also worth looking at, i.e not maps just altitude, speed, direction etc?

Also does ther SGN2 support the new Galelio GPS system that europe is launching, what kind of GPS chip does it contain?

thanks

Liam
 
Best turn by turn driving sat nav by far is Google maps/navigation. I haven't tried outside of the uk though. Nor have I tried it with cached map data either. Apparently it can save maps and work offline but I haven't tried it yet. I don't think it could gove you the live traffic info if it were offline.
 
Liam548 said:
The advantage is that the nokia maps for europe are downloaded to the phone so no internet connection is required.

Which are the best sat nav apps for the phone and which GPS apps are also worth looking at, i.e not maps just altitude, speed, direction etc?

thanks

Liam
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Sygic and GPS Test are generally recommended. Personally, Sygic has been the best I have tried so far but I'm not entirely satisfied with it. GPS Test is excellent though.

TomTom UK is now available for Android but apparently it is incompatible to the Note 1. I'd be interested to hear what Play says about it for Note 2.

See the countries it is available for at :-
TomTom TomTom Navigation app for Android - TomTom
 
Well I used Copilot on My HTC Desire and found that to be good and easy to use have now downloaded to the note just for a trial but this version does not seem as user friendly somehow and my street is still unnamed so not updated I don't think Google maps/navigation has voice instruction
 
casarosa said:
Well I used Copilot on My HTC Desire and found that to be good and easy to use have now downloaded to the note just for a trial but this version does not seem as user friendly somehow and my street is still unnamed so not updated I don't think Google maps/navigation has voice instruction
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It does on my Note 1.

CoPilot produced some really poor routes for me and I could not trust it to do a decent job.

Sygic does the job but possibly because I'm more familiar with TomTom hardware devices, I'm hoping that the app will soon be compatible to the Note 1.
 
The voice on google navigation on my note 2 sounds a bit like the narrator from the old tv version of the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. He's not always that good at pronouncing Yorkshire street names. Killinghall Road becomes kill-inj-all road and he pronounced Ripon Racecourse as rassy-course.
I've just been playing around with saving offline maps. You do it in google maps rather than the navigation app.
I'll do a trial tomorrow and navigate to work with all my data turned off and see how it does. It's not far but it should prove if it works or not.
 
JamesTM said:
The voice on google navigation on my note 2 sounds a bit like the narrator from the old tv version of the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. He's not always that good at pronouncing Yorkshire street names. Killinghall Road becomes kill-inj-all road and he pronounced Ripon Racecourse as rassy-course.
I've just been playing around with saving offline maps. You do it in google maps rather than the navigation app.
I'll do a trial tomorrow and navigate to work with all my data turned off and see how it does. It's not far but it should prove if it works or not.
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thanks James. Thing is I have been able to load on all europe and speed cameras to my nokia over the years and then go abroad and use it as sat nav with no costs or data connection.

So it seems TomTom android can do this for
 
The problem I have found with google maps/navigation certainly in this region of spain is that they are out of date, my urbanisation still shows images from 2002 and yet street view is bang up to date maybe Google needs to take a new Sat Image snapshot 2012.
If these companies want you to use and pay for their systems they need to update first
 
Google Navigation needs an Internet connection to do the route initially. It can continue offline for the rest of the journey and even recalculate if you deviate.
Not ideal if you are roaming. Might just work abroad if you can always start off from a wifi hotspot.
 
JamesTM said:
Google Navigation needs an Internet connection to do the route initially. It can continue offline for the rest of the journey and even recalculate if you deviate.
Not ideal if you are roaming. Might just work abroad if you can always start off from a wifi hotspot.
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I need any of these Sat/navigation systems to work solely off GPS not Wifi or roaming no good trying to find a Hotspot in some parts of spain you can barely at times get normal phone signals
 
reburner said:
I use NavFree, have used it in the UK, France and Ireland and it works well.
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Certainly looks interesting. Just downloading the UK now.

Google's offline maps would take an age. You can only do a small square at a time or it says it is too big. I was just about able to get Leicester and Birmingham in the same grid.
 
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