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Hi all,
Well, I am getting a bike mount for my Streak this weekend.
I roam about a lot in the city on my bike now! ( and I get lost a lot too! new city .. )
so, I was thinking.
So whats one good Navigation software that has:
Voice navigation (optional)
Turn by turn directions (required in text atleast!)
Offline maps (must!)
<GPS assist is must! for the accuracy..>
City road maps (e.g. Bangalore, India)
Please suggest.
(Offline maps to ensure min battery usage..)
Thanks,
Sony.
Google Maps or NDrive
Google maps navigation supports all of the features you asked but the offline maps download automatically from a round you and it caches them so you can't always be shure that they are always there.
But if you defiantly need offline use NDrive, it is not for bikes but it is good and quite cheap and very fast, I use it all the time with my streak
Just checked..
Just checked!
Brut maps is what I need, but, again.. I think it has difference from the legal terms from Google maps..
Ndrive.. hmm, I think, its not good in India.
is there a trial version of it?
Thanks for that..
any other softwares/maps stuff?
care,
Sony.
P.S. stevepork: there you go.. first thanks
Not sure if CoPilot is in your area, but it works quite well here in north america. I attempted to use it in Mexico, and the results were less than stellar.
A free option is Navit, which can work alongside with Google Maps, so you can get a starting and end point that works. Navit's maps are all on SD. It's a work in progress but does include TTS.
besony said:
Hi all,
Well, I am getting a bike mount for my Streak this weekend.
I roam about a lot in the city on my bike now! ( and I get lost a lot too! new city .. )
so, I was thinking.
So whats one good Navigation software that has:
Voice navigation (optional)
Turn by turn directions (required in text atleast!)
Offline maps (must!)
<GPS assist is must! for the accuracy..>
City road maps (e.g. Bangalore, India)
Please suggest.
(Offline maps to ensure min battery usage..)
Thanks,
Sony.
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if u hd bought steak frm india u shd get Map My India licence free with dell streak...
if wldnt u can buy it..juss do some google
and 1 more thing whr do u got bike mount ?
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SYGIC MOBILE MAPS FOR INDIA is al you are going to need.
Suggest that you have a look at this web site:
http://mobile.jack-frost.co.uk/android_sat_nav_apps.php
It has very good reviews of all the different (on-line and off-line) navigation applications that are available on Android.
(In the UK, I am using NDrive quite happily, although it's not as good as TomTom under WM6. I wish that TomTom would produce an Android version.)
Navigon Select
I was installing Navigon Select
and it works Perfect. Actually i use 3.5.4 with 3D Maps. I got fully Europe and USA maps also available.
I like it very much
Hey,
I live in the uk and next month i am going to spain for two weeks, i was planning on using my sgs2 as my sat nav using google maps,
Now if i do this will i need to use the internet to get the map or will it all be done by the gps?
if so is there a good sat nav app i can get that will allow me to only use the gps?
Thanks
GPS reads satellites it cannot download anything .
Internet is required for Google maps but in settings you can turn on cach and labs prefetch . That may be used to download some of the map before you go .
Mobile data abroad can be very very very expensive make sure you dont end up with a £1000 plus bill from the network .
jje
So if i get another nav what has all the Spanish map i should be ok?
There is a limit to a £40 on o2.
Will try and download a sat Nav annoyed really as my old Sony Satio had garmin.
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Buy Sygic.
Will have a look at that, also looking at navigon
For a quick trip you could also use Navit (org.navitproject.navit) and download the map yourself (Openstreetmap).
Not as fancy as the buyware but enough for basic navigation.
If you only need the maps and no routing then you could also have a look at Oruxmaps (com.orux.oruxmaps). It can download maps from Google and other sources.
Hello guys!
It has been a long time since Asus and Garmin released the first Garmin for Android navigator, but it seems that there is no further "hacking" performed to customize Garmin for ALL android devices...
I can now even see a Garmin Navigator in the Google Play store, but it seems to be for Australia only.
Anyone has any info regarding the progress either of the official Garmin Nav for android, or a hacked version of it?
Thank you in advance for reading this.
P.S. I live in Greece and, as expected, we will propably be one of the last countries to be supported by Google Navigation, so using a third-party navigation software is a one-way. I have purchased NDrive 11, but compared to my old symbian Belle Garmin software, it is really inferior...
Best regards,
Konstantinos
Hey why dont you try sygic instead,Its like the equivalent to garmin and you can download maps worldwide.
Yeahh..why xda developers did not interested to cracked this software? I think garmin is the strong one gps software for navigation.
Regards
Fryan
Don't you like google maps navigation?
This is the part where everyone swears you can just use the default gps apps and be fine, I hear ya, I want full onboard maps for the times your out in the boonies and cant get a signal, gps will still work...The bottom line is, there is no true garmin for android...Im coming from an iphone and had garmin on there so I wish it was...they have some offline nav like all the others.I have researched the crap out of this whole gps thing, and for some reason the big boy gps guys didnt want to mess with creating one for android, at least not yet. So the best you will get for offline maps and it actually is owned by garmin now is Navigon. My guess is they figure Navigon is already setup and they own it now, so why create a Garmin app that does the same thing. I prefer garmin the same as most would, but for now this is the best you can do.
I am planning on using my Prime in the car and would like to know what is the best "offline" alternative to Google Navigation. I have heard about Sygic but do not have personal experience with it.
Any suggestion?
ajamils said:
I am planning on using my Prime in the car and would like to know what is the best "offline" alternative to Google Navigation. I have heard about Sygic but do not have personal experience with it.
Any suggestion?
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You are able to download the Google maps for offline use, have you tried doing that with your tablet? All it should need after download is GPS...
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You are able to download the Google maps for offline use, have you tried doing that with your tablet? All it should need after download is GPS...
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Well, it's not that simple actually. You can't download entire maps. You can pre-cache 10 square mile areas around locations.
Works well if you know where you're going .
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You are able to download the Google maps for offline use, have you tried doing that with your tablet? All it should need after download is GPS...
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Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. How do I do that? All I see is an option to cache map area. How can I cache the whole USA map ?
try Orux maps from the market, its an open source alternative and as far as I am aware you can create maps of any size for offline use. And its free (or donation!).
ajamils said:
I am planning on using my Prime in the car and would like to know what is the best "offline" alternative to Google Navigation. I have heard about Sygic but do not have personal experience with it.
Any suggestion?
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Have you looked into the new additions to Google Maps? I think they're increasing the offline capabilities (according to their talk yesterday or the day before).
http://www.androidcentral.com/google-maps-android-getting-offline-access
Although google maps is excellent and the new features are needed, orux maps includes google maps within along with just about every other map source available.
I havent heard of any apps that do offline route planning and navigation though, thats a different story.
Oruxmaps looks good but I don't think it does what I'm looking for. I need complete "turn by turn" navigation offline (just like car navigation ).
seeknom said:
Well, it's not that simple actually. You can't download entire maps. You can pre-cache 10 square mile areas around locations.
Works well if you know where you're going .
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I was assuming he knew where he was going Haha
Sygic seems to do everything that I want but I would like to get some opinions about it before I spend a good chunk of change on it
Maps Stored on the Phone
to save your data for more important stuff.
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http://www.sygic.com/en/android
sygic
I bought sygic. There's a free time-limited market d/l and my USA upgrade was $20. I've used it on one trip and it was very a functional turn-by-turn experience. Maps are by Tom-Tom.
i wish you could cache more than 10 square miles in google maps... 10 just never seems like enough!
Downloaded the trial version of Sygic and took it for a spin. Without the GPS dongle I lost GPS connection randomly but with the dongle I was able to complete a 10 mile journey with Voice guidance without any issue.
ajamils said:
I am planning on using my Prime in the car and would like to know what is the best "offline" alternative to Google Navigation. I have heard about Sygic but do not have personal experience with it.
Any suggestion?
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Well, SYGIC is great. Me and a collegue both tested NAVIGON and SYGIC and SYGIC is by far the winner!
Google Maps "offline" is not recommendable. You only will download a 10x10 tile. Not more!
Google announced they will be adding full offline support (not just a 10x10 tile), but it's not out yet.
handi1948 said:
Well, SYGIC is great. Me and a collegue both tested NAVIGON and SYGIC and SYGIC is by far the winner!
Google Maps "offline" is not recommendable. You only will download a 10x10 tile. Not more!
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ZANavi for android.
It's a fork from NAVIT. Free, using free Openstreetmaps, you can download entire countries, or even the whole world lol. There is a possibility to donwload only a limited region on navit's website (google it).
Not as sexy as paid versions but it does the job.
And people speaking about google maps please provide correct info. Offline maps in it is only an anounce, with no ETA.
I use GoPilot Live Pro and like it. I think they have a free version you can try, but eventually, you will want to go to the PRO version. If you find a map error, you can submit a correction to them and they will fix it. In addition to that, I also run WAZE...it's an online map service, but has the best info on Police/traffic congestion/accidents because it's totally based on user reporting. I don't know why, but their routing is attrocious. I use CoPilot for my directions, and check in on Waze to check the road conditions ahead. To use Waze, I just tether my phone to the Prime.
Bob
I haven't really used it myself for navigation, but Osmand is superb for viewing maps and tracking. It is easy to download vector maps for each country from within the app and there is a wide variety of online maps. The navigation is provided by Cloud made, YOURS, OpenRouteService, or the offline option.
I've tried Navit, and it works, but the UI is disgusting.
yeah try ZANavi. its free, its offline.
and if you find the time help to translate:
https://translations.launchpad.net/zanavi/navit-orig-import/+pots/navit
https://translations.launchpad.net/zanavi/trunk/+pots/zanavi
Hello friends,
A small glitch I found on my reno 10x, (pcm00) google map doesn't know my location and no matter what permission i gave to google map, it still does not auto locate and update my location.
When i was using nokia 7 plus (which i also bought in china), google map worked fine and were able to auto locate my location, as long I am using a vpn.
Normally this is not an issue since other local Chinese map apps work perfect, but i am travelling to Germany soon, so this gets me worry a bit.
I have not had a chance to try google map outside of China yet, and am wondering if this situation will remained even if im not in China.
Anyone else have this phone that is currently in a place with firewall-free internet access and can give me any conformation? Thanks, really appreciate it.
liveman2k said:
Hello friends,
A small glitch I found on my reno 10x, (pcm00) google map doesn't know my location and no matter what permission i gave to google map, it still does not auto locate and update my location.
When i was using nokia 7 plus (which i also bought in china), google map worked fine and were able to auto locate my location, as long I am using a vpn.
Normally this is not an issue since other local Chinese map apps work perfect, but i am travelling to Germany soon, so this gets me worry a bit.
I have not had a chance to try google map outside of China yet, and am wondering if this situation will remained even if im not in China.
Anyone else have this phone that is currently in a place with firewall-free internet access and can give me any conformation? Thanks, really appreciate it.
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I'm using the same phone in the US. No vpn on AT&T. I don't have a problem with Google maps except that I can't turn on location history for timeline. Otherwise location works fine. I've used Google maps dozen of times for directions and no problems locating me.