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Re: Off-line mapping apps

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On 19/09/2015 19:46, The Real Bev wrote:
> I've tried OSMand 2.1.1 and Copilot 9.6.2.957. I've downloaded
> appropriate maps. What I want to do is find a route to Zion National
> Park or Zion Canyon or Zion Utah or any combination thereof. Zip.
> Nothing. Clearly I'm doing something wrong, but I can't even find help
> functions. They find local gas stations, etc. and that's quite nice, but
> I want to find routes to distant locations without city or street names
> when I have no wifi access to google maps, which does what I want just
> fine -- but not out in the middle of nowhere. That's what I hoped OSMand
> and CoPilot would do, and I seem to remember that at some time in the
> past they actually did.
>
> I don't like relying on the Garmin -- when I wanted to do the above
> search, it didn't find Zion unless I added 'Visitor Center' and routed
> me to a nearby town which was WRONG. Looks like these aren't reliable
> either.
>
> Anything new in the last 6 months?
>

Dunno. I use Nokia's 'Where' navigation App (which they're about to sell 
to one of the car makers). That lets you download maps for off-line use 
but, even so, the location search facilities are very limited unless you 
have an internet connection.
-- 
Cheers,
Roger
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Off-line mapping apps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 11:46 -0700
  Re: Off-line mapping apps Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 23:31 +0100
  Re: Off-line mapping apps Ashton Crusher <demi@moore.net> - 2015-09-19 18:54 -0700
    Re: Off-line mapping apps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 20:40 -0700
      Re: Off-line mapping apps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-20 19:28 +0000
        Re: Off-line mapping apps "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 17:36 -0700
          Re: Off-line mapping apps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 20:27 -0700
          Re: Off-line mapping apps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-24 19:20 +0000
  Re: Off-line mapping apps David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-09-20 06:08 +0100
  Re: Off-line mapping apps Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-20 19:19 +0000
    Re: Off-line mapping apps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 18:03 -0700
      Re: Off-line mapping apps "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 17:39 -0700
    Re: Off-line mapping apps The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 22:51 -0700
  Re: Off-line mapping apps Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2015-09-23 18:04 +0000

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