Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roger Mills Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Off-line mapping apps Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 23:31:22 +0100 Organization: Association of Revolting Peasants Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net PM04mvXNIUFFcr1mvZGqag3nIzSXT748swVgj2QO8eXjFvp08D Cancel-Lock: sha1:qW8/PyXhHsQ/fy1XjQW9XI0E/To= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:22397 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 ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.