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Re: Off-line mapping apps

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On 09/20/2015 12:19 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> 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.
>
>    It's not really obvious, but not that hard:
>
>    -> Search for -> Address -> if needed, tap on 'Region' and select the
> region (probably US or Utah) -> tap on 'City' -> enter city (Zion) ->
> sometimes a 'Search more villages/postcode' is needed -> select the city
> ->
>
>    Now you'll get a search for the street, but because you don't
> know/want the/a street, you tap the back-button (twice).

Oh.  TWICE.  Wait, I think that got me completely out.  I'll try again, 
but I never saw a 'Region' thing, just 'United States' and couldn't see 
the state name until I did something else.

OK, I'll follow your instructions.

>    Now you're back on the "ADDRESS" page. On the bottom of that page is
> the directions icon (and the other familiar icons (Destination point/
> Waypoint, Show on map ,Favorite)).
>
>    The directions will guide you to the centre of the town in question.
>
>    Elementary, dear Watson! :-)
>
>    But seriously, OsmAnd's UI sucks big time, especially since the last
> big overhaul, but it's still my preferred OSM app, especially because of
> the very frequent - compared to other OSM apps - map updates.

Not at all intuitive.  I hate multi-level hierarchies and trying to 
guess where some stranger thought would be a good place to hide something.

>    FYI, my other OSM apps are Be-on-road and Navfree. My other non-free
> maps apps are Sygic and CoPilot GPS.

Does Sygic give you 30 days or so for free and then demand money?  That 
may have been why I dumped it before...  I don't do free trials, 
especially when I don't know that it's just a trial.


-- 
Cheers, Bev
=============================================
If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
start with a small country.

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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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