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Re: Off-line mapping apps

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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).

  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.

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

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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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