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Re: Off-line mapping apps

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The Real Bev wrote:
> 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.

I think it's 7 days. Then it quits talking, but otherwise works. It does still 
say "you are there" though.

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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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