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| - | ====== Best off-line navigator for Android 2015 ====== | ||
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| - | It's December 2014 and I need to go back for Christmas to Italy from France, so I need an " | ||
| - | And possibly, I want it free. | ||
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| - | So I tested 7 of the most popular gps android applications that offer off-line turn-by-turn navigation. | ||
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| - | I can with confidence affirm that today the " | ||
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| - | ===== HERE maps by Nokia ===== | ||
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| - | By far the simpler interface, faster to render the map and to compute the trip, even a long one. | ||
| - | It is completelly free, and I like that before starting the navigation it allows to see and choose between various possible variants. | ||
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| - | ===== OsmAnd ===== | ||
| - | It is the most comlete, options rich and map detailed solution. However you pay this richness in a interface that it's way more complicated than HERE and in a general slowness. To compute a trip between Nancy to Turin (420 km involving 3 countries) it tooks (remember we are using them in full offline mode) 5 minutes, agains the few second of HERE. | ||
| - | Also,if you want to download more than 10 regional maps, you pay a one-time fee of 8 US$ (very small compared with e.g. the ~40 USD per single area of Sygic). | ||
| - | As a plus both the app and the maps (OpenStreetMap) are open source, and you can use the app to contribute back to the main database. | ||
| - | Also, differently from HERE, you can choose to download a " | ||
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| - | ===== Conclusion ===== | ||
| - | You want a simple solution tha it works well ? Go with HERE maps. You prefer to have more control, settings and prefer an open-sourse solution? Go for OsmAnd. | ||
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| - | Both are on the Play Store, and given their quality I am sorry I don't see space for the other solutions that I tried: Sygic, NavFree, Be-on-road Navigator, MapFactor Navigator. | ||
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| - | ~~DISCUSSION~~ | ||
