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- | ====== Best off-line GPS 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 " | ||
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- | 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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- | It is completely free, and I particularly like the fact that before starting the navigation you have a nice overview of the trip that allows to see and choose between different variants. | ||
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- | ===== OsmAnd ===== | ||
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- | Also,if you want to download more than 10 area maps, you pay a one-time fee of 8 US$ (very small compared with e.g. the ~40 USD per single area of Sygic). | ||
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- | 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 ===== | ||
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- | You want a simple solution that 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: [[https:// | ||
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- | They both fully work in off-line mode: looking for an address, the computation of the optimal path and the turn-by-turn navigation all don't require an active connection. | ||
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- | The only think I miss from them is a small 1x1 android widget //à la// Google Navigation to point it to a destination (home, shopping mail, office..) so that you can set it to your wife (..or husband :-) ) so that she (he) can just click the widget and the navigator starts the turn-by-turn indications toward the desired point.. | ||
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- | ~~DISCUSSION~~ | ||