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- | ====== Best off-line navigator for Android 2015 ====== | + | ====== Best off-line |
It's December 2014 and I need to go back for Christmas to Italy from France, so I need an " | 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. | And possibly, I want it free. | ||
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===== HERE maps by Nokia ===== | ===== HERE maps by Nokia ===== | ||
- | By far the simpler | + | [[https:// |
- | It is completelly | + | |
+ | It is completely | ||
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===== OsmAnd ===== | ===== 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, | + | |
- | Also,if you want to download more than 10 regional | + | [[https:// |
- | 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 " | + | 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 ===== | ===== 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. | ||
- | 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. | + | 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: | ||
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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 destination.. | ||
~~DISCUSSION~~ | ~~DISCUSSION~~ | ||