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--- personal:blog:2014:1214_best_off-line_navigator_for_android_2015 [2014/12/14 17:08]
antonello Added links and revised text
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 [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand|OsmAnd]] is the most complete, 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 (~700 km involving 3 countries) it took (remember we are using them in full offline mode) 5 minutes, against the few second of HERE.
-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).
+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).
 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.
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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.
-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..
+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..