On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote:
On 31 July 2013 18:29, Tom Wilkins <tom@kampucheahouse.org> wrote:
1) Yes, but you'll need to download (and quite possibly buy) a GPS solution from someone else other than Google. Have a look HERE as a few options are mentioned. You will need a fair amount of internal storage to hold the maps. Micro SD cards are cheap but so are data plans from MVNOs like Vaya or Amaysim. If I was you I'd just get a no contract data plan for the months leading up to you swapping your normal plan over. The Google maps/navigation program is very good! And it's worth having a data connection as it will give you the best route for the traffic conditions at that given time.
In case it isn't clear from the above, current versions of Google maps/navigation will NOT work without a continuous online connection. Or rather, it will display your location, but not be able to load map tiles, so be rather useless.
Well not quite correct, if you know your route in advance while you have WiFi you can make a map area available offline see http://www.androidauthority.com/google-maps-offline-ok-maps-easter-egg-24158... for information It is a pain to use offline in google maps and I personally use navigon from garmin on my S3 which is completely offline but is around $50 (I got a free version included with the S3) I did try OSMAnd for a while but you needed a data connection to do the routing, maps were offline though. It may have changed now as I have not used it recently. -- Mark "Pockets" Clohesy Mob Phone: (+61) 406 417 877 Email: hiddensoul@twistedsouls.com G-Talk: mark.clohesy@gmail.com GNU/Linux..Linux Counter #457297 - "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code" "Linux is user friendly...its just selective about who its friends are"