my next question was going to be "how smart is the phone" - the question after that was "how smart is ................"
Offline European maps for an Android phone
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my next question was going to be "how smart is the phone" - the question after that was "how smart is ................"
pah! as they say
contadino
Veteran
- Location
- Chesterfield
Yes. I regularly find roads that just disappear and others where people have just put up no entry signs.
Compared to the maps of London I was working with over the weekend, Puglian maps are pretty shonky.
But they're better than nothing, which is what you're saying.
jay clock
Massive member
- Location
- Hampshire UK
+ a few for maps.me. I had it on Android but now on iphone. Stunning app. I think I have the pro version which might have cost me £2.99.
Download base app. Download countries or regions you want. Works down to alleyway level and ideal if you get lost in a maze of French marshland. Even worked on a plane last week. I was on airplane mode which seemed not to switch off GPS
Download base app. Download countries or regions you want. Works down to alleyway level and ideal if you get lost in a maze of French marshland. Even worked on a plane last week. I was on airplane mode which seemed not to switch off GPS
I dont think there is much between any of them - most seem to use the openstreetmap base which is on the whole pretty good as a detailed map (assuming it is the most up to date version) - Bing is pretty average mapping wise - Google maps is better and both of the latter do the "search for something" better than the OpenSM - power of the tinternet and all that - I havnt seen the fruit version so cant comment - none of what I have looked at is likely to wean me off paper maps - and I dont do lost 
- no harm though in having offline maps downloaded as an additional resource for the twiddly bits
- no harm though in having offline maps downloaded as an additional resource for the twiddly bitsI just tried Maps.me to compare it with OsmAnd and it appeared to be identical and even showed that I had downloaded Galicia N and S already. Are they related by any chance?I dont think there is much between any of them - most seem to use the openstreetmap base which is on the whole pretty good as a detailed map (assuming it is the most up to date version) - Bing is pretty average mapping wise - Google maps is better and both of the latter do the "search for something" better than the OpenSM - power of the tinternet and all that - I havnt seen the fruit version so cant comment - none of what I have looked at is likely to wean me off paper maps - and I dont do lost
their being identical mapping wise is not surprising - the buttons on all these things look very similar - nothing on the website to indicate that they are one and the same
Listen up, you old git, I clicked on Maps.me and it said that I had already downloaded Galicia, so shove it grandpa...
jefmcg
Guru
I'm too lazy to read the whole thread so I am just "liking" all the posts that read "OSMand"
Ive got both already from when I was comparing them
I just had a quick wander thru the two websites - Map.me seems to infer it is based in Moscow - OSmand seems to be of Czech origon - but that could easily be a load of sphericals - it could just be that both apps exports the map pieces with the same names - either app would recognise them?
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
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- Bristol
Maybe both use the same base file from open street mapping?
Yup - I downloaded a big chunk of OStmap a couple of weeks ago - the selection process was in lots of small chunks not dissimilar to the apps selection process
