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Best Offline GPS for Nexus S

I'm in search of a completely offline GPS application, which wouldn't require a wifi or data network to work.
The idea here is to roam with GPS of course, which would be super expensive with data.
So, in your opinion what is the best offline GPS for Nexus s?

iGO ftw, but depends for what areas you need it for
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Google maps is now off line. You can pick a 10 mile radius to load maps on your SD card and have it off line. I wish they did more than 10 miles so I don't have to patch it around.
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Sygic Aura, CoPilot.
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obsanity said:
Google maps is now off line. You can pick a 10 mile radius to load maps on your SD card and have it off line. I wish they did more than 10 miles so I don't have to patch it around.
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But does it actually allow you to do navigation while offline? Or just download the maps to view?

superm1 said:
But does it actually allow you to do navigation while offline? Or just download the maps to view?
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That was the whole idea. Google wanted you to be able to navigate in the desert without internet connection. All you need for it to function is your GPS on and previously downloaded map. Update your Google maps. It's all spelled out in there.

Wow thats very cool. Can't wait to try it
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Igo maps requires storage onto sd card. My nexus s doesnt have an sd card slot. How to proceed?
Sygic Auro seems to be running fine. It just won't find me to exact location, im one block away from my location.

daudster said:
Igo maps requires storage onto sd card. My nexus s doesnt have an sd card slot. How to proceed?
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While it doesn't have a SD card slot, it does use a partition on its internal hard disk as a 16GB sd card (or perhaps a bit less but it's approx 16GB). You should be able to fit it on there.

daudster said:
So, in your opinion what is the best offline GPS for Nexus s?
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I haven't used Navigon on an Android phone, but my wife has it on her iPhone and it's pretty good. See http://www.navigon.com/portal/int/produkte/navigationssoftware/mobile_navigator_android.html

Google maps navigation is the best.
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I use to use Ndrive
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Copilot is ok, but i actually prefer google nav

have you guys actually been able to use google navigation offline? I've tried it multiple times but no dice...
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The route is calculated online on Google Nav and that could be a big problem.
When I miss a street you need to wait the new route to be transfered, which would be ok if the 3G network was stable.
I recommend iGo.

jaker.the.skater said:
have you guys actually been able to use google navigation offline? I've tried it multiple times but no dice...
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I'm using it offline quite a bit since it came out. Just to save on data.
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obsanity said:
That was the whole idea. Google wanted you to be able to navigate in the desert without internet connection. All you need for it to function is your GPS on and previously downloaded map. Update your Google maps. It's all spelled out in there.
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i'v already tried this and even trying it right now as we speak, its just for map cache, you need to have an internet connection to get the directions initially, and you better hope you don't miss a turn when you are offline, because you ain't gonna get a reroute from google maps while offline, people are confused about this feature, its map cache, that is all, its useless. So google maps is not the way to go for offline nav, just go with copilot or something simular. All you need to do is search the various markets,appstores out there for Android and read reviews of each app you come across. good luck.

CoPilot USA works great for me. Recommended by Android Guys.... guys?
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im trying co-pilot myself for canada. Works good. locks on. pretty accurate.

My choice is Sygic GPS Navigation without any doubts!
The best interface I ever seen... accurate, simple, clear, immediate and complete at the mean time. It's free to try for 7 days, I strongly suggest to take a look by yourself.

Google Maps

How well does the offline Google Maps Navigation work? I just find it as an interesting feature and was wondering how well does it work for some of you?

I don't believe there is offline navigation, just offline maps only.

The map only is offline... but navigation still need an internet connection or gps... so what do u mean with offline navigation?
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Search, someone did it using offline maps in a city. The GPS still works without wifi
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I've noticed maps doesn't work without WiFi, but if you start navigation before you leave your connection it will still guide you and update routes in realtime.
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flash_beezy said:
I've noticed maps doesn't work without WiFi, but if you start navigation before you leave your connection it will still guide you and update routes in realtime.
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For Maps to work offline, you have to mark an area to be available for offline usage (it caches it). Simply click make available offline in the overflow menu (well it's there on my Galaxy Nexus it might be somewhere on the Nexus 7).

navFree has good navigation. Download the maps for offline use and all that is needed is GPS.

Google Maps can be used offline if you select and save an area.\
Google Maps Navigation can't be used offline even if you do the above.
Other third party navigation apps can be used offline.

neok44 said:
Google Maps can be used offline if you select and save an area.\
Google Maps Navigation can't be used offline even if you do the above.
Other third party navigation apps can be used offline.
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Like I said Google navigation will work offline if you start it while your still connected to WiFi @home or current location.
Once its loaded it will do turn by turn and update as you go using GPS. I've played with it over the weekend and it kept updating and telling me to do a uturn when I changed course, then finally figured out where I was going and updated accordingly.
It may help that I have the SF bay area saved in maps
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flash_beezy said:
Like I said Google navigation will work offline if you start it while your still connected to WiFi @home or current location.
Once its loaded it will do turn by turn and update as you go using GPS. I've played with it over the weekend and it kept updating and telling me to do a uturn when I changed course, then finally figured out where I was going and updated accordingly.
It may help that I have the SF bay area saved in maps
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guess that could be true on newer versions. One time i was driving to orlando and lost service and navigation paused and said it would resume when i got a data connection back. this was well over a year ago though on my nexus one.

neok44 said:
guess that could be true on newer versions. One time i was driving to orlando and lost service and navigation paused and said it would resume when i got a data connection back. this was well over a year ago though on my nexus one.
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Yep, testing this on my nexus 7 I didn't imply that it would pertain to any other android device.
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flash_beezy said:
Yep, testing this on my nexus 7 I didn't imply that it would pertain to any other android device.
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very good to know that it's smart enough to do that now. going to come in handy since i always lose data with t-mobile driving up to orlando.

neok44 said:
very good to know that it's smart enough to do that now. going to come in handy since i always lose data with t-mobile driving up to orlando.
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I tested it a bit too. It took it a bit to figure out I made a wrong turn. Eventually it started telling me where to turn again, but it wouldn't say the street names. It would just say things like "turn right in 800 feet."

flash_beezy said:
Like I said Google navigation will work offline if you start it while your still connected to WiFi @home or current location.
Once its loaded it will do turn by turn and update as you go using GPS. I've played with it over the weekend and it kept updating and telling me to do a uturn when I changed course, then finally figured out where I was going and updated accordingly.
It may help that I have the SF bay area saved in maps
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neok44 said:
guess that could be true on newer versions. One time i was driving to orlando and lost service and navigation paused and said it would resume when i got a data connection back. this was well over a year ago though on my nexus one.
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I have been doing this with my old OG DROID for a while, start navigation with it connected to my home wifi and have it work all the way ro my destination with no signal at all

Only reason why i wish I had a data plan...directions! Guess i gotta try out a better offline app
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Saving Google Maps to Evernote on Nexus

Going away this weekend and I want to save directions on Google maps to Evernote on my Nexus, when I had my laptop I just copied and pasted the directions into Evernote from maps and that was fine, but I tried to copy and paste from Maps to Evernote and it's not giving me the option, tried to make maps available offline but it can't seem to include the directions, and unless I find free wifi I won't have Internet, anyone any ideas?
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Does anyone have any ideas here?
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Offline satnav/gps for us east coast?

Im going to America in july for about a month and will need a sat nav app to use offline as i will be in airplane mode with gps on.
Preferably free or cheap
Leave me your recommendations.

I can't comment on east coast coverage... But I've used copilot for a couple years. It's relatively cheap and works well enough. A lot of people like sygic too.
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Download the area in Google maps app(menu -> make available offline) and you won't need data connection later. There won't be any live traffic info but at least navigation will work.

morbidz said:
Download the area in Google maps app(menu -> make available offline) and you won't need data connection later. There won't be any live traffic info but at least navigation will work.
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You can't download a big area so it is kind of useless
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DenmarkRootN00b said:
You can't download a big area so it is kind of useless
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Check CoPilot on Market
There's free version
But the one with full voice navigation, only $10
Will need to download maps, could pick either whole usa or some states
Uses tomtom maps
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I have downloaded navfree but my provider accidently cut my phone line so i have had no way to download the full maps, i will give sygic and go and copilot a download once im back online.

Navigation

What's the name of the best nav app for nexus 4?

Google Maps?
Please stop creating dumb threads.

I would also say Google maps.

waze

chack out navigator in the play store. it's free and uses offline maps from either openstreetmap or tomtom. recommended esp. for foreign travel where you want to avoid roaming data charges.

estallings15 said:
Google Maps?
Please stop creating dumb threads.
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+1
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Honestly, Google maps navigation. I used a few different navigation apps on my iPhone, so once I went Android, I tried them on here too and Google maps navigation just seemed to work the best.
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Sygic
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+1 for waze
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But the peoblem is the phone don't like the big temperature.
Caant't use as navi on big roadtrips

Google bought Waze recently. Lol
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scream4cheese said:
Google bought Waze recently. Lol
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Sadly Google navigation is not available in all countries and regions.