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Downloadable maps?

I remember at the launch party in London, they mentioned that you could preload maps, which you could then use in case you're in an area where you have no internet access.
They also mentioned that the maps would be free for download.
Does anyone have anymore information on this or how we can download the maps?

I'm sure this is in the user manual...
Open locations, then go menu > upgrade > download maps
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Does the upgrade to Premium also enable the Navigation button in the Car Panel. Mine is greyed out.

Yes, turn by turn nav is chargeable. Anyone seen the news that tomtom maps are coming to the dhd and desire z? Interesting!
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I hope you are right Dazultra

The map data is from tomtom who own teleatlas maps. It does not imply the tomtom application is coming to the hd.
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Yes, turn by turn nav is chargeable. Anyone seen the news that tomtom maps are coming to the dhd and desire z? Interesting!
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Actually the current maps are route66. I didn't say the tomtom app was coming, just that other maps by tomtom are. Was on engadget.
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Basil3 said:
I'm sure this is in the user manual...
Open locations, then go menu > upgrade > download maps
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How many maps can we download??
I've read that we are entitle to 3 free maps, is this right?? And that those 3 maps are all taken account your location, 1 is the map from where you are and the other 2 are from two countries near your country. Is this right? if Yes, does it matter where I bought the phone or not?!? If I buy a phone from England I would get a map from England and two other countries near England or do I get a map from Portugal (my location) and two other from countries near Portugal?!=!
Please, someone answer me, cause I really need to decide where I'm going to buy the phone...

onesolo said:
How many maps can we download??
I've read that we are entitle to 3 free maps, is this right?? And that those 3 maps are all taken account your location, 1 is the map from where you are and the other 2 are from two countries near your country. Is this right? if Yes, does it matter where I bought the phone or not?!? If I buy a phone from England I would get a map from England and two other countries near England or do I get a map from Portugal (my location) and two other from countries near Portugal?!=!
Please, someone answer me, cause I really need to decide where I'm going to buy the phone...
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I'm in the UK, and the phone came preloaded with UK, Ireland and France maps. I believe you can download any other maps for free, its just the turn-by-turn navigation you pay for.
I'm going back to New Zealand for Xmas and have already downloaded the maps for there.
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How much do we pay for the turn-by-turn navigation?
Is it subscription based? Any time limit like X euro for Y days?
Is the turn-by-turn "intelligent" provided by TomTom or HTC Locations?

Yes it is subscription based and the prices vary a lot. You can do it per month, per year, or for life. Traffic and cameras are separate and again, per month or year.
What do you mean by intelligent?
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charging for navigation?
what a step backwards...
i swear htc dont want people to buy this phone.
such a shame because i REALLY wanted to get this phone. it seems so good.

DontHate said:
charging for navigation?
what a step backwards...
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You can still use Google Maps or any other mapping app out there. I'm not sure how it's really a step backwards, at least the options there.

The locations app is very nice, but its missing postcode lookup.
Which is really weird for a paid navigation system.
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Is there any price list somewhere? I am interested in the "for life" price for WESTERN EUROPE.
At least: Benelux + Germany + France
What I meant with "intelligent" is the navigation app ... the logic behind the turn-by-turn routing. Is it provided by TomTom or HTC?
I meant, if TomTom "only" provide the maps ... that could mean the navigation app is created by HTC.
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Yes it is subscription based and the prices vary a lot. You can do it per month, per year, or for life. Traffic and cameras are separate and again, per month or year.
What do you mean by intelligent?
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Western Europe for life is 50 dollars US.
I don't know who does the intelligence. I think the current maps are provided by route 66, and tomtom will be providing alternatives (for a healthy profit I assume!)
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Basil3 said:
I'm in the UK, and the phone came preloaded with UK, Ireland and France maps. I believe you can download any other maps for free, its just the turn-by-turn navigation you pay for.
I'm going back to New Zealand for Xmas and have already downloaded the maps for there.
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Awesome, I live in NZ so it's good to hear they have maps for us

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.

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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.

help important

i need a gps that works without internet .
i got a driverlicense and i need a gps but i have no 3g support so i need a non internet gps plz help me

Try Sygic navigation. It is offline voice guided navigation.
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ok .. and it support every countrey?

try navigon its better
sygic has a free trial for a week. and it remembers if you uninstalled it or not so one week thats it

Google maps has a new offline feature where you can save local maps and then use Navigation without Internet access.
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-DarkKnight- said:
try navigon its better
sygic has a free trial for a week. and it remembers if you uninstalled it or not so one week thats it
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it cost 243 il shekels and its a lot in this price i can buy a new sd card and a big one

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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Offline map Navigation

Hello guys. Does someone have an free offline navigation?
Thnx
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GoogleMaps has downloadable offline data.

radicalisto said:
GoogleMaps has downloadable offline data.
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Can use them for Navigation?
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yes, you can navigate, but area you can save is limited to somehow size of a larger city. I'm looking as well to something like Nokia have, where you can download whole countries and be done with. If you travel outside your country chances are you won't have good data plan and your Google's maps are useless when needed most. Even in your own country how can you anticipate which location has poor service and you need to download data ahead, especially with limited size. it offers.

Don't know in which continent you are living, but you can try MapFactor from the playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapfactor.navigator or Navfree (https://play.google.com/store/search?q=navfree navigator)

Hello, try Maps with me pro or Osmand +, it works perfecty for me

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Hi you can try google maps offline mode which is in beta now.