I cannot seem to download offline copies of maps in Google Maps. My idea was to download map data while at home and connected to my home WiFi so that I don't need to use data while driving in areas where I have already downloaded the maps.
I add an area to download and it always just sits there waiting to download and 0%. I left my unit powered up in my house about 6 feet from the access point over night and it still was at 0% the next day.
Has anyone else had this issue?
I'm using an 8227L head unit.
Hi yes, today actually. It worked fine when I shared my phone's hotspot. Not really a fix more a get around
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Google is probably one of the best online map systems there is.... but it's also probaly one of the WORST offline systems there is. Tons of better offline nav apps at the playstore to download. IGO, Sygic, TomTom....
Bob_Sanders said:
Google is probably one of the best online map systems there is.... but it's also probaly one of the WORST offline systems there is. Tons of better offline nav apps at the playstore to download. IGO, Sygic, TomTom....
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Or Here WeGO
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dampy78 said:
Hi yes, today actually. It worked fine when I shared my phone's hotspot. Not really a fix more a get around
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I tried using my phone hotspot and it still will not download.
Fixed it! I went into the play store and downloaded the update for the Google Maps app.
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I live in a dark age country were no real data contracts exit. So i need an offline gps application, like say Igo Myway.
Has anyone used a gps app like that on the note ? How are they scaling ?
I will be using google maps for now, but i have a total of 300mb for all my data needs. ( the dark ages really)
I would also appreciate any advice you could give me about navigation applications.
Is google maps a data drainer? Is there a way to download the entire city map?
Thanks.
Can you just load the google maps on your home or business internet before you leave? According to the google navigation for mobile site it caches the routes.
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google.c o m /mobile/navigation/
sygic or copilot
sygic is better and works flawless
http://www.sygic.com/en/android
Interesting, but I suggest to the administrator moving this thread to "apps"
blobotorian said:
Is google maps a data drainer? Is there a way to download the entire city map?
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You can pre-download, over wifi, sections (10 x10 mile square) of google maps by turning on the 'google labs' option. However, they expire in 30 days and you must redownload them again.
Google maps, like any continuous data flow, will suck down data pretty fiercely if you are doing a long drive.
I'd definitely consider getting a standalone nav program if you can't rely on your data plan.
- Frank
I preloaded a route before i went on driving. It worked really well. It used about 2 mb for a drive of 34 miles.
Thank you for that
But i will diffidently need a dedicated off-line app.
sygic or ndrive are the best.
google maps is poor at best, quite often out of date and the navigation only works in a handfull of places.
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I'm living in a wood age village too. Try using "Mapdroyd". Works just great.
Someone advised Locus. It looks good.
thelestat said:
sygic or ndrive are the best.
google maps is poor at best, quite often out of date and the navigation only works in a handfull of places.
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sygic looks wonderful on the note. Beats many dedicated gps devices.
Oops, sorry. I don't have my Note till tomorrow. This was used on an Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade)....
Navmii is a free app I downloaded and tried for the first time yesterday. I don't know what map regions are available but they have UK and Ireland, which suits me perfectly. The UK maps are a 300MB+ download for offline use. There is no need for a data connection to run the app once it is installed (via WiFi of course. ).
Details/discussion and download links here - http://getsatisfaction.com/navmii/topics/android_release
I also have CoPilot Live Premium, for which I paid, and have in the past used TomTom. On yesterday's 100 mile journey Navmii gave a route identical in distance and forecast ETA as TomTom. It worked flawlessly on that journey.
I do alot of off road where there is no wifi or 3g/4g. I need a nice app where I can download sat images and maybe even layer them with terrain. I won't be able to download on the road nor the trail. I tryed to use "maps". But I couldn't seem to get the maps. I always know where in goin(area) the next day. So I can download them ahead of time... I tried a couple diff apps. But most where paved roads. Nothing with sat. Memory space is not a problem. Planing on doing a seperate SD card just for this. Any help will be great. Thank you.
You looking for something like this?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.crittermap.backcountrynavigator.license&hl=en. They do have a demo version
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i played with that one before. Its nice for sure. But I can't get it to give me roads too. I want Google maps to work offline. That would be great.
You should be able to cache Google Maps offline. I believe it is a Beta labs feature for maps where you can designate an area for offline use while you are still connected to a data network.
beta labs?
I think there are several off line GPS programs, including Waze and something called ZANavi. I think there are others as well, but if you search for offline GPS, there are quite a few, including Google's June 2011 announcement of offline maps, which has not apparently come to fruition yet.
good luck.
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You should be able to cache Google Maps offline. I believe it is a Beta labs feature for maps where you can designate an area for offline use while you are still connected to a data network.
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I dont think you can pre-cache the terrain or satellite overlay though. At least it doesnt work on mine.
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I dont think you can pre-cache the terrain or satellite overlay though. At least it doesnt work on mine.
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Me too..... sucks cause I like "maps"
this is the only one i can find..
i tried it long long ago and did not work right with my tablet.. .Check Amazon app market for a trial downlaod.. it might be the solution ..if its now honeycomb/tablet supported
GOOD Luck
oops I forgot the link http://www.gaiagps.com/
you can load maps from many locations I got it from amazon asdi said above.. Just tried to load it and it comes up..but i have no maps d/loaded
tile cache for google maps
Ive been playing around with the google maps some more......even though the pre-cached maps with terrain overlays doesnt work well I did discover a way to do it.
First go to the grounds area you want cached and choose the layer that works best for you.
Next zoom to your desired scale and the view will slowly come to focus. When it does it seems to automatically cache that tile area. Problem is you will have to slowly scroll to each section of the landscape you want cached pausing until in focus. Hopefully its not too large of an area. It does seem to work and stores the info even after restart.
i have been caching tiles like you said all night.(in between my bf3 battles) It seems to keep them on there. i shut off wifi, and rebooted. still there. But for how long. I hope its there for good. i love that app.
Anyone know how to get gps working on this without Wifi? Or a way we can download maps that work in google nav?
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Anyone know how to get gps working on this without Wifi? Or a way we can download maps that work in google nav?
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I believe that you are required to have a wifi/data connection to use google navigation. You can cache that maps manually but I think this only provides you with the maps themselves, not navigation.
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I believe that you are required to have a wifi/data connection to use google navigation. You can cache that maps manually but I think this only provides you with the maps themselves, not navigation.
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Yeah been trying out the cache and that's really disappointing i was hoping to use it in my dash. they don't make it clear on their site that its required to have a data connection.
GPS works fine without WiFi. If you want to use navigation, start your route where u have a wifi connection. Or you can use a different app that has offline navigation
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For offline navigation I suggest navigon
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Problem with starting my route with wifi is for work i move around a lot from client to client, not always having a hotspot..that being said i was hoping to use this device without having to tether but it looks like for me thats my only option.
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Problem with starting my route with wifi is for work i move around a lot from client to client, not always having a hotspot..that being said i was hoping to use this device without having to tether but it looks like for me thats my only option.
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Yes, for now, that would be one of your only options. Another option tho, use a different navigation app.
I am travelling to a new country soon, and want to save map of tht city for offline viewing, but I simply cant seem to see that option anymore.
Please guide me, using latest updated version of Google Map.
PS: Is this option taken out ? Any alternatives ?
Maybe a Google search ?
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Maybe a Google search ?
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Have read all google help topics and done search as well... but there is simply no option for offline view tht I can click !!
https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3273567
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https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3273567
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Perfect mate !
Now please guide me, how can I
1] delete the cached map and
2] how can I specify how many MB of space I wana reserve for caching the map.
Any good alternatives other than google maps.... these google guys have messedup a perfectly working system it seems on the new versions.
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Perfect mate !
Now please guide me, how can I
1] delete the cached map and
2] how can I specify how many MB of space I wana reserve for caching the map.
Any good alternatives other than google maps.... these google guys have messedup a perfectly working system it seems on the new versions.
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It used to be in the menu... why is it hidden with a secret command..... wtf is going on with the world... eeverything is so fookin against end users nowadays.
Or get an alternative app?
Personally I like MapsWithMe. It doesn't run on Google Maps but on OpenStreetMap.org, which means it's quite a lot more accurate and extensive. (Even lists benches and power lines.) Just a suggestion.
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Or get an alternative app?
Personally I like MapsWithMe. It doesn't run on Google Maps but on OpenStreetMap.org, which means it's quite a lot more accurate and extensive. (Even lists benches and power lines.) Just a suggestion.
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Thanks for the tip - never heard of it before, just tried it and it's excellent - time to ditch CoPilot
I've used RMaps which you can download a city map to something daft like 3 feet, viewable offline, multiple map scales so you can zoom in/out offline, download via wifi, cached/downloaded maps saved to SDCard, GPS tracker and multiple maps to choose from including Google, Ordinance Survey Maps + more....
I use this before I run Google and can have clear street view before I've set foot out of the door
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I use navigator. It doesn't need a data connection because you download maps either paid or free (I use the free ones and they are fine). I found even when Google maps let you download a map you still couldn't navigate on it without a data connection anyway. Which made it kind of pointless.
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I just made a search in Google play for apps suggested above "RMaps" and "Navigator" and I am not able to find app as such on the play store.... ?
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Or get an alternative app?
Personally I like MapsWithMe. It doesn't run on Google Maps but on OpenStreetMap.org, which means it's quite a lot more accurate and extensive. (Even lists benches and power lines.) Just a suggestion.
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I tried it and it looks nice but it is not for voice guided navigation
Search for MapFactor: GPS Navigation in play store for Navigator.
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I use citymaps 2go pro, used it many times in france without data.
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Unless the DEV removed Rmaps maybe (I'm sure I downloaded it from play store") well here's a link to his blog
http://robertdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/rmaps.html?m=1
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I have tried all maps mentioned here, but none of them are as smooth and easy to understand as Google maps. Most of them are slow and laggy and also take forever to load location names and details.
Now I would be stuck without wifi and now wonder what to do....
Hey guys. I recently purchased the Xtrons PB7646BAP Android 6 Octacore and have been running it for about 2 weeks now. I absolutely love it. Really fast, boots instantly. Everything seems to work as advertised etc. I pretty much have been using it with spotify but also with simple radio and google maps and here maps and everything seems to work pretty much as you would expect.
A couple questions I have that maybe somebody can help with is, is there a way to change what mode button toggles through?
Also is there a way to change the default app that opens when starting the headunit? It seems as though it likes to open the bluetooth menu which is weird to me.
Is there a way to make google maps use the gps antenna so that it can work offline with the downloaded offline maps?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hey guys. I recently purchased the Xtrons PB7646BAP Android 6 Octacore and have been running it for about 2 weeks now. I absolutely love it. Really fast, boots instantly. Everything seems to work as advertised etc. I pretty much have been using it with spotify but also with simple radio and google maps and here maps and everything seems to work pretty much as you would expect.
A couple questions I have that maybe somebody can help with is, is there a way to change what mode button toggles through?
Also is there a way to change the default app that opens when starting the headunit? It seems as though it likes to open the bluetooth menu which is weird to me.
Is there a way to make google maps use the gps antenna so that it can work offline with the downloaded offline maps?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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The app loop under mode button can't be changed atm. Waiting for mtcdtools to be updated supporting px5 units...ad we could create our own app loop.
Afaik Google maps use the headunit gps position (you have to enable locations in your headunit). Offline gps apps use the gos antenna..
The app that shows after waking up is the last apps (mtcd apps - any of the apps on the loop mode) that you used prior the sleep.
I am.sure you are not using the stock music player ....but if you use it and you sleep the unit...it will wake up by showing music stock app
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ikerg said:
The app loop under mode button can't be changed atm. Waiting for mtcdtools to be updated supporting px5 units...ad we could create our own app loop.
Afaik Google maps use the headunit gps position (you have to enable locations in your headunit). Offline gps apps use the gos antenna..
The app that shows after waking up is the last apps (mtcd apps - any of the apps on the loop mode) that you used prior the sleep.
I am.sure you are not using the stock music player ....but if you use it and you sleep the unit...it will wake up by showing music stock app
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Thanks for the info, I am new to android and everything that goes with it, so I appreciate the help
So probably bluetooth settings is the last thing I used that it considers when looking for latest apps. Make sense