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Dear All,
I use the Navigation application on my HTC Desire S here in the UK. I am due to holiday in Canada soon and wondered if the Navigation application would still work? Does it automatically recognise that I am in Canada? Would I have to download or buy maps of Canada? Many thanks, John |
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Dear All,
I use the Navigation application on my HTC Desire S here in the UK. I am due to holiday in Canada soon and wondered if the Navigation application would still work? Does it automatically recognise that I am in Canada? Would I have to download or buy maps of Canada? Many thanks, John ![]() The navigation is a little flakier (if i recall from when i used it in the US). its best if you can 'set your route' before leaving using wifi. but that may have improved with recent updates. |
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Google could do themselves a massive favour and allow full country downloads.
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Google could do themselves a massive favour and allow full country downloads.
I have built in sat nav now but my next car may not so I had a play with Google Navigation and thought it was OK. I would still buy CoPilot or Navigon though as a back up as they only cost about 40 quid. |
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the navigation application on android is principally designed to download maps as it goes. this may not be ideally suited to when you are roaming. whilst it will probably work. there is the issue of the money.
better would be an offline navigation app. this one is pretty good: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ndroid.OSM.ALL and you will be able to download the maps for canada before you go. |
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Cache the maps you need before you go, and download NavFree (and download the Canada maps) before you go.
Both free options, and you have two chances to have a working solution when you land. |
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Thank you all for your replies. I will look into the downloads before going.
Cheers, John |
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the navigation application on android is principally designed to download maps as it goes
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Thank you all for your replies. I will look into the downloads before going.
Cheers, John Also what are going to do for data, you can get a payg sim (as long as your phone is unlocked) in canada. Google maps does not take up much data, even without pre-caching you are only talking about a few tens of mb. |
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do you have wifi in your hotel, its quite common in the US and canada. You can cache the maps there.
Also what are going to do for data, you can get a payg sim (as long as your phone is unlocked) in canada. Google maps does not take up much data, even without pre-caching you are only talking about a few tens of mb. |
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All the better to keeps tabs on its users.
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Unnecessary storage? You can get the whole of Europe in little over 2GB. Peanuts.
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2GB is not peanuts for a mobile device mate, not really. It's quite a lot if it's unnecessary. It's also a lot of extra data to be served on a free service that generates no revenue from ads like YouTube.
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I think the truth is probably somewhere in between. There are reasons and it also suits Google's agenda.
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2GB is not peanuts for a mobile device
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Are you posting from the 1990s?
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A few tens of mb? So like £100 quid's worth of data roaming then?
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Cache the maps you need before you go, and download NavFree (and download the Canada maps) before you go.
Both free options, and you have two chances to have a working solution when you land. On the iPad though, you also need to download a voice, im not sure if thats the same for android. Luckily we had wifi in the villa we had so got the voice pack once there. |
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This sums up perfectly why i use Nokia Maps, Because it simply wipes the floor with Google maps in every way possible, and not only does it offer complete offline navigation it's free!
That's also why my next phone will be a Lumia! |
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Thanks for the further messages. My phone does have 8GB storage card inserted with approx. 5.7GB free - after downloading 7 blocks of ~80MB GoogleMaps. This is the limit, it will not allow another download.
Will look in to the NavFree as a backup. John |
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NavFree Canada Map 705MB!
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You have to remember that google maps is able to go down to much more detail with all the different zoom levels and additional information.
I can download a huge amount from google maps in 1 block, if you can get 8 then surely thats enough for anybody until they get to a wifi hotspot or hotel to download more if they need it. 2GB is a lot of data to be transferred per user from google for a free service. I think this is a sensible restriction. I'm amazed it's free, but some still aren't happy with 2GB worth of maps free and a free service. |
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All the better to keeps tabs on its users.
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why would you use data roaming ? As I said, get yourself a local sim when you land or pre-purchase from the UK.
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