Off-Road GPS....

CaptainMatt said:

Sorry bud, I'm located in Germany but I'm on the hunt for maps for Romania...if there are any!

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1st result for "Romanian maps for memory map" Memory-Map : Memory-Map > Adventurer 2800 Accessories took me less than 5secs.

Hema maps (down under) they have turn by turn navigation maps for off road routes, would love to do an Australian tour, but my lady gets travel sick going from here to asda. 3 miles away.

I use memory map on a nexus tablet on one of those screen clamp thingys, my eyes are not that good and I find driving round with reading glasses on the bridge of my nose a bit of a pita, will be upgrading to something bigger one day.

Another point, if you buy memory map don't get the HD version if you're putting it on a nexus, the HD version is 13GB leaving little room for owt else if you put the whole UK on like I did, you can chop bits from the whole uk map to make a smaller maps, but it'd be easier to get the standard version at 3GB and just have the whole country on IMO, that's what everyone else I've been out with seems to do.

Cheap £60 android tablet running AlpineQuest I find it runs better than MM on the tablet, but I use MM at home, and tranfer it all to alpinequest.

Currently I use a Tesco Hudl, Android, Memory Map in the Landy. Well, actually a version of MMTracker, which is ace 'cos it 'turns' the map so you can more easily see where you're going, ie you're always facing 'up' so turns are much easier to see, and it uses Memory Map files and maps ..

Laptop or Desktop at home for the planning and up/downloading using Memory Map.

I've not found any other software to come close in terms of ease of use, adaptability and which just works!

Do these androids/tablets with GPS work like a Tom Tom or garmin where it speaks to you at each turn etc, let's you find local amenities like banks, shops, car parking etc.
Wanting something that does everything.
I do have iPad Air that I wifi to phone for gps but I can't hear it and it really lags behind

The tablets can run sat-nav android apps just like yer phone, but I've not found one that speaks, or works that well either. You can run goggle maps to find addresses etc. but it needs a net connection. There's hardly any lag on the nexus GPS using MM.

Mite be best having a dedicated sat-nav if it's important to you.

What ratio maps do people use? Just wondering which ones to buy...

hardware
scrap laptop with gps dongle and external screen
iphone

software
memory map v5 with all 50k 25k and overhead sreen now in middle of dash
IMG_4530 by Ste_Nova, on Flickr
outside maps for ios
Untitled by Ste_Nova, on Flickr

b20wnx said:

Do these androids/tablets with GPS work like a Tom Tom or garmin where it speaks to you at each turn etc, let's you find local amenities like banks, shops, car parking etc.
Wanting something that does everything.
I do have iPad Air that I wifi to phone for gps but I can't hear it and it really lags behind

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yes, google maps works, but needs a net connection, I use Navfree, not been let down by it so far, usuaes normal adress/postcode/POI search but you can also use the google maps search from it as well if you have a net connection, all the maps are downloaded so you can use it completly offline like a normal satnav.
It also has normal voices or downloadable ones (if thats you bag) as well as other pay for upgrades such as traffic cameras, traffic alerts etc
After trying most of the free offline satnav options there are, I use the normal free options on navfree and found it to be excellent.

Any unit that uses an external gps is going to be laggy but internal should be fine, my cheepo chinese tablet works just fine.

If people wanted to know, bing maps has OS survey. Have found it pretty useful in the past, though you obv need internet.

I bought a cheapish 8" Lenovo tablet with my clubcard points last week. My plan is to get some kind of tablet desk mount and clip it to the front of the shelf inside.

For real voice sat nav I'm using waze
https://www.waze.com

I think rather than getting another tablet with gps built in I will just get another tom tom, for the green lanes I don't think I would ever lead anyway so no need for special maps that give instant location etc so the iPad with wifi from phone will be sufficient but thanks to all posters for their I put. Now which sat nav to buy...............

Nexus tablet has just come down in price to £79.99 inc delivery link for anyone interested.

Here its a 7" android tablet running MMTracker in the rough stuff, and Waze for the usual a-b mundane. Waze is immeasurably better with a net connection, so my phone acts a hotspot for it. Both apps run just fine on the phone alone where I can get away with a smaller screen.

Pumpy said:

Nexus tablet has just come down in price to £79.99 inc delivery link for anyone interested.

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That's a bargain! I couldn't afford a Nexus, tried a womans from school and it was ace!!

I got the hudl in the end for quite a bit less, mind, with tesco discounts etc.