LivinLOS
Senior Member
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2011
- Bikes
- Gas Gas 250 (Trials), YZ250 (enduro), DRZ440 (Supermoto) CBR900 Streetfighter (scary !!)
While on the Rd I think most of us use a dedicated GPS unit, but once you get to a city area, its another item to carry and I tend to rely on my Phone and google maps.
The problem with this is, once you hit a new country, if you have to use the data it costs a bomb to turn on roaming data, or the hassle of a local sim and data setup for what may be only a brief time. I tend to rely on hotel wifi when on short hops as I also am trying to ignore too much email comms when touring.. I want to get away from too much contact.
What I found on a recent run through Phnom Penh, was the app Maps (-) free version, and Maps (+) paid.
https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... y5tYXBzIl0.
https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... MubWFwcyJd
This app allows you to cache the map tiles, at varying levels of detail, to the phone SD card in advance, and then doesnt need a data connection while out and about. It supports google maps and openstreetmap also (superior in Cambo as it has the street numbers GMaps is missing). and can handle GPX files and the like too.
It doesnt do routing, but I find when I am riding about using a phone I tend to just pull from pocket, check, head to destination, recheck, etc.. I dont try to mount a phone for routing and if I desired that kind of use I would be using the garmin anyway.
Dead handy app.. You can download an entire country at low res so you have its main rds, and cities and downtown at higher res to have all the close up detail you need.
From now on anytime I am planning a city tour, especially in countries I wont have data, I will pre load that cities maps to my phone.
Only things I would like are 1) ability to waypoint current and potential locations easily and 2) possibly a tracklog function.
Dead handy app for Android phones.
The problem with this is, once you hit a new country, if you have to use the data it costs a bomb to turn on roaming data, or the hassle of a local sim and data setup for what may be only a brief time. I tend to rely on hotel wifi when on short hops as I also am trying to ignore too much email comms when touring.. I want to get away from too much contact.
What I found on a recent run through Phnom Penh, was the app Maps (-) free version, and Maps (+) paid.
https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... y5tYXBzIl0.
https://market.android.com/details?id=c ... MubWFwcyJd
This app allows you to cache the map tiles, at varying levels of detail, to the phone SD card in advance, and then doesnt need a data connection while out and about. It supports google maps and openstreetmap also (superior in Cambo as it has the street numbers GMaps is missing). and can handle GPX files and the like too.
It doesnt do routing, but I find when I am riding about using a phone I tend to just pull from pocket, check, head to destination, recheck, etc.. I dont try to mount a phone for routing and if I desired that kind of use I would be using the garmin anyway.
Dead handy app.. You can download an entire country at low res so you have its main rds, and cities and downtown at higher res to have all the close up detail you need.
From now on anytime I am planning a city tour, especially in countries I wont have data, I will pre load that cities maps to my phone.
Only things I would like are 1) ability to waypoint current and potential locations easily and 2) possibly a tracklog function.
Dead handy app for Android phones.
