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Offline Turn-By-Turn Gps app?

Mike13579

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Hello, I'm currently using the HTC Aria on AT&T 200mb/month plan. I normally use a good chunk of that a month already. I was wondering if there is an app that allows me to download maps that can be used offline and has gps turn by turn navigation on the downloaded maps. So essentually I'm looking for a navigation app which does not use data.

Thanks,
Michael M.
 
You can indeed use CoPilot.. you can also try Navigon & iGo MyWay as well. All of these use no data. You can download weather and traffic updates with CoPilot but only if you want... it is not a requirement in order to use the maps. I live in Germany and find all of these apps to be useful since I travel alot. I tried Google Nav on saturday at the Oktoberfest and it failed.. miserably! Pay a little for these top notch GPS apps and save your data for looking at YouTube videos :)

note: If you desire Sygic or Ndrive then may the force be with you.. you will need it :eek:
 
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So I'm guessing the GPS on my HTC Desire isn't the aGPS right? Hmm...I never knew this


Now you know.. and knowing is half the battle! Just had to say that. Use one of the 3 previous apps I mentioned and you'll be navigating around without sucking up all of your precious data. Believe me, I live an hour from Czech and the last thing I need is a 50
 
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Unless I'm missing something, that's what he said (see what you quoted)...

Or are you asking about triangulation? Triangulation is not GPS. GPS, by definition, uses the GPS satellites to determine location.

So essentually I'm looking for a navigation app which does not use data.
There are some options out there that involve downloading a precaching maps. IMO that's a PITA and I'd suggest an app that comes with locally stored maps like CoPilot which has already been suggested.

Wait...doesn't GPS use data then? How does that work if you have downloaded offline maps?
I don't understand your second question. Part of the point of having offline maps is so that you can use your GPS app without relying on a data connection.

So I'm guessing the GPS on my HTC Desire isn't the aGPS right? Hmm...I never knew this
Looking at the specs on the HTC site doesn't seem to indicate whether it does or not.
http://www.htc.com/www/product/desire/specification.html

The Wikipedia page claims it does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire
 
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I may be wrong, but doesn't aGPS use your phones mobile signal to help GPS find where you are, quicker?

My understanding is that aGPS sends the closest cell tower location to a server and receives back data on where the satellites should be at the current time. This allows the GPS chip to get a lock faster, because it's not starting from scratch. On my trip to DC two weeks ago, two of the guys I was with had standalone GPS units. Their units took several minutes to get a location lock, where my phone took maybe 30 seconds at the most.
 
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