Android mapping/satnav

I've had a Garmin for years now (about 10) and never had a problem with it, came with free lifetime map updates as well.

Lambert wrote: Is a Tom Tom or Garmin stand alone worth the effort and price compared with Google maps?

IMO no.

I’ve not really found anything to better Google Maps. Apple Maps is probably as good, albeit not an option for an Android user. And I do like that I can run Google Maps in satellite mode.

Google Maps isn’t perfect. But by and large any complaints I have are minor with it. What issues are you having making you want to look for other options?

OSMAnd might be a option. And if you are willing to update your maps manually then it is free of charge.

For hard core navigating off-road QuoVadis is a good option. You can create your own maps, arrange them, overlay them so that you can use various maps at the same time. It takes some time to learn and you would need a windows tablet.

+1 for Garmin - it knocks the crap out of my wife's TomTom so much so that she borrows my Garmin now

The Garmin model I have also has a built in camera, so thats only one device instead of two, cluttering up the windscreen

300bhpton wrote:

Lambert wrote: Is a Tom Tom or Garmin stand alone worth the effort and price compared with Google maps?

IMO no.

I’ve not really found anything to better Google Maps. Apple Maps is probably as good, albeit not an option for an Android user. And I do like that I can run Google Maps in satellite mode.

Google Maps isn’t perfect. But by and large any complaints I have are minor with it. What issues are you having making you want to look for other options?

It has a bit of a habit of trying to save time if it thinks that the motorway or main road is blocked by sending me down smaller roads and sometimes through housing estates often in areas I don't know especially well and because I have to believe it when it comes to potential road traffic issues I will usually follow it within reason and this is fine in Dreadnaught but on a potentially 12hour round trip to Wales in the bigger Grand Vitara with a trailer on I don't want to be having to potentially negotiate back roads anymore than I have to but equally I don't want to be having hours added on my journey by ignoring requests to leave the motorway to avoid hold ups. If there were like a truck setting for the directions that kept you on the biggest roads for the longest time that would be great but I can't find it in Google maps if it exists.

There are free Truck sat nav downloads for android in google play store on your phone. Happy hunting.