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Google map

Is there a way too download the whole google map?
I dont want to pay data connection for using GPS.
Thanks.

hi, it s second time i see that s kind of funny question.
google map is a online only tools.
the amount of data that google hosting is huge.
satellite photo of the world, tons of poi, ...
so terrabite of data.
it s so easy to understand that no phone could never, ever, host
google map.
have fun

An alternative then?
thanks

TomTom, Navigon, Route 66 etc...

iGO8 is also an alternative.. A little bit of tweaking but worth it.
Anyways, was Google maps preinstalled on your HDs? I didn't have it on mine from the box but the funny thing is that HD Tweak still allowed me to assign a shortcut for it (left or right softkey)

Try java MGMaps. I did not tried it on blackstone but it should work. It supports multiple map providers (google, yahoo, microsoft) and there was an external tool (i don't remember its name, never used it) for predownloading maps - it can work offline too.

dusanko said:
iGO8 is also an alternative.. A little bit of tweaking but worth it.
Anyways, was Google maps preinstalled on your HDs? I didn't have it on mine from the box but the funny thing is that HD Tweak still allowed me to assign a shortcut for it (left or right softkey)
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Actually upon for acquiring it, it was not installed. When I updated recently from their site it was included.

CorruptedSanity said:
An alternative then?
thanks
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Yes, there is Terracrosser : http://terracrosser.com/
It allows to perform exactly what you want to do. First, you use Mapper (included) to download maps on your PC. There they get packed so that you can copy them into the Terracrosser folder on your phone.
However, as Geistteufel already said, downloading such maps takes alot of space. Plus, you should not abuse with the downloads, that is downloading the whole world or a continent or a bigger country, as Google keeps a blacklist. You don't wanna become (black)listed, do you ? Actually, I don't know if that which you can do with the Mapper tool is even legal ...

You can use Google Navigator. When registered you can download a map area with a range of depths. Or simply browe the surface of the Earth and you'll get on you card a big file containing all that you have seen, like in desktop Google Earth.

Georgeous2008,why would I be blacklisted for download a lot?
Wowozanga, can I get a link? Is it free?

I tried the Terracrosser program and it looks hard to use as the gps keeps shifting left or right non stop.
I cant even open the Mapper app because it just gives a unexpected shutdown on the program.
I gave up with it.

How about gpsVP?
originally, it was for Garmin vector maps, but currently it also displays Google/Live/OpenMap map and satellite. Maps gan be cached by the XP version, and the cache folder synced to the handheld.

CorruptedSanity said:
Georgeous2008,why would I be blacklisted for download a lot?
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Refer to the Google Maps general conditions for further information.

Google Navigator
Google Navigator:
http://www.pdafun.net
Last version is 4.6.
For the convenience of space you may want to install on a SD card of at least 2 GB, formated with FAT32.
Best regards,
Wowozange

Ill give it a shot.
Thanks a lot.

GPS Tuner
CorruptedSanity said:
Ill give it a shot.
Thanks a lot.
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Hi there,
Try GPS Tuner, in their forum they have mentioned a tool with which you can download the google maps for any area at any depth. I am currently using it and also GPS Tuner is the best. (But the tool is downloading maps in JPG format so you will not be able to make searches for POI etc.

GPS Tuner
I have been using GPS Tuner for a long time, but you have to use other programs to download the tiles of image (Google Satellite Maps Downloader), or use big jpegs (captured in Google Maps on PC) already calibrated with the PC soft that come with GPS Tuner (Map Calibrator) that are working veeeeery sloooow. After a couple of images downloaded with Google Satellite Maps Downloader, Google will ban you IP address for 24 hours, and you will not get other images.
In Google Navigator everything you have downloaded remains in archive and can be used when offline, with roadmap, satelite view, depending which mode you were using when browsing the Earth surface and the level of zoom. This program is "trusted" by Google Maps and you can download a lot of images. If eventually you will get banned, you have a command to reactivate the path to Google Maps.
Now I'm just waiting for a "medicine " for the current version.
Best regards,
Wowozange

CorruptedSanity said:
Is there a way too download the whole google map?
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As already mentioned by someone else the mapping data that google hosts for us is so big that one can hardly image its size. Have a look here, the first link. I just hope that this very valuable service will remain available for free despite the global financial black hole .
Now to your particular need, the mobile version of Google earth has also a local cache (possibly configurable!?) so when you are online at a flat rate you can "pre"-visit the place you will later be going offline so as to download the mapping data on your device in advance.

I believe terracrosser is fantastic for that use, but dont work on blackstone...
Anyone can help about this?
10x

HD navigation

Hello can anyone help me find free navigation for my HD, i was trying to find on xda but i didint make it thx very much

google maps
thats free...please note not to ask for warez here
thank you

Yeah use google maps, has a position locator and directs you to where ever you need to go, can use post code and everything.. updated every day.
Perfect

Try warez , ofcourse not from this site

Hmm
Try Google Navigator. As I understand it you get basically Google Maps but with turn by turn instructions.
I think you know what I am going to suggest next....do a search on Google for it...lol
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MS Live Search (Free) has similar functionality to Google Maps and has better coverage for some countries

Whats the Best Navigation App from Market?

Just wondering what everyones opinion on navigation apps vs google navigation.
I was really hoping that Navigon would release a US version for Android. I had it on my iPhone and it worked great. I also had Navigon on my HD2 and it worked great also.
I still have Navigon WM with all the US Maps and have been playing with the Navigon 2.6.1.apk all afternoon moving all the maps and nfs files to my SD card to see if I could get the app to recognize the maps but it wouldnt do it. It would probably work If I new what file to edit to get the app to see the US maps.
If anyone has any ideas on how to make Android Navigon MobileNavigator work with US maps, Please share

Why not just use google map and its navigation. I've been using the google map and navi without any problem
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dmoses1969 said:
Just wondering what everyones opinion on navigation apps vs google navigation.
I was really hoping that Navigon would release a US version for Android. I had it on my iPhone and it worked great. I also had Navigon on my HD2 and it worked great also.
I still have Navigon WM with all the US Maps and have been playing with the Navigon 2.6.1.apk all afternoon moving all the maps and nfs files to my SD card to see if I could get the app to recognize the maps but it wouldnt do it. It would probably work If I new what file to edit to get the app to see the US maps.
If anyone has any ideas on how to make Android Navigon MobileNavigator work with US maps, Please share
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google maps is pretty awesome actually, have you tried that? coming from an iphone myself and using a variety of gps systems, google navigation is pretty nifty. the only thing it doesn't have i found useful is real-time traffic, but sprint navigation has that.

Waypoints
I would like a Navigation app which allows me to set waypoints on a long journey. Went looking for one last night, and did not find anything which filled the bill. Ended up with google maps on the laptop, which does allow you to set multiple destinations on a journey.
Sprint app seems to be the best of the ones I've tested, but their UI is worst.

Honestly i use google maps and thedefault sprint nav. They work on long trips just fine. I went from ny to atl with sprint nav and have no complaints..

After having the iPhone for 3 years and using Navigon for the last year or two I guess I just really got used to Navigons UI. And now that I think of it, its probably just all the eye candy that I am missing.
Also, I haven't really given google navigation much of a chance. It does'nt seem as easy as the advertising videos where they just select search say Navigate to where ever and google maps does the rest. Unless I am missing something and using it right.
There is a big difference between the iPhone and Android apps when it comes to the UI of the apps. I must say iPhone has a lot of awesome looking apps. Even the useless apps looked good.

re google maps
google maps is definitely by far the most robust navigation tool out there.
on the evo hold the search button then say "navigate to" then the name of your location an it would find it.
I am not sure if you are using the maps or the navigate app, They are 2 different apps, also for traffic and POI options press the layers tab, also if you are driving, you can press on the intersection you are on and turn it into full 360 street view mode while you drive this comes in really effective when you are downtown because you can see exactly what the intersection looks like

So, after playing with Google Navigation, I can see that it actually works very good. Didnt realize I had to push/hold search, say navigate to. But I did and it worked. That is Awesome!
Is there a way to add the layers to the map and save it that way or do you have to add layers every time you open the maps?

I've been pretty happy with the whole Google maps suite. I find destinations easily with the voice search, use Navigator for voice turn-by-turn directions, and My Tracks if I want to record where I've been - complete with way points and/or data points if I want to annotate with photos or just keep track of speed/distance/altitude for different legs. I can also use My Maps Editor to customize a personal map for directions to a family event and then upload it for all to use.
All of these apps are free in the Market.
But don't forget to look in the settings tab of Maps for some cool beta add-ons.

Google Navigation is one of the reasons I bought this phone. People with other operating systems (other than some nokias) have to pay decent money to get something this nice. Great program and service.

Doesn't google navigation's voice sound a little too.... text-to-speech like? I found Sprint Navigation's a bit more pleasing, and prefer that app overall to Google for some reason.
Either of them work better than my fiance's dedicated GPS unit

Google navigation is great in my opinion. If u need something else I'd recommend copilot live its in the market and is great because it doesnt need a 3g connection all the maps are downloaded to your sd card.

hydralisk said:
Doesn't google navigation's voice sound a little too.... text-to-speech like? I found Sprint Navigation's a bit more pleasing, and prefer that app overall to Google for some reason.
Either of them work better than my fiance's dedicated GPS unit
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Sprint Nav is much better than Google Nav, except it takes 20 minutes to start up and 5 minutes to search for an address (for me at least)

tried both sprint and google nav
ill stick with google nav !

shift_ said:
google maps is pretty awesome actually, have you tried that? coming from an iphone myself and using a variety of gps systems, google navigation is pretty nifty. the only thing it doesn't have i found useful is real-time traffic, but sprint navigation has that.
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Google nav sort of has realtime traffic... if you bring up the route info where it shows the map of the route, it will highlight areas of traffic w/ different colors. Then you can go to find alternate route, and chose one that's shorter in time. I find it very accurate and helpful, just not as automated as I'd like it.

Does google nav allow you to cache a route (or better yet... maps for a region) on the device... I live in the midwest and travel on back roads where 3G is spotty at best but more often then not, it's non-existent.
I'm currently using garmin XT on WM which I love but I'm not finding a lot of nav options for android with on device maps.
Sounds like copilot is about the only option if I need on device maps? Which may not be a bad way to go... google for general nav use and copilot for backwoods navigation. Copilot does seem to priced right...

[REQUEST] Offline GPS app

hi all!... i need this:
-a gps navigation app
-offline maps support (not cached maps)
-lebanon map included
-FULL (with the capital of "full" ) POI
so far i've tried navigon, locus (and locus pro) and a bunch of other apps that i can't remember... none of them have offline lebanon maps... locus has one... but with no POI...
help is much appreciated.
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Have you looked at copilot? It's not free but might work for you
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Easy
Flash a Sense UI ROM, it's built right in

copilot is good... but not free... i need something free... like a clone of GARMIN on WM
and the sense UI doesn't have lebanon map
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try sygic navigation, its the best...

Has anyone run sygic navigation successfully with miui roms? If so, what version and build of sygic navigation did you use?

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and a bunch of other apps that i can't remember...
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sygic is the app that i didn't remember... sorry :$
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An useful offline gps app, that's also free, tell me if you find one.
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kingston73 said:
Have you looked at copilot? It's not free but might work for you
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X2 on copilot works awesome, it was the only one that worked for me. you can get it free if you look hard enough. I couldn't find any decent free OR paid besides copilot

should i just be hopeless??
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try out Maverick, there is free version whit just a little restrictions compared to paid. on the settings you can select what maps you want to use, google, nokia ovi, wikimapia, open street maps, and plenty more choices.
theres is also a program for pc where you can select what map areas and zoomlevels you want to download, and then you can compile map cache from them and transfer it to phone, tough its loads of small files, and a pain in the... but you could get the maps of the area you are heading to phone from the pc. looks like caching of google maps is disabled because google requested that.
some links...
http://www.codesector.com/maverick.php - about the app
http://mobac.sourceforge.net/ - Mobile Atlas Creator, to create map files on pc for mobile use. also other supported android map apps listed here.
after looking trough those other apps, OruxMaps looks interesting, fully free.

Whippler said:
try out Maverick, there is free version whit just a little restrictions compared to paid. on the settings you can select what maps you want to use, google, nokia ovi, wikimapia, open street maps, and plenty more choices.
theres is also a program for pc where you can select what map areas and zoomlevels you want to download, and then you can compile map cache from them and transfer it to phone, tough its loads of small files, and a pain in the... but you could get the maps of the area you are heading to phone from the pc. looks like caching of google maps is disabled because google requested that.
some links...
http://www.codesector.com/maverick.php - about the app
http://mobac.sourceforge.net/ - Mobile Atlas Creator, to create map files on pc for mobile use. also other supported android map apps listed here.
after looking trough those other apps, OruxMaps looks interesting, fully free.
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thank you Whippler but the two suggestions of yours have no POI for lebanon... they're just a map...

I wanted a gps navigator to use offline, I downloaded Sygic gps navigator tried for 7 days and ended up buying it. It is the best gps navigator I have tested on my phone. It has a map downloader which downloads the full gps map for use offline. IF you have root,Formating data and reflashing rom reactivates trial, but this is to much work for using a gps.

Currently, I'm using RMAP (free, get on Market)
Then, use Mobile Atlas Creator to generate offline map: http://mobac.sourceforge.net/
Support run on Mac/Linux/Windows

thanks, i'll try this Mobile Atlas Creator.

Hi,
Maybe try Navdroid?
You can see what the map is like by going to openstreetmap.org
Des. . .

I'm using Sygic GPS navigation and I'm really satisfied.

Whippler said:
try out Maverick, there is free version whit just a little restrictions compared to paid. on the settings you can select what maps you want to use, google, nokia ovi, wikimapia, open street maps, and plenty more choices.
theres is also a program for pc where you can select what map areas and zoomlevels you want to download, and then you can compile map cache from them and transfer it to phone, tough its loads of small files, and a pain in the... but you could get the maps of the area you are heading to phone from the pc. looks like caching of google maps is disabled because google requested that.
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Since version 2.0 you can add a tile server url to maps you've downloaded with Mobile Atlas Creator, see the knowledge base on our site.
Also support for SQLite atlases (single file instead of thousands) is almost ready.
PS. I'm also using Sygic GPS for turn-by-turn navigation and it works good.

Maybe you wanna try Navigon. It isn't cheap, I know, but as far as I know the best Navi replacement. After you purchased, it'll download the maps over wifi, so no mobile data needed for it to work.
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Ok, i just had a solution that actually worked... I downloaded the winmo garmin map, and converted it to an android compatible version that actually works flawlessly...
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834814
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International travelling, storing maps offline.

Hi guys,
let me start of with saying i don't know where this thread belongs, since it's not sgn2 related, but more of a general android question.
Okay, my ' problem' : I'm going to be in south africa for a few weeks in december, i want to use my gps to know where i'm going, but i don't want all the roaming costs from loading the map itself. Is there any way to store a big part of the map or location offline on our device? Or is there an app that doesn't need roaming and already has the map itself?
Thanks in advance,
Kain

A few apps should have this feature but I don't have any name in mind...
However I know that Google Maps allow you to use maps offline: Google support

Google Maps allows it in a limited way
Google maps actually allow us to locally store an small area as offline, but its not gonna be sufficient to u, try to use some offline maps like Sygic or so,

Maybe u can try Mapswithme?
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klect said:
Okay, my ' problem' : I'm going to be in south africa for a few weeks in december, i want to use my gps to know where i'm going, but i don't want all the roaming costs from loading the map itself. Is there any way to store a big part of the map or location offline on our device? Or is there an app that doesn't need roaming and already has the map itself?
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I actually used Google Maps to track myself with GPS during my trip to South Africa. You need internet to do a search for a place or get directions (hotel/coffeeshop WiFi will do), but if you think you know where the place is on the map (the maps still include the labels) you can zoom in to view the label (in otherwords, you have to do a manual search for things without an internet connection)
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Offline maps are great for hikes (or safaris, in South Africa ) to help you know how far you are from a road or landmark. Use the 'distance ruler' function. From my experience, a surprising number of trails, world-wide, are well mapped-out.
I still do offline maps, today, because I didn't upgrade to the new Google Maps (the reviews were terrible), but you may have to search to find and download the old Google Maps.

Maps with me pro
I use it and recomend
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Thanks! ive tried google maps storage, works fine like described. Hopefully I can get some free wifi!
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Sygic with worldwide maps on the device is an option too.

I most be missing something but there are all kinds of offline map programs. Sygic, Copilot (there is a free version), Navigon, Maverick is more offroad but can be used to find your way around. Locus is another it also has a free version.There are dozens more. Look on Play store.

I use navfree. Careful with Google maps. I believe it deletes map data after two weeks. Thought I read that somewhere.
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+1 for Navfree. Don't forget that you need to download your maps via the app before you leave.
No harm in having a few free nav apps at your disposal. They'll all have their own strengths so perhaps you might find yourself using more than one. So maybe download a handful of the free ones.
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