offline routing works great!!!
I was out of town today so I took the chance to test the off-line (no Wi-Fi, no Internet) navigation on thte Playbok with the OSMand. It works great. It uses the map stored in the Playbook and calculate a routing all by itself. All the Playbook needed is the GPS.
GPS is crucial. We had thunderstorm today so sky was dark and cloudy. The GPS was lost and the program has a bit of hard time. There was a compass option. I then turned it on. Still not sure if that makes things better or the sun just came out. Have to test some more.
There is a speeding warning feature. When doing over 9 km/hr over 100 km/hr limit, a red circle with the speed limit shows on the screen to remind the driver that he is over the speed limit.
There is also a lane changing warning. Approaching a highway exit, the two left lanes are in yellow, the right lane is clear. Yellow means 'warning' should not be on these lanes, start switching. A little closer, the yellow turns in to red. Now you have to change lane quick.
To assist the GPS acquisition, I will keep my moon roof open. I find that helps.
I am very happy with the OSMand. There are a lot of switches and knobs. So take you time to learn and explore. Have fun.
New Osmand- GPS- Navigation
Originally Posted by
beavertail2
BTW: Have you tried the native Bing Map. For map and direction, it works well but not as good as the OSMand.
I think the OSMand is the king navigation app. That is all I need.
There are 20 ios navigation apps? How many do you use?
Personally, I just need one good one. Quantity of navigation apps is immaterial. A lot of them are probably incomplete. Nothing competes with Google, until OSMand. :D:D:D
Do you know how to get new maps?
It doesnt recognize we're i live... In the app, my house is in the middle of nowhere... I would like to fix that and get this cool app at its full power...
Sent from a old but beautiful BB 8520 or a new and shinny PB 2.0