route maps on your phone

[sunnybob]

Anyone have this function?

I've never bothered before but we are going to be visiting places that have no street names or direction signs, so i need a way of getting back to my hotel every night.

I have an LG smart phone. What do I need next?

 

[AndyT]

Google Maps is very good.

You could also use Bing Maps from Microsoft or what used to be the Nokia option, now branded as Here Maps.

 

[Gary]

Is navmii available on android?

I use it on an iPhone.

 

[Rorschach]

Is navmii available on android?

I use it on an iPhone.

Yep, it works well.

 

[sunnybob]

Youre all assuming I know much more than I do.
My phone is an emergency tool that gets used about 3 calls a month under normal usage.
I am truly madly deeply ignorant of any steps required to allow me to find my way home.

 

[lurker]

Large ball of string?

 

[ColeyS1]

Breadcrumbs

Coley

 

[MrTeroo]

First make sure that you have the Google Maps app on your phone. If not then download it from the Android Market place icon on your phone.

Then have a read of

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/ ... roid&hl=en

 

[sunnybob]

well I think I have it.

Had trouble getting my location to show untill I found out it doesnt work indoors. Soon as I stood outside I knew exactly where I was. Marvelous these map thingies.

Have to go somewhere tomorrow just to see if i can find my way back again.

 

[RogerS]

We'll send a search party out if you're not back by 10. :lol:

 

[sunnybob]

great thanks, but just remember I'm BST +2, wont you?

 

[custard]

I use the OS map function for country rambles, it's great.

But only because I rarely walk more than six or seven miles, any longer and the map function has run the phone's battery flat!

 

[sunnybob]

I noticed a warning about high battery usage. Presumable it doesnt use extra battery except when I'm actually using it?
i must remember to charge the phone more often. Its so rarely used it only gets connected about every 10 days or so.

 

[AndyT]

Just having 'location' turned on will use more battery - you are powering an extra pair of radios to communicate with the GPS satellites - so it's worth turning location off when you don't need it.

 

[sunnybob]

HAH! I spent two hours learning how to turn it on and now you want me to learn how to turn it off again.

To quote (roughly) Homer Simpson.. "every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain"

 

[Myfordman]

One big advantage of navmii over google maps is that it does need realtime data service on your phone as the whole map lives on the phone and you just need gps to find your way around.

 

[sunnybob]

sounds too complicated for my needs. Bear in mind I have managed all this time without one, and I live on a very small island. As long as its daylight I can navigate by the sun. But I will be driving in the dark in unfamiliar villages soon, so i want to be able to get back to the hotel.

 

[Eric The Viking]

Get a bit of help from a youngster: you can probably downoad the entire Google map of Cyprus, and store it on your phone, permanently. That way you don't need to use mobile data services when out and about - much cheaper and longer battery life. I do that when travelling, but usually to my tablet, because of the bigger screen. In 2013 we did about 2,800 miles that way in the USA, each night using hotel or restaurant free wifi to grab and store maps for the next day's travel.

You can get Google to offer you walking and vehicle routes, but in my experience it's not very good. It let me down in Reading recently, and the car's satnav did in central London too. None of them are (yet) as good as a good human brain equipped with common sense.

 

[sunnybob]

I'm a bit short on hi tech youngsters. My grandkids re only 6 and 4. But then again, all three of them have electronic tablets.....

But as I say, I only need it for a specific purpose of guiding me back to the hotel. Dont need a map as such, just directions while driving in the dark.

 

[AndyT]

If you just need to use it in the car, get a stick on holder (cheap on eBay etc) so the phone fits somewhere you can see it clearly. Also get a car charger (plug in to lighter socket) and an extra cable. No worries about battery life then.