maps

[Matt2matt2002]

Anyone used All-in-One Offlinemaps+ app?

I have no experience of this kind of map so would appreciate comments on the pros and cons.

I would use it on my nexus 4 phone and nexus 7 tablet

Matt

[il padrone]

Not that one, but I have Mapswithme Pro - also an off-line map. It was very handy when touring in Italy last year, and useful back here in Oz as well. Very accurate, easily zoomable, great tourist facilities and general services shown on the maps.




Can't really think of any cons. I guess the maps take up a fair bit of storage space, but the maps are downloaded for free, you just pay about $US4.99 for the app. To save space, delete any maps when no longer needed.

[phopwood]

I use CycleStreets UK it available on google play and you can even down load the whole of the UK to your device.  If you download the map pack it take up space.  It will even make an attempt at plotting a route and guiding you between A & B just like a satnav, you need an internet connection for the software to calculate a route.
I have also played with ViewRanger which will use the same maps as CycleStreets, and you can also buy sets or square of OS maps which make it great, but it does not calculate routes for you.  One other clever thing that ViewRanger does it will transmit your position to an other of you want to share your location.

I use it on my Nexus4.

All the best.

Peter

[mickeg]

MapsWithMe Lite (free).  I paid the extra $5 USD for the pro version but my phone did not have the ability to deliver all the benefits so on other devices I went for the free version instead of paid version.

In USA I also use Russian Military maps paid version ($11 USD) with cycling layer turned on, that gives me cycling routes and paths, but this one is much more memory intensive.  The paid version allows me to load a lot more info into memory for later use.

Both of these work off line, can load the maps with wifi.  I do not have a SIM card in my smartphone, without a data plan I need the off line capability.

[Matt2matt2002]

Many thanks chaps.
il padrone, I downloaded the app for Maps with me. But just the free version.
Looks good but what extras do I get for the pro version? I can't make it out from the blurb.
What will I be able to do that I can't do with by he basic version?
Matt

[Slammin Sammy]

I've been trialling Galileo and Mapswithme. I like the former's interface and extra features (including GPS tracking), but Mapswithme seems to load quicker. I have also purchased some online apps to use in built up areas.

I haven't comprehensively tested each one, but at less than ten bucks each, why wouldn't you load up several to try?

I use a 64Gb iPad Mini, which appears to have a bottomless memory store. I have 12Gb of music, dozens of books, magazines, daily newspaper and maps, and it doesn't seem to ever get more than half-full. (I expect that would change if I loaded it up with videos.) It fits beautifully in the Ortleib map case on the HB bag, but like all of these devices, is very hard to read in bright sun, and impossible with my polarized sunnies, so I usually find some shade, stop and take a fix on my position.

[il padrone]

Many thanks chaps.
il padrone, I downloaded the app for Maps with me. But just the free version.
Looks good but what extras do I get for the pro version? I can't make it out from the blurb.
What will I be able to do that I can't do with by he basic version?
Matt

Yes, I had this discussion with a friend just yesterday. I know that something about the access to maps made me get the Pro version, but I can't for the life of me remember exactly what it was. It was over a year ago now that I bought it. Anyway the price was low enough that I didn't mind.

[mickeg]

MapsWithMe free version, north is always up.  I think the pro version allows you to search and I think you can set the map to up being the direction of travel.  My phone however did not show the direction of travel as up, that was why I paid the $5 for it.  But, my phone does not have a compass sensor, that might be necessary for that.  Their website should explain difference.

[il padrone]

I have been to their website - http://mapswith.me/en/home

But every time I do it just loads a header with their icon and this flips to a "Home" link, but nothing comes up of their actual website content. Very strange  

This is with Internet Explorer. Something is not happening with that web-site ??

[Andre Jute]

For those who wear a heart rate monitor:

My riding setup is probably weird by the practice of the rest of you. I control my effort and thus my speed by my respiration rate, not by cadence or anything else. So I wear a heart rate belt all the time. The latest is a Bluetooth low energy wireless sender belt called the Polar H7 (fabulous -- the reviewers who didn't like it either got a dud or didn't RTFM), which works with the iPhone 4S and 5, and possibly some Android devices too. You can get all kinds of free and paid software to work with it. Many of these pieces of software link up to the GPS and/or to Google Maps with or without the GPS enabled. In fact you don't need to wear the belt to see the map (well, as well as you see it in sunshine on the phone screen -- the visibility in any kind of bright light is the most disappointing feature of the iPhone). The software I use is Polar's own Polar Beat. It doesn't appear to have any of the map features already discussed above, it just shows you a map of your surroundings, without finding a path through it for you. Additional, paid software from Polar offers more exercise analysis features and social linking, but doesn't appear to offer more in the line of maps. A feature on the free version that I do use is the facility to show you where you've been, and to count layers of circuits if, for instance, you're riding intervals on a short course, as I sometimes do.

Topeak also has a Bluetooth 4.000 sensor and software, which is a bit more attractive, but the Toepeak software doesn't work with the Polar sensor.

The Polar H7 sender and belt was about 63 Euro landed here, the software was free, the phone I already owned, so not a cheap setup, but it gives you HRM. GPS, a relatively accurate but very basic bike computer, plus basic exercise analysis tools. The belt works better than the Sigma I had before that served for years (the Sigma kit including the belt, a well-styled watch and a superior bike mounting, cost then and still costs about 40 euro, and gives you far more detailed analysis tools...)

[StuntPilot]

I downloaded Mapswithme and it looks good (the Lite version).

Before purchasing the full version I discovered an even better on with cycle related information layers. Its called Pocket Earth and seems very good. I bought the full version straight away. Impressed! I think it is better than Mapswithme.

The Lite version gives you Ireland only but lets you see the map detail and settings possible.

http://www.geomagik.com/en/pocketearth.html

Matt, just realised you are not an iPhone user, sorry! It looks like an iPhone only app.

[Matt2matt2002]

Thanks stuntpilot.
I have the nexus 4 & 7.
Google. Quite impressed with them but never been a big iPhone user so cannot compare the 2.

I think I will upgrade my map with you and report back.

Can you help with the question I posted on the my ride topic?
I am unable to tag a picture from google+ and enter it here.

Thanks

Matt

[mickeg]

I should have suggested this earlier but did not think of it.  I configure my phone to store maps and as much of the app data on the external Micro SD memory card that I plugged into it.  Some phones and tablets have very little memory from the manufacturer, but many of those devices allow you to plug in a Micro SD card for more memory.  I bought a 16 GB Micro SD card, that is more memory than I think I could ever use.  I put all my app data, photos, maps, etc., on that card.