MapFactor Navigator is a free turn-by-turn GPS navigation app for Android with postcodes and free GPS maps from OpenStreetMaps. These free maps and postcodes are installed on your device or SD card so you do not need an Internet connection when traveling. Free Maps are updated every month for FREE.
MapFactor also makes the popular NavigatorFREE GPS navigation software for PC, Pocket PC and WinCE, also with postcodes and free maps from OpenStreetMaps.
OpenStreetMaps are created and updated by the community at http://www.osm.org.
Optional TomTom GPS navigation maps and postcodes are also available.
If you wish to get help or provide feedback to our GPS navigation app, please email [email protected].
Key features of the Mapfactor GPS Navigation App:
Voice guidance
* intuitive voice navigation in different languages
* door to door route planning
* cross-border routing without the need to switch between countries or to a less detailed maps
* overview of the upcoming manoeuvre and distance shown on the screen
GPS satellite navigation
* 2D/3D mode allows realistic visual maps display
* day/night modes switch colour schemes for day or night time driving
* GPS maps rotate in driving direction, or north up
Searching
* find nearest points of interest
* postcodes
* full GB postcodes (1.8 million)
Speed cameras
* hear audible warnings as you approach speed cameras
Further features
* add your own favourite locations and routes
* routing modes for car, pedestrian, truck
* route avoidance - block off certain road from your route
----- OpenStreetMap: Available free GPS maps: -----
MANY European, and non-European Map's are available freely on this.
They have LARGE download sizes per one, so be patient - and initially ONLY download via WiFi, so as not to kill-off alllll your allocated Data Plan (unless of-course your on one of those unlimited Data Plan Tariffs?, then so be it?, lol). :-)
been using this forever, keep trying others but always come back to this.
safety cameras, speed limits and roads are updated regularly.
amour3k to shadey12
28 Feb 17#4
YEP!.
I tried this on more than 1 occasion in the past too .. before stupidly downloading toooooooo many Map's unnecessarily!, and effectively KILLED my Phone in so doing, as I allowed the majority of the Map's to go to internal memory, in the interim (with only a few of those Map's stored on the memory card itself!) of a more decently sizeable micro-sd card - which as you can well well imagine never happened (complacency and all?), hehehehe.
I just game up on it soon after that, lol.
I may do again now though ..... :-)
Mikeygolfgt
28 Feb 173#3
Google maps already does this.
amour3k to Mikeygolfgt
28 Feb 171#5
Yes and no, Google Maps TRADITIONALLY ONLY worked via both your GPS and Internet on your Device turned 'on' right?.
MapFactor GPS Navigation NEVER had that 'problem', because, after you've already previously downloaded alllllll your relevant Map's from previous, no Internet Data for your Device is needed anymore!.
It works purely off of GPS from that point on, and GPS alone ...
And that's been it's MO from day 1 .. Google Maps was never able to claim that?, was it ..... lol.
That's the main difference, if nothing else?. :-)
snappyfish to Mikeygolfgt
3 Mar 17#40
Google maps do cameras?
shadey12
28 Feb 17#6
i have this on a couple of 7 inch phablets (with no sim card inserted) from gearbest, less than £40 each, nice size sat nav when windscreen is miles away.
amour3k
28 Feb 17#7
I hear that!, hehehe.
I installed this to a particular 10 Inch Android Tablet I was having at the time, some years back also (via WiFi only, NOT Data SIM).
And worked perfectly well for that one also.
Though a 10 Inch Device as a Sat Nav was stretching it a wee bit?, hehehe (so needless to say, the Navigation software soon had to go ... )
But was fun (I guess) while it lasted, lol. :-)
shadey12
28 Feb 17#8
possibly OK for passengers on a minibus, trying to get that 'on a plane' feel to the journey.
amour3k
28 Feb 17#9
That's true too.
Though there's nothing stopping you (if needs be?) in using any Data Allowance you may currently have on a SIM within your Device, etc, to initially install, and/or update any/all Map's upon it from the off though?, so .....
The Tablet I formally used has it's own dedicated SIM slot too (with a data SIM within it at the time also), but took that out for the initial downloading etc, and simply used WiFi instead (as proved a wayyyyyy cheaper option at the time).
But like I said before, IF you have access to 1 of those Unlimited Data SIM Plan's and what have you's, then there's absolutely nothing stopping you capitalising on allllll your Data SIM Card has to offer also?, lol. :-)
AW0079
28 Feb 171#10
Here Maps.
amour3k to AW0079
28 Feb 17#13
I know that one also.
In it's first incarnation when it started ot, it was primarily known as Nokia Maps! (WITH a a yearly subscription/price tag attached to it too, etc?).
Those day's of it's fee aspect have changed! (that's true).
But I believe until more recently, you were STILL required to have a 'live' Internet Connection (in addition to an also active GPS) in order to use this yes? (I've had both 'versions' of HERE on my Phone too, eg. both paid, and free too).
Again (as that of 1 of my previous/above comments), MapFactor GPS Navigation NEVER had such 'issues'?.
It's been free from day 1.
And it works solely/only via GPS ALONE! (after the initial Map's have also been downloaded that is?, hehe). :-0
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FREE GPS navigation app
FREE offline GPS maps from OpenStreetMaps (incl. free maps update)
MapFactor Navigator is a free turn-by-turn GPS navigation app for Android with postcodes and free GPS maps from OpenStreetMaps. These free maps and postcodes are installed on your device or SD card so you do not need an Internet connection when traveling. Free Maps are updated every month for FREE.
MapFactor also makes the popular NavigatorFREE GPS navigation software for PC, Pocket PC and WinCE, also with postcodes and free maps from OpenStreetMaps.
OpenStreetMaps are created and updated by the community at http://www.osm.org.
Optional TomTom GPS navigation maps and postcodes are also available.
If you wish to get help or provide feedback to our GPS navigation app, please email [email protected].
Key features of the Mapfactor GPS Navigation App:
Voice guidance
* intuitive voice navigation in different languages
* door to door route planning
* cross-border routing without the need to switch between countries or to a less detailed maps
* overview of the upcoming manoeuvre and distance shown on the screen
GPS satellite navigation
* 2D/3D mode allows realistic visual maps display
* day/night modes switch colour schemes for day or night time driving
* GPS maps rotate in driving direction, or north up
Searching
* find nearest points of interest
* postcodes
* full GB postcodes (1.8 million)
Speed cameras
* hear audible warnings as you approach speed cameras
Further features
* add your own favourite locations and routes
* routing modes for car, pedestrian, truck
* route avoidance - block off certain road from your route
----- OpenStreetMap: Available free GPS maps: -----
MANY European, and non-European Map's are available freely on this.
They have LARGE download sizes per one, so be patient - and initially ONLY download via WiFi, so as not to kill-off alllll your allocated Data Plan (unless of-course your on one of those unlimited Data Plan Tariffs?, then so be it?, lol). :-)
Deal link again:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapfactor.navigator&hl=en_GB
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapfactor.navigator&hl=en_GB
safety cameras, speed limits and roads are updated regularly.
I tried this on more than 1 occasion in the past too .. before stupidly downloading toooooooo many Map's unnecessarily!, and effectively KILLED my Phone in so doing, as I allowed the majority of the Map's to go to internal memory, in the interim (with only a few of those Map's stored on the memory card itself!) of a more decently sizeable micro-sd card - which as you can well well imagine never happened (complacency and all?), hehehehe.
I just game up on it soon after that, lol.
I may do again now though ..... :-)
MapFactor GPS Navigation NEVER had that 'problem', because, after you've already previously downloaded alllllll your relevant Map's from previous, no Internet Data for your Device is needed anymore!.
It works purely off of GPS from that point on, and GPS alone ...
And that's been it's MO from day 1 .. Google Maps was never able to claim that?, was it ..... lol.
That's the main difference, if nothing else?. :-)
I installed this to a particular 10 Inch Android Tablet I was having at the time, some years back also (via WiFi only, NOT Data SIM).
And worked perfectly well for that one also.
Though a 10 Inch Device as a Sat Nav was stretching it a wee bit?, hehehe (so needless to say, the Navigation software soon had to go ... )
But was fun (I guess) while it lasted, lol. :-)
Though there's nothing stopping you (if needs be?) in using any Data Allowance you may currently have on a SIM within your Device, etc, to initially install, and/or update any/all Map's upon it from the off though?, so .....
The Tablet I formally used has it's own dedicated SIM slot too (with a data SIM within it at the time also), but took that out for the initial downloading etc, and simply used WiFi instead (as proved a wayyyyyy cheaper option at the time).
But like I said before, IF you have access to 1 of those Unlimited Data SIM Plan's and what have you's, then there's absolutely nothing stopping you capitalising on allllll your Data SIM Card has to offer also?, lol. :-)
In it's first incarnation when it started ot, it was primarily known as Nokia Maps! (WITH a a yearly subscription/price tag attached to it too, etc?).
Those day's of it's fee aspect have changed! (that's true).
But I believe until more recently, you were STILL required to have a 'live' Internet Connection (in addition to an also active GPS) in order to use this yes? (I've had both 'versions' of HERE on my Phone too, eg. both paid, and free too).
Again (as that of 1 of my previous/above comments), MapFactor GPS Navigation NEVER had such 'issues'?.
It's been free from day 1.
And it works solely/only via GPS ALONE! (after the initial Map's have also been downloaded that is?, hehe). :-0