Offline Road GPS for Android

[Rhinoman]

mmtracker is way better but you can't really get it any more

That's because they weren't licensing the OS maps and got shut down.

[twiss]

Yes I know that, otherwise I wouldn't have spent days trying to find the APK for it

Completely wouldn't object to paying for the maps if they were the same price as the paper alternative
They should be less as they don't even have to print the sodding things!

[Rhinoman]

The paper maps are £8 each and there are dozens of them. MM comes with a national road map (I forget the scale) and for the 1:25000 scale Explorer maps needed for viewing byways I use the MM digital map shop and just download only the areas that I need, not the whole map. 1500km/sq costs £25 which isn't that bad.

[twiss]

Paper maps are worth the money as you actually have something in your hand... apart from anything paper will end up getting wet and destroyed in my SJ

Some of the paper maps are as cheap as a fiver anyway...

Thing is some of the OS paper maps cover 1,500km2 for £8...which is £5.33/1000km2
Much better than Memory map's £16/1000km2

I know these figures won't be strictly correct as the paper maps cover areas of sea, etc. but for the entire country is

OS -£250
Memory map - £3,900

The official memory map software isn't really THAT good, and as harsh as OS licensing may be I refuse to believe that it can cost them nearly 4 grand to sell a map of the country.

I wouldn't mind if OS did a decent app with offline map storage... for that price of their paper maps I would be all over it...

and the national road map is pretty useless...
when you are in the UK you might as well just use google maps!

[Rhinoman]

Thing is some of the OS paper maps cover 1,500km2 for £8...which is £5.33/1000km2
Much better than Memory map's £16/1000km2

But you usually only need a very small part of the area covered by the paper map. The national map shows you where you are in the country and then you just switch to the larger scale maps when you hit the lanes.

The complete OS Explorer GB maps from MM are £300 for an upgrade, £360 outright.

http://shop.memory-map.co.uk/acatalog/m ... urvey.html

[Rhinoman]

Memory Map have a sale on now:

http://shop.memory-map.co.uk/acatalog/i ... GB_14.html