Looking at Google Timeline last night that operstes with G Maps. I showed all my MH trips in great detail from visits to stops with dates and exact times for the last 8 years including our 3 month tour of Marocco 7 years ago. and my trip to Cardiff last week. Spooky, I know you can turn it off but with my memory I think I might leave it on:laugh::laugh::laugh:
When I read things like that I come to believe how out of touch with our younger generation we are going to be in the future. Imagine having the grandchildren over for tea and asking them about their holidays and being shown Google maps rather than their version of what they saw and did? While I, sort of, dread that it might be better than the shrug we used to get from teenage daughter ha ha!
Gosh can you remember those tedious slide shows of foreign holidays from (usually) uncles when you were a kid. I can see it now the light beam cutting through the cigarette smoke!
Yes and all those 'Lemmings' who rushed out and bought rotating picture viewers positioned beside the TV constantly scrolling through family and holiday snaps. Yuck.!!! Only took a year or so for them to show up at boot sales for €2.
Can't read the article on my phone as it just got too cluttered but I've been trying for a few weeks now to get Google maps to work offline as a sat nav for the bike with headphones when there is no mobile connection. I even downloaded the map but it still doesn't work. Still a very useful tool as long as you have a connection which sadly for at least 50% of this trip over nearly four months now we haven't.
As a sat nav or just browsing the map? As you know from the Wildies I couldn't get it to work as it keeps saying can't find a network connection when your moving and there is no signal.
Not had any problems mate, I simply go into maps, click my initial top right, then go down to offline maps, select your own map, select the area you need, drag it to the size of the area, click download, once it's downloaded I turn off Wi~Fi and Data, and then use it as normal by entering a destination, click start and Bobs you mums bruvver innit no need for a network so it doesn't ask for one.
You have not had any problems because you have not tried to use it in anger as a sat nav on motorcycle. I did exactly what you said. In fact I believe it was me that discovered how to do that on the wildies. Except it dont work. Maybe its the instructions that are the problem and the maps work offline but not as a sat nav. One things for sure when I get home Im cracking this one way or another so I have a working sat nav transferable to any bike that works with headphones. Not sure Google maps will be the answer though.
Nothing wrong with my GPS, it works for other stuff fine and of course even with a mobile signal maps still uses GPS I believe. So just to confirm. You actually drove around using Google maps on your phone as a sat nav with no mobile signal whatsoever and it worked?
Hmm, Ray has a point, yes I will have had a mobile signal most of the time it being in a town.
anyhoo, good point so I looked it up and :-
Does Google Maps use GPS or cell towers?
Google Maps primarily uses a combination of GPS, Wi-Fi and cell towers to track your location. GPS: Using satellites, Google Maps knows location up to around 20 meters. ... Cell tower: Connection to a cellular network can be accurate up to a few thousand metres.
Sooooo next time I go out I will pull the SIM and re test it, or I might just boot up one of my old phones, install maps and download a map and see what happens.
Apologies Barry if I took you down a wrong path, t'was not intentional.
You didnt take me down a wrong path Kev. I told you it dont work, I know it dont work, so it doesnt work.
Maybe a paid SatNav app would if it purely relies on GPS and nothing else. I would just buy another dedicated sat nav if they still made them with a headphone socket because when the google maps works its perfect.
Just downloading it now onto me phone. Says it works without data but will it work without a mobile signal whatsoever? Ill give it a whirl later but chances are ill have a signal most of the time. I suppose a good test would be to put the phone in airplane mode but I think I read somewhere that earlier OS versions turn off GPS in Airplane mode.
It's a good app Barry, Zebedee put me onto it yonks ago, I'd not be without it as it just works, it also offers a different route to other apps too for some reason, we have found some great wild spots following it.
You might have cracked it Kev. Been testing it round the back roads around Ullswater and Patterdale. I even turned everything off and went to airplane mode and it still works!
Couple of things I've not figured out yet. It doesn't work (so far) in the background if you click out of it / switch off your screen which is a bit of a shame as it's zapping my battery and the voice is awful and unclear but I'm guessing that can be changed but excellent! Cheers. I told everyone you weren't a useless twunt!
I found this https://mapsme.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/208625745-Voice-instructions-settings but i dont think you can change the voice unless you can find an alternative language pack for the device for text to speech. Its ok. I can live with it but I miss Jane from my TomTom1. Saucy posh minx, just how I like them. :tongue:
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