Originally Posted by Yarrenbool

Checking the AppsStore it looked to me that TomTom was only available for the iPhone and NOT the iPad. Am I wrong?
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Sorry yes. I did say "like TomTom" because I thought that would be the one most people were more likely to know about. I'm sure TomTom will eventually have an iPad optimised app.
I have the Navfree Australia map on my iPad and it does seem to work fairly well. I had it going in the car the other day while I was a passenger and I made sure that both the wifi and 3G were turned off. It told me the correct position and speed on the road.
I haven't tried setting a route with it.
One of the reasons I got the iPad was to see if I could use it as an on motorcycle GPS by putting it in the map pocket of my tank bag. I think the Navfree may well do that function.

I've been using Navfree to actually get to a store. I kind of knew where the store was, so I was just testing whether or not the app is working well.
In my opinion I found it ok. It's what you'd expect from navigational software.
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but well, there are other apps for music and such.
I'm currently downloading the US maps for my vacation.

Navigation worked without 3G (I actually don't have a sim-card inserted as I use a mobile hotspot) and without wifi. I just needed the internet to get the route calculated.

All good reports guys, thanks. I will be in London by next Friday morning. In the meantime I have downloaded navfree and in a few minutes I will try finding destinations (from here in the US). I don't really want to wait until I get to the UK before I find locations. I won't need the directions yet, just want to save the addresses. I don't want to be forced to find a hotspot or draw data from the Net as soon as I get there.

And while navfree couldn't find my hotels (weird), it was able to make favorites of all the post codes so I'm all set. Thanks again guys.

Appreciate the post. Thanks...

TomTom will work on the iPad in 2x or 1x mode. Not pretty but I does. Navagon has both iPhone and iPad versions, last time I looked it was one price gets it on both. Both have many different versions of maps and prices for use across the pond.

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How can you change starting point in navfree. Thank you.

Originally Posted by Happy1137

How can you change starting point in navfree. Thank you.

In the bottom right hand corner there is a little box with an arrow (took me a while to find it). Click that and it will open the options to change starting point etc

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Hey guys, I want to expand my past thread... (and I think I have pretty much forgotten EVERYTHING!). But this trip we are flying to Venice, then cruising to the Greek isles, then to Turkey and then Croatia (We are havin' fun NOW!!)

So what is the best GPS client for these places without changing apps between countries, and will I need different sim cards for each? (I'm so confused... Do you guys remember Vinny Barbarino?)

Originally Posted by slothead

Hey guys, I want to expand my past thread... (and I think I have pretty much forgotten EVERYTHING!). But this trip we are flying to Venice, then cruising to the Greek isles, then to Turkey and then Croatia (We are havin' fun NOW!!)

So what is the best GPS client for these places without changing apps between countries, and will I need different sim cards for each? (I'm so confused... Do you guys remember Vinny Barbarino?)

No wifi or cellular signal is needed for GPS to work. GPS satellite signals are received directly by your iPad or iPhone. What you do need,in the absence of cellular signals or wifi is a GPS app which has maps downloaded to your device,for offline use.
You do,of course,need a wifi+ 3G/4G iPad or iPhone as the GPS circuitry is shared by the cellular systems.