Phone GPS to replace Garmin Nuvi

[BLJ]

I know. Welcome to the 21st century. Any good apps for an iPhone 11? I had great luck with the Nuvi. Anything comparable for the iPhone? I’ve got OnX for the woods, I need something for road travel. Thanks.

 

[DapperDan]

I know. Welcome to the 21st century. Any good apps for an iPhone 11? I had great luck with the Nuvi. Anything comparable for the iPhone? I’ve got OnX for the woods, I need something for road travel. Thanks.

Google maps works great for road travel unless you’re trying to stay away from Google.


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[Smokeslider]

Regarding google maps, you can download maps of an area you are interested in for off-line use in case you lose cell service.

Waze is another road map product worth looking into. I prefer google maps on my iphone.

 

[Jethro]

I just use Apple Maps that comes with the iPhone for driving navigation.

iExit is a handy app to have for highway trips. We use that for planning fuel stops when heading cross country

 

[bowhuntZ71]

Waze is nice let’s you know where others have marked debris cops etc


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[BLJ]

I looked through the apple maps last night. I aould say that is going to work for me.

I'm also going to look into waze and iexit today. Thanks.

 

[BLJ]

Any issues with imaps when out of cell service?

 

[knale87]

I use Waze everyday. I specifically like using it for my longer commute to work. Works pretty good with updating routes for traffic, accidents, road closures, etc.

Just recently used googles maps in Idaho though and it seemed that since we had it going while we had service, it continued to work once we lost service.

 

[BLJ]

Continuing after losing service seems to be the norm. Gaining service when out of service seems to be the issue. Are there ways of boosting the GPS of a phone?

 

[sodaksooner]

Continuing after losing service seems to be the norm. Gaining service when out of service seems to be the issue. Are there ways of boosting the GPS of a phone?

It's not the GPS portion. All the maps, etc, still have to be loaded via network or cell service. that is why you download them if you think you will be out of cell service. Not the same software, but I downloaded the entire GMU we hunted in on OnX this year. GPS piece still worked fine. In most areas we still had cell service, but some we didn't. My brother didn't download the maps and his did not work.

 

[BLJ]

Yes. I stand corrected. The icon on my OnX is there when I log on and the maps are not, in certain situations. Same situation for my phone. Makes sense now. Thanks.

 

[Nosferatu]

I really with Garmin would sell their maps for use on phones.

TomTom has android/iphone apps. I've never tried it tough.

https://wego.here.com seems to be a decent alternative. It allows you to download maps.

 

[Crotalus]

The two biggest benefits of my Nuvi were the ability to navigate to coordinates and operate outside cell service. I use Apple Maps almost exclusively now but keep the Garmin in a storage bin just in case, it has lifetime map upgrades so I can’t see any reason to get rid of it.

in the land of first world problems I like that Apple Maps pauses my podcast to give directions then resumes it