European maps - Google or CoPilot?

oli356

oli356

oli356

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Hi guys,

In need of some quick (within 24 hour) advice :p

I'll be driving from UK to Holland over the weekend and planned to use my phone as a Sat Nav. Recently i have been using CoPilot around the UK (14 day trial ends tomorrow), its worked great! But now I need to spend £14 to get it forever. I would also need to pay £23 for offline maps. I would assume that I can drive with "data off" and only with GPS on and this would work. This would cost £37, I'm happy to pay the £14 for the app and have UK maps but not sure about the £23 considering how little use the EU maps will have.

I was thinking about Google as its free, but it requires a data connection. Not sure how much data will cost when roaming between France and Holland as well as how much data would even be required.

Has anyone got any advice on this or any alternative solutions?

Cheers!
 
You could look at OpenStreetMap. OSMAnd is the name of the Android app for it (not sure if you're an iPhone or Android user).
It allows you to download some (up to 10 countries) maps to your SD card. The routing isn't brilliant, but it's better than nothing.
Could be worth a quick go! Perhaps use this for the long motorway cruises then switch to Google Maps if you're struggling near to your destination. That might strike the best balance between cost and actually getting to where you want to go.

You can then later decide whether or not to get the CoPilot upgrade :)

PS - check your phone's roaming details, sometimes there's a fairly cheap per-day roaming tariff available for data. It might be worth picking up a Pay as you go sim card on a different network to get the best data deals abroad (and to keep a cap on any potential spending - you, at most, stand to lose a £10 top-up!)
 
Thanks for the responses, ended up actually managing to borrow a TomTom last minute which worked like a beauty ( a few hiccups which just meant I had left the motorway and had to go around to re-join, but good as a whole).

Going to look at my options anyway for the future, I still wanted to purchase CoPilot and didn't realise the EU maps and the app was only £27, thought it would be maps + the £14 for the app.
 
if you can get tomotom on android is way to go. i know from experience that to use google maps you would have to use data. (quite expensive abroad)
 
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