Google maps and roaming abroad

Scam · 4 Jul 2011 at 06:05

I'm off to Italy soon and am tempted by paying £5 to t-mobile to give me 20mb of data for 7 days. I think I'd mainly use it for Google maps, plus the odd email and fb. I can judge how much data I'd use for email etc.. but will google maps just eat that up in no time?

*Chris · 4 Jul 2011 at 06:36

Probably yeh.

kitch9 · 4 Jul 2011 at 07:14

Download 3g watchdog to your phone and see how much you use to give you an idea.

theboyrob · 4 Jul 2011 at 07:36

i thought the later versions of maps allowed you to cache data, as in your could set the cache high, load all the data for the area your looking at and then it would be already available?

Glaucus · 4 Jul 2011 at 07:58

Yep, I used a couple of mb in spain for one journey when we got lost. Got raped for the bill.

Robbo · 4 Jul 2011 at 08:22

O2 charge £6 for 1MB, absolute madness. How can that even be considered remotely fair?

Cosimo · 4 Jul 2011 at 08:51

Google maps do cache downloaded data so you could try downloading some before you go or at a hotspot when you are there. Just by a roadmap.

Dangerous · 4 Jul 2011 at 10:11

In 2 weeks I used about 200MB (medium use) so for a week buy the 50B

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-broadband/euro-broadband-booster/

englishpremier · 4 Jul 2011 at 10:26

Have fun downloading maps for the whole country (if you're moving around lots) before you go. That should be fun.

I'd say pay the £20 or whatever it is and buy Sygic or Copilot of something else that doesn't require a data connection

EDIT: In fact it's less than £20, it's €20 - http://www.sygic.com/en/android:buy-now

div0 · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:04

Mapdroyd - download a selection of offline maps, using Wifi, before you go.