Re: Magic Earth app

VanguardLH wrote on Tue, 6 Aug 2024 03:58:29 -0500 :

You better have a decent SD card on which to store all
the offline maps you want, and it take a long time if you download them
all.  I didn't download all their maps, just all USA which consumed
9.7GB of storage. 

A technical trick to download map data for one phone and bring it to
another phone without having to download it again is to format your
portable memory sd card with a name that you know which is easy to do.

I use, for example, 0000-0001, which I use for all my sd cards
(otherwise it's some unremememberable list of eight characters & numbers).

When I get a new phone, I just pop the old portable memory card into the
new phone and map apps work perfectly using the data from the old phone.

There is an option to download only via wifi, so
you don't consume your cellular data quota.  Here WeGo provides
turn-by-turn navigation even when offline.  Google Maps does not nor
does OSM.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_WeGo
 
I have hardly used OSMand or Here WeGo, so I cannot attest to whether or
not they provide interactive data, like traffic volume, reroutes, etc,
but I can't see how any offline map data could ever include that
present-time data, and definitely not without a current Internet
connection.

I don't think any app can provide traffic realtime without the net other
than FM radio apps, but you can get real-time traffic with the net without
using Google Maps - we have an entire thread on this topic in the past.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/g0c6q5n0/traffic02.jpg>
 <https://i.postimg.cc/kX88nK07/traffic03.jpg>