Tablet navigation

See my recent post # 98820 for mounting suggestions.

I bought an Apple iPad as I am familiar with them as the hot chick who lives with me - a.k.a. wife - has an iPad. Looked at a mate's Samsung Galaxy style tablet but decided to stick with the familiar.

No probs except the quirky bits ya have to buy to get it compatible with other stuff.

e.g. yesterday had to buy a $ 40 ciggy lighter style power charger as just plugging the cable into the vehicles USB port won't charge iPad.

I have Memory Maps loaded on my iPad and iPhone with complete 4WD maps. Works a treat. It is a bit tricky downloading and syncing the maps thru iTunes - in fact it's a pain in the a... and of course there's always someone who will say that's rubbish, Apple products are rubbish etc etc.

(after 20 years Manager of support services for over 40,000 users in an Australian education facility - I couldn't see the back of a PC, MS and Enterprise etc etc quick enough so made the switch to iEverything)

I love the maps and the iPad screen is great. I don't mind that I have to plot the course with way points. Whatever works for you is great.

At some stage I will download the relevant street directories as well for NSW. (But since I didn't rush in to the recent (down) upgrades I'm happy with Google maps for that stuff.

Recently in Canada - I thought I'd try out the Memory Maps app as I had nothing else to do on a 1500km drive and it was my turn to rest - and was astounded to find that it picked me up and gave me the maps of the regions in the US and Canada where we were - bonus.

Cheers

Hi Rare,

I have a Samsung Tablet with mount.

Have Oziexplorer loaded. I can route plan, navigate - hasn't been tested in full anger yet.



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Alan

Gidday

Following this with interest as I bought an ipad recently, though I am not sure its size doesn't rule it out for in car nav.

Does anybody out there have any views on the Mud Map app for ipad? Same price as Hema, uses Westprint maps among others.

cheers

Rocco

One thing to remember if you go the iPad route is that you need the WiFi + Cellular version to get the built-in GPS Chip.

I too am thinking the tablet option, and now with the release of the ipad mini i think im sold. It has a 7.9 inch screen and is purpose built as a touch screen. You can buy the 16GB wifi for $360 - has up to 10hours battery life - and if your running an iPhone you can use the hotspot feature as your mobile internet connection for when your out exploring. Load it up with the TomTom app, HEMA maps app, Mud Map 4x4 Maps (VMS) app & Camp Australia Wide app and you have the ultimate go anywhere SATNAV...

Well thats my thoughts anyways

PS - on a slightly different note I downloaded the Wikicamps app last night. It is a very very good app. in this stage of it's development for showing campgrounds/stops/places of interest etc.....

We have the Camps 6 book and now my thinking is when we have data connections we will use this app when we travel and when we don't we'll go back to the book version. (it will only work to it's full extent if you have a data connection - it's not a GPS)

It only costs $2.99 and I thought that was great value for what you get. (Even a satellite finder) I'm looking forward to posting some updates to it - but it 'seems' fairly comprehensive already throughout Australia.

and no - I don't work for them.....

Cheers