Sat nav or maps on phones?

[Kim and Phil]

Hello all

Been having a lovely time in France and weather fab, however the Sat nav has literally just died. Not a catastrophe as quite capable of reading a map and have our mobiles for Google maps.
My question is should we replace Sat nav, if so which one is best? Obviously if using using phone there are data considerations (my network currently still within my allowance in France). We have a Tom Tom with free lifetime map updates (now dead) but I wasn’t that impressed; couldn’t define vehicle parameters so had to be careful of planned route, especially when recently leaving Rouen (thank goodness we’d seen that thread) and it has lead us to a couple of dirt tracks recently (even though no unpaved roads was clearly selected). Any recommendations gratefully received!

 

[Trevor Wbm]

And that is how you end up in housing estates or facing low bridges.

Not in my experience, but OK ..

 

[sonar]

I too use an iPad but mine is a refurbished iPad Mini which is mounted in a holder that fixes to the CD slot and I use Copilot for navigation on it.

I have been going through the posts on what sat nav for a while now.

I use an iPad Pro with a SIM card in it.
and now decided to use Co Pilot. Because I am able to set the height to avoid low bridges.
maps. And google maps as far as I can see do not have this facility.

if they do please let my know how to enter low bridge details.
not found it yet.

 

[claude et maude]

I have been going through the posts on what sat nav for a while now.

I use an iPad Pro with a SIM card in it.
and now decided to use Co Pilot. Because I am able to set the height to avoid low bridges.
maps. And google maps as far as I can see do not have this facility.

if they do please let my know how to enter low bridge details.
not found it yet.

I assume you know that you don’t need a SIM card for the GPS to work, you just need a SIM card slot.

 

[sonar]

I assume you know that you don’t need a SIM card for the GPS to work, you just need a SIM card slot.

Yes I was using the iPad for internet access and as traffic updates.

also a hotspot for the grandkids and their whatever they use.

instead of a mifi unit

the way I saw it is with two mobile phones both with data a mifi would not have been any use to us so stuck with the iPad .
still works a out to be three SIM cards either way.

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[Keep Right On]

Aguri - reassuringly expensive but well worth it in my opinion and has never let me down!

another vote for Aguri

 

[Reallyretired]

I use copilot together with a Chinese cheap one.I am never confident about the robustness of the Chinese cheap hardware, hence the backup.
Also sometimes use Waze or Google maps as the traffic stuff is great.

 

[63720]

Vote here for Maps.me, once downloaded it works offline.

 

[scotzsue]

would try the reset pin hole we needed to use a big safety pin as pen we had was too large for the hole, it came back on as it had been before it died.