Road maps for Ipad
Heading into France/Germany for holiday and although we have satnav does anyone have a recommendation for decent road maps that can be downloaded to Ipad and used offline ? Or indeed ones to avoid ?
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Might depend on why you want an electronic map. We use the ACSI Camping Card app (also useful for identifying low season bargains) and the maps, complete with campsite details, by country can be downloaded to iPad. I say ' why do you want to use them' because I have found them pretty good for the detailed perspective of exactly where the campsite is, when you are in the vicinity. But maybe not so workable for planning entire route. But if, like us, you use a general sat nav for route planning and navigation, this ACSi app might be good. The offline nature of it is ideal for sitting with beer in sunshine, and thinking where next.
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At the risk of being cast out as a Luddite why not a paper road atlas. (Michelin do a good range to cover the countries you are visiting) Your navigator can follow the route as you go with it just sitting on their lap? Also has the advantage that if you all of a sudden have to deviate off your chosen route it's quite easy to see the alternatives. I would find trying to follow a map on an iPad far too small to see the detail.
David
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"The offline nature of it is ideal for sitting with beer in sunshine, and thinking where next."
For me, it is the SUNSHINE that renders all screen based mapping near to useless. I have been known to have to hang all sorts of clothing over the car windows in an attempt to see the screen .....much to the amusement of passers-bye.
Hopefully within a few years we will have good reflective colour screens, working in the same fashion as the original Kindle b&w screens
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I have a paper road atlas (you are not a luddite) that is really good to follow. Also, the ACSI app is good.
My interest is just that with technology as it is someone may have found a hidden gem that could be useful with POI and other stuff.
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why not install CoPilot onto the ipad, many on here use it effectively...
its primarily a route planner, satnav and, presumably....an ipad based map.
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Because your route or destination always seems to be in the crease of the centre of the book or just about on the edge of a page so you're turning the page back & forward to see it. And a paper atlas doesn't say turn left here & right there. It's nice to have paper maps to see the whole area, but you cant beat a decent sat-nav. I usually use an oldish TomTom, but have also tried tablet & phone based navigation, they both zoom in as & when it's required ....... paper maps can't do that.
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MM
I was going by what the OP said that he has a sat nav, I imagined the mapping on his tablet was in addition?
David
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There is certainly one in the App Store for Germany. Relatively new and no reviews. Might be worth £2.99 to see if it of any use.
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We have 'map.me' on our iPad which we have found invaluable. I purchased the app but I think it is free now. You can download detailed maps as and when you need them then delete to release memory when you move on. Most countries are divided into several maps.
The app gets updates quite regularly. Many caravan sites we have used have been included in the database, so you can put 'pins' on your map of sites and other places of interest, such as supermarkets, car parks, restaurants.
A blue arrow tracks where you are and by GPS (I guess!) will move as you drive along. I find this particularly useful for the final approach when you can zoom right in to identify street names and other landmarks.
I still like a road atlas with a good scale but this combo has worked for us for a number of years.
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Thanks - heading off this week with a good road map, iPad copilot so should be set.
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Try navmii, it's an app you can use off the Internet .
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Just back from Europe having used CoPilot. a few observations.
Set for MH with quickest route
Issue 1 - Arrived Rotterdam & headed to Luxembourg - CoPilot tried twice to take us off main route (traffic was not an issue) - stayed on main route and it corrected itself as we passed junction. reviewed the route summary and it did not show the routes it tried to take us.
Issue 2 - Heading from Rudesheim on the Rhine to Delft - we had traffic enabled and data was on and working but it did not pick up a route closure (looked like it had been a while). we arrived at the barrier to then have to turn around and follow diversion. It picked up roadworks in Koblenz and did route us successfully around them.
Issue 3 - Leaving Delftse Hout site, it tried to direct onto a bus only route under a bridge that was way too low. This was at the end of campsite street so was obvious and easy to avoid.
Overall, it was clear and seemed accurate with exception of above. Better than the default AutoTrail one we have.
Morale of this story is never trust satnav 100%, keep good paper roadmap at hand (e.g. diversion) and plan ahead !
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CoPilot Europe was set to caravan (icon shows motorhome) but had choice of others - car, motorcycle, bicycle, foot.
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Thanks YB, sounds like the car version which may explain some of the quirks, they all have them but I have found the truck version much better than most but it is considerably more expensive than either the caravan or car version but it has kept me out of trouble for the past 3 years and something like 20,000 miles of use.
peedee
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We use copilot (premium EU version) and set it to motorhome (customised) when towing. As far as I know this does not affect choice of route other than to observe the speeds you have set for various road type. I set it to very slow speeds for urban / minor roads and tell it to avoid these like the plague, which generally works fairly well.
Incidentally, when you set a destination using coordinates for a campsite, this is often on restricted roads which gives a very annoying beep when route planning. After some experimentation I managed to silence this - details here: https://support.copilotgps.com/en/support/discussions/topics/19000018921
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Not sure how OP would down load to a paper roadmap ..... 
