Haven't tried Navfree yet. When it first came out there was no map of Canada listed as available, so I didn't dig any further and forgot about it. How's the routing and route recalculation? Copilot will give two alternative routes (total 3 routes) and the routes editable by dragging. Route recalc is pretty snappy and logical ( for me anyway). I tried the Sygic GPS trial from Google Play and while I prefered it over Copilot for it's interface, routing was pretty bad, and re-routing absolutely sucked. It kept trying to have me make a u-turn on a four lane divided highway (not exit and re-enter at the ramps, but an actual u-turn
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ETA: Reviews of Navfree seem to indicate you need to be online to search maps for address unless you have the USA version.
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love the app in principle. anyway, if you are truely offline (like i am with my tablet without 3g data plan) on the road, you wont be able to search addresses, cities, streets, pois or anything. i know that this limitation does not exist on the us version of the app though... anyway, it's not an offline navigator, as long as i cannot search my destination while i'm offline. the only offline 'emergency workaroud' so far is to find and set your approx destination on the actual offline map. as long as you roughly know where you want to go and can find it on the map, you are fine. the maps show city names and street names, but no house numbers.
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So useless for me.