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We did cross africa with an iPad as Navigation Unit, and a iPhone as failover device.
They worked well for us. A failover we had not to use.
With an additional backup like map and a compass - you look well prepared
For shure, a cheap Garmin Nüvi with T4A and Openstreetmaps will also do his job, when you just need road orientation. Abroad and during offroad navigation, there is a Smartdevice with offline Satellite/Terrain Maps the strongest you can get.
Specially in Africa, wich arent good covered by alternative Maps.
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We did cross africa with an iPad as Navigation Unit, and a iPhone as failover device.
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Hey,
Sorry to barge into this thread and ask questions, but I'm going to Morocco in a few weeks and was thinking about using the iPhone/iPad combo you used.
Which app(s) did you use to display the maps?
... Did you go through Morocco and get Olaf on the iPad?
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I did use MotionX for offline satellite view and offline Terrainmaps.
Too we had Openstreetmap downloaded in motionX.
I did use TomTom Marocco as Road Navigation App for Point to Point Navigation (Turn left in 50m), since MotionX is just for orientation during Track & offroad driving.
Dont think that Olafs Map give any additional informations.. It was the best what you can get, before you could download all the stuff named above...
Tracks4africa is also a nice App, but just for Marocco an expensive buy..
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