Where are we going now? Where are we sleeping tonight? In my time, we knew how to be content with the right menu and a little feeling. Of course, it’s still possible, but why deprive ourselves of some useful apps that can change our lives. So yes, we were delighted to have our maps in the right old paper format, to travel the Americas. We took advantage of an old rand mcnally driving directions to atlas for the USA. However, a few Michelin plans for Peru, Argentina, excellent South America – The Andes map (Nelles Map), which I highly recommend.
But all the same, sometimes, we are in – we are looking for a – lost hole. We do not know if we are passing the 2nd or 3rd branch after this dry bed, which could correspond to this beautiful blue line. Let ourselves be surprised (once again) by night. And frankly, we don’t find it very glamorous to sleep (once again) on a gas station. In short, we remember that we are 2.0. We say thank you to everyone for these apps! So let’s know more about rand McNally driving directions.
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rand mcnally driving directions
To the question ‘Where are we going now? Our answer is: Maps.me
Among all the mapping apps available, and going a little backward. We still ended up rallying to the majority by adopting Maps.me.
Before we got there, we used Here (WeGO) on our 40,000 km drive through the Americas, and we also tested OsmAnd, on our more recent France – Albania route. However, I also use Google Maps daily for my trips.
Almost all of them offer routes by car, on foot, and by bicycle. Most also provide public transport.
Maps.me
OS: iOS, Android, blackberry
Price: free
Works offline (after downloading maps by country or region beforehand)
Map source: OpenStreetMap
Most :
Possibility to import markers and routes from Google Map
Download only small portions of regions (where other apps require downloading by country)
WARNING: if you download only the portions of the map useful for your route, you risk having parts missing if you stop at a location and recalculate your way from there. That can be costly if you need to do a new download, and the consumption of data is not free. A word of advice: download the full map of the country in advance.
Here WeGo
OS: iOS, Android, windows
Price: free
Works offline (after downloading maps by country or region beforehand)
The lessers :
– when we used it, it did not allow direct entry of geographic coordinates
OsmAnd
OS: iOS, Android
Price: free, limited to 7 cards at a time. For more cards, you must either remove them as you go or switch to paying OmsAnd + at 9 €
Works offline (after downloading maps by country or region beforehand)
Map source: OpenStreetMap
The lessers :
– The navigation mode, step by step, is useful, but I did not find the display of the complete route on the map. Does the option exist?
– the cards are more decadent than on other apps
– the app is very energy-intensive.
Google maps
OS: iOS, Android
Price: free
Works offline, provided you have downloaded the areas concerned by the search for a route before.
Most :
– possibility to import markers and routes from Google Map (necessarily!)
– possibility of downloading only the portions of maps corresponding to the desired route. But be careful, on the one hand, do not change your mind along the way, and on the other hand, if you stop for an intermediate stage, That will not have downloaded the local area. It is, therefore, impossible to recalculate the route without performing a new download.
Waze
OS: iOS, Android, Windows
Price: free
Login required
For me, this is an app with a completely different use from long-haul route tracking. Very useful for knowing the traffic in large cities and major roads, it allows you to consider alternative routes calmly.
Due to its use, it necessarily only works in connected mode.
CityMapper
OS: iOS, Android
Price: free
Login required
Very practical also for finding the best route, according to all modes of transport. Very efficient for the Île de France, it is present in France for Lyon and its suburbs.
In Europe: Brussels (+ all of Belgium), London, Manchester, Birmingham, Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Randstad, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Istanbul.
In North America: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Mexico.
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These apps allow finding a bivouac for the night counted on the (4) fingers in 2015. Today, it would take our two hands and our two feet to list them all.
Our favorite is ioverlander, discovered in Latin America. But in the big league, we also find Park4night and, for more targeted areas, Campermate and Wikicamps.
iOverlander
OS: iOS, Android
Price: free (donation possible).
Works offline (but with a gray background instead of the map. Except when switching to a third-party GPS app.
Ioverlander can plugged into all the apps mentioned above)
This app is a nugget. The idea is to update the database when you have a wifi connection, which also allows you to send your own new POIs.
Mainly present in Ampat, where we discovered it, and it accompanied us for 9 months since 2016 ioverlander has developed considerably in Nord. Little by little, it is also making its way in Europe and on other continents.
Extremely rich, it allows you to search for places in different categories.
Our most used: Informal Campsite and Wild Camping of course. But also Established Campground and sometimes Hotel and Hostel
- When you are at the end of your gas reserves: Propane
- In some extreme cases or desert area: Fuel Station
- Mechanic and Parts: In case of difficulty
- In countries where it exists: Water and especially Sanitation Dump Station
Customs and Immigration are efficient for border crossings because there is usually recent information on the procedures to follow to cross the border. However, ditto for Vehicle Insurance and Vehicle Shipping
Laundromat
And to prepare for rogue cop checks: Checkpoint or Warning. The latter also serves to mark the risk areas where some travelers have been attacked/snowshoeing.
In the end, there are only those that have not yet used: Restaurant, Tourist Attraction, Shopping, Medical, Pet Services, Consulate / Embassy, Vehicle Storage, and Other. However, which doesn’t mean they never will be.
For the main one concerning us, Informal Campsite, it is possible to precisely enter what we are looking for, particularly the ‘Big Rig’ icon, which allows us to be sure that the bivouac will be accessible large motorhome. The other information provided can also be valuable: Electricity, wifi,
Kitchen, Restaurant, Showers, Water, Toilets, Tent Friendly, and Pet Friendly.
What more?
Park4night rand mcnally driving directions
OS: iOS, Android, Windows as well as iGo, Garmin, and TomTom
Price: free in degraded mode, otherwise 2 € / month or 10 € / year for the PRO version.
Full offline in the paid version
It is also very well known and widely used. The bivouacs are numerous, but the other side of the coin is that they often prove to be overcrowded on arrival in the summer season for these countries. However, it turns out to be more impressive when you leave Europe.
The app only manages, in theory, bivouacs with recreational vehicles (campervans, motorhomes, campervans), with the following categories:
- Spots in the countryside
- Service areas for motorhomes
- Service areas without parking
- Picnic areas
- Motorway rest areas
- Campsites
- Reception at the farm
- Day and night parking lots
Having used the free version, I enjoyed the iOverlander much less. A lot of advertising occupies the screen, and the spots are only visible in online mode or by having them previously added as favorites when we had wifi. However, in short, unusable when traveling without a data plan abroad.
Now, these restrictions do not exist for who is willing to pay for the PRO version.
Wikicamps
(Not tested in the situation)
OS: iOS, Android, Windows as well as iGo, Garmin, and TomTom
Price: 5 days trial then AUS $ 8
Works offline after downloading the map.
It is the most popular app for Australia, where it lists more than 30,000 POIs divided into the following categories: Campsites, Caravan parks, youth hostels, as well as Space for the day, various POIs, Information center, and Dump station.
Wikicamps is also present in the world’s central English-speaking regions (Canada, USA, New-Zealand, UK), but each time it is a different app.
Campermate rand mcnally driving directions
(Not tested in the situation)
OS: iOS, Android
Price: free
Works offline
I have not tested it on site (I would like to!). It offers POIs in Australia and New Zealand, and m seemed nicer than Wikicamps. It more and more often cited as an alternative to it in different travel groups.
The categories available are camping, hostels, and motels, wifi, free toilets, things to do/see, supermarkets, gasoline, dump station, showers, traffic alerts.
Stellplatz Europe
OS: iOS, Android
Price: free and paid
Works offline
It is the benchmark for Scandinavia but also has POIs all over Europe.
So much for the main ones, but there are many others: Free Campsites, Allstate
Other apps I like
Wanda rand mcnally driving directions
OS: iOS, Android
Price: free
Works offline
An application from the Institute of Tropical Medicine (IMT) in Antwerp (Belgium) is available in 3 languages to inform travelers about their destination country’s health risks.
Extremely practical, its main asset is to provide vaccination obligations or recommendations for all countries of the world.
More than a hundred various articles are also available, ranging from the preparation of your medical kit to the steps to follow in the event of an animal bite, through how to manage the tourist or altitude sickness, or even the different localization maps of tropical diseases.
It is also a way for Belgians to make an International Vaccination Center appointment or take out health insurance.
MapStr
OS: iOS, Android
Price: free
Connection required to create new POIs
A UFO of its kind.
The app allows you to add the POIs you want on a map, tagging them as you want, and then share them (or not) with your friends and only your friends.
An additional feature, MapStore allows you to buy (some are also free) maps created by various professionals, influencers, agencies.
Efficient but straightforward interface.
Travello
OS: iOS, Android
Price: free
Login required
Do we no longer present Instagram? Bin Travelo, it’s the same, but for travelers. Uh, haven’t I already said that?
Well, Travello, that’s a bit of that, but it’s also many other things. There is Tinder in the possibility of seeing other travelers nearby, the map with lots of different and varied POIs, fun with the possibility of earning badges according to your likes, and other widgets. In short, enough to spend a lot of time connecting with the trip until forgetting to travel?
FAQ of rand mcnally driving directions
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What is the best map for rand mcnally driving directions?
- Maps.me
- Waze
- MotionX GPS
- OSMAnd Maps & Navigation
- Apple Maps
- Driving Directions.
- Google Maps
- MapQuest
- CoPilot GPS Sat-Nav Navigation
- GPS Navigation & Maps Sygic
- MapFactor GPS Navigation Maps.
- Verizon VZ Navigator
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What is the best site for driving tips?
- Waze
- Apple Maps
- Driving Directions.
- Google Maps
- MapQuest
- What is the best free navigation app for the iPhone?
- MotionX-GPS Drive
- CoPilot GPS
- Waze
- MapQuest.
- Scout by Telenav
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Which map app is most accurate?
- Maps.me
- Waze
- MotionX GPS
- OSMAnd Maps & Navigation
- CoPilot GPS Sat-Nav Navigation
- GPS Navigation & Maps Sygic
- MapFactor GPS Navigation Maps.
- Verizon VZ Navigator
Conclusion of rand mcnally driving directions
And finally, a little bulk, going through great generalist classics that we no longer present, to more specific ones that we can easily do without it?
Automatically save your travel itinerary and enrich it afterward: Polarstep (by the way, I do it my way on my site. But in web mode, there is the excellent Planner of A-contredanse, on which I also share my routes)
Get transported: Uber (everywhere), Grab (Asia), Blablacar (France and Europe), Yandex.Taxi (for Russia and Stan countries, designed by the Russian search engine Yandex), Snapp.
