Sat Nav for the USA

regional

Hope this is the right forum, did not know whether I should post on cars/motoring, so forgive me.
My question is which is the best sat nav to get, been looking on google and got overwhelmed !

What to spend say £150 ?

Thanking you in anticipation

EveryWhere

No one uses SatNavs any more. In fact we paid for one with our car rental, but never once turned it on. Happily they gave a full refund.
We just used an old Windows Phone, which cost £10, with Here Maps/Here Drive. Offline maps are free.

Lorian

Google maps, android phone, cheap sim with roam like at home data, and you are done. download and cache the area of map you are going to over your Wifi before you leave.

worried_jim

Last time I hired a car in the US (November) they had about 50 of each car type and just let me choose one so I picked one with built in sat Nav (dodge caravan), other wise would have used phone.

But plenty going cheap on the bay of e.

tempus_fugit

EveryWhere wrote: »

No one uses SatNavs any more. In fact we paid for one with our car rental, but never once turned it on. Happily they gave a full refund.
We just used an old Windows Phone, which cost £10, with Here Maps/Here Drive. Offline maps are free.

Yes, I often use HERE maps in offline mode when I want to save data. It's actually a pretty good navigation system. I particularly like the large, clear direction indicators at the top of the screen, and the speed limit indicator at the bottom.

marlot

regional wrote: »

Hope this is the right forum, did not know whether I should post on cars/motoring, so forgive me.
My question is which is the best sat nav to get, been looking on google and got overwhelmed !

What to spend say £150 ?

Thanking you in anticipation

Use google maps.

Download the maps for the area you want in advance so you don't need much data.
Ensure your SIM is activated for the USA (Three are best in my experience - no extra charge on many of the plans).
Enjoy!


If you have a spare android phone kicking around you can use one of these data SIMs https://www.mymemory.co.uk/3-payg-4g-trio-data-sim-pack-with-12gb-data.html

DCFC79

Not sure what else I can add since you have received some good replies.

regional

Thank you all for sending me such great info and taking the time out to reply.Really really appreciate it.

Neil_Jones

The only caveat with Google Maps on occasion is it'll suddenly tell you to do a U-Turn in totally random places because a change in the GPS co-ordinates causes it to think you've turned off onto the wrong road. That being said it did happen occasionally with a TomTom so so it's not unique to Google Maps, this "feature"

EveryWhere

Neil_Jones wrote: »

The only caveat with Google Maps on occasion is it'll suddenly tell you to do a U-Turn in totally random places because a change in the GPS co-ordinates causes it to think you've turned off onto the wrong road. That being said it did happen occasionally with a TomTom so so it's not unique to Google Maps, this "feature"

Have to state that I prefer the Here Maps/Here Drive combo(Windows 8.1 Mobile) to Google Maps. Google maps I always found a PITA. Though better than nothing. Possibly I didn't work out all the functions of Google Maps at the time, but I always reverted back to the Windows Phone.

getmore4less

I am keeping my windows phone with here drive and a "3" 200MB pm free data sim to use in the US with feel at home as a sat nav.

Enough data to do searches in the here suite and Google to find places.