ipad navigation

That would be the same with any device - ipad/android/windows.
If away from data reception (3g) you will need to load maps onto the device beforehand.

Options for Ipad's are Mudmaps (maps supplied), Hema (Maps supplied), Twonav (load you own maps), Bitmap/Maps & Trax (load your own maps) etc etc.

All of these will work with maps without any 3g coverage (eg. middle of Simpson desert) as long as you have a device with GPS.

Not on my Samsung with Navigon, the maps are on the device.

I guess it depends if the OP wants street navigation (turn by turn) or actual off road maps (hema type or topo). If the latter then I don't think Navigon fits the bill although it is good that its free.

Never recommended it for bush, didn't recommend it for anything really, answered your reply that it doesn't download the maps dynamically!

get outmore,

Hehehe, That's not a con.
If it's not an Apple that's a pro:-)

Get out more - get a life! What possible benefit could there be in your constant, inane and gratuitous remarks about anything to do with Apple? I'm sure if you banged on like this about a brand of 4WD the moderators would weigh in.
I am guessing you do this for your personal amusement? What a sad little person you must be.
Bob (owner of Android, iOS, and WinCE devices)

Wow!

Touched on a little nerve have we Bob?
I think it is you that need to get a life for even responding.
I think this may be the first time I personally have said anything negative about a particular piece of fruit.

Bill (owner of Android, WinCE and Windows devices.)
Oh! and I have an iPhone and an iPod:-)

Bill

sorry you got caught in the crossfire. The comment was clearly directed at getoutmore, not you. Have a look at some of his recent posts. Frankly, they'd get on anybodies nerves. If the moderators did their job, we wouldn't have to put up with his repetitive drivel.

Bob

Sorry you dont like it but its stone cold fact many people find after getting an apple theres no decent offroad mapping apps for them and ive seen many such posts both on this and other forums.
Sorry you dont like seeing it
You can use eithet hema or memory map but neither can touch the ozi explorer or free androzic app for choice of maps especially if you take into condideration most people will have ozi explorer maps.
Now you have accused me of inane dribble where ive actually pointed out all the benifits of selling it and buying something like a Sam sung.
Its you with the inane dribble as you have failed to offer any worth while way to conduct offroad mapping with an ipad.
I do actually have some idea what im talking about as I use my galaxy s3 for offroad mapping and bushwalking and have 100s of maps about 15gig of maps with the least detailed and used being hema

Not getting into the Toyota/Nissan.....opps I mean Ipad/Android debate but the fact is I have an Ipad and am more than happy with its off road mapping apps.
I run the Townav app and run all Hema maps (ozi versions), all 1:250 goescience maps, 1:100k of NSW, all 1:25k available for NSW as well.
I have even used their trial software on my pc (not mac) to scan in paper maps and load them onto the ipad for use.

I can record and edit tracks and just about everything else people seem to say they do with Ozi.

And..I can load them all onto the Ipad without Itunes. Need a simple FTP client and drag and drop just like in explorer. Simple eh..

It would be good for Ozi to create an I-app but I'm not holding my breath, but with Twonav I dont need it now.

Checked it out. Also available on Android but few downloads due to better options.

More expensive than ozi and much more mucking around trying to convert maps and the last time I tried using an ftp I gave up in frustration.
I didn't have the required 2 years to wait.
I already have the maps I use them on my phone. 7inch navigator and pc.
I ad to them regulary both buying them off the shelf ready to use as well as swapping maps not found in shops on ozi format.. its made easier due to the large number of people using it

I checked out ozi on pc once and found that much more difficult to use than any FTP client or twonav so if you can figure all the things in ozi then other things should be easy.
Not saying I wouldn't use it myself but it isn't child's play like some make out.
As for there android app, I will not comment one way or another as I don't own it but it seems to get good raps. But there are options on iPad that can do what is being asked for.

There will always be people who prefer both devices and I am happy to have both platform available. It's what makes each of them develop into better products. Let's not kill competition.

competition may be good but not always

im not necc an ozi fan but its failrly irrelevent how other systems operate because what i find the number 1 best thing about ozi is that its like bums. Everyone has one

we get together everynow and again and can straight swap maps, track files, waypoints whatever.
i got onto a bushwalking site and was able to download 50 very specific maps, tracks and waypoints all OZI

not memory map compatible, not twonav compatible- ozi

check out the shop here it sells many digital maps - all Ozi compatible again not directly compatible with the programs you mention.

however thats not the only show stopper with apple when it comes to offroad navigation
No external storage - simple as that . you have to upgrade to very expensive higher internal storage models to not a achieve what other base cheap models do better

I use Memory Map on my Windows notebook, my ipad and my Android phone. It works great on all of them and I like it a lot more than Ozi. It's all personal preference, nobody is right or wrong. The maps aren't cheap but I prefer them.

Mikehzz is on the money. I have used Ozi on windows CE and Hema on the iPad
The IPad is much simpler to use. They all do the job as long as they have the particular maps that you are looking for.

I agree.

iPad with Hema maps is great on the CSR, and anywhere else the GPS can see the sky.

Big screen, very accurate, and you can use your iPad for work too.

iPad is one of the best off road touring accessories. It intuitive and it just works! And without terrestrial signal!

Brett.....

David

Hema is simple...$150...download the app from I-Tunes and everything you need is then on your I-Pad, software, maps (nearly all that Hema have including Topo), tracking system.

Breeze to use, although in saying that I haven't yet 100% mastered the "Waypoint" system.....spent a bit of time on it and can set a waypoint and end point BUT after doing all that can't actually see much benefit...really all I need to see is where I am on a map, so that if I am looking for a track it's easy to find.

A good example of this is last year in the Cape I ran into some guys wanting to do Frenchmans Track (we were coming back onto the PDR from Chilli Beach)...they could not find it (they had in fact gone past the entrance). It was back about 3K's so I turned around and said "follow me and I'll take you to it".

The entrance was fairly overgrown, and not disimilar to many side tracks off the road so I can understand why it was hard to find....we found it, wished them luck and ontinued on our way.

It does NOT provide turn by turn like a Navigator would, otherwise a great bit of kit.

Thanks Mark, simple is my kind of language. Checked it out and looks like what I'm after. Already have a street gps factory fitted in cruiser so moving topo maps is what I'm after.
cheers
David

There are quite a videos on youtube regarding mapping for the iPad.
Heres one for the Hema maps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3G8k6h-p8

Cheers
Mark

More details here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1hs8bzy3Oc

If you get the Hema maps app you can also add more detailed maps to it (eg 1:25K) at a cost, although those provided by Hema are comprehensive.

Checkout Copilot for the IPAD - for around $40 you get turn by turn navigation software that works through the GPS network (ie no phone network required).

You can even have the two apps running concurrently, you can be looking at the Hema maps but still receive the voice directions from Copilot.

If you have an IPAD you may as well use it. No need to get anything else.

Rich