I am preparing a 1-week bicycle trip. We can't use high-traffic roads, so I am preparing a quite complex route on small country roads, using Google Maps.
With my phone saddled on my bicycle, is there a GPS app that will "guide" me using the itinerary I crafted? Turn-by-turn would be ideal, but just writing the itinerary as a map overlay would be better than nothing.
Note: My phone is WiFi only so I will need an application that can cache a lot of maps, like AndNav2 or Maverick. Also, I am stuck with Android 1.5
Answer
Here is what I ended up doing, it works well:
On your computer's Firefox, install the GMapToGPX bookmarklet.
Prepare your itinerary with Google Maps Itinerary.
While still on the Google Maps page, click on the GMapToGPX bookmarklet. It opens a GPX conversion dialog.
Click on the blue tab buttons to make them read like this: "Route Track Points About". It will not work otherwise.
Copy-paste the XML text in a new file, for instance myitinerary.gpx
On Android, install Maverick.
Copy your GPX file to /sdcard/maverick/tracks
In Maverick, select the track file
Scroll your way along the route at appropriate zoom levels to store the tiles in the cache.
The free version of Maverick allows 3 tracks files.
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