My wife and I are doing our first metric century in September. It looks like the turn sheet is all electronic and that's where I need help.

I have an Android (Samsung) phone and no data plan. So I am looking for the best application that I can load a map to and it will give me the turn by turn directions for the route.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Google maps will now do what I am looking for, but I am appealing to the collective wisdom of the forum to help me out.

Fellow cyclers, your best advice?

Google Maps just started offering turn-by-turn real-time navigation for bicycle routes. Google Maps also allows you to cache maps so you don't need a data connection.

i agree about google maps. i have a samsung galaxy s2 i do have a data plan and i like the map my ride app.................its pretty easy and cool

You can also download the latest OSMAND nightly build. Turn by turn voice instructions for downloaded GPX routes. Here's the link:

https://download.osmand.net/latest-night-build/

Choose the development version.

Bob

This should not be confused with what the OP is trying to do. I believe he has obtained a GPX route from a website for a metric century ride that he wants to download to his phone for turn by turn directions. The latest Google Map revision provides biking directions, but you still enter the start and end points, not the entire route.

Still seems like OSMAND is the best app for turn by turn voice navigation of GPX routes.

I've been very impressed with OsmAnd for following a GPX track.

However, I've found that I don't need turn-by-turn directions, and this makes things quite easy. OsmAnd can do turn-by-turn, as others have said, but I don't think it is worth the trouble. It's cool when it works well, but in my experience, too often something will go wrong, and I'll find myself needing to check the screen.

So, instead of bothering with turn-by-turn, I have it superimpose the GPX track I'm following on the map, and I look at the screen when I'm near a turn. Most of the time, however, I keep the screen off. But, I make a mental note of roughly when I'll next turn, and when I get near, I turn the screen back on.

The best thing about OsmAnd is that you can download maps state by state (assuming you're in the U.S.), and they're stored, in their entirety, on your phone. That means you can put the phone in airplane mode, which does not prevent it from receiving a GPS signal, and your battery will last for a long time. That is, no data communication is needed at all.

If interested, here's a Bike Forums post I made about my first experience of riding with OsmAnd, and here's a post about how I hold the phone (it includes s picture of a GPX track superimposed on an OsmAnd map).

Google navigation will not work without a data connection. You CAN download the maps but that won't help you for what you want I don't think.

Google real-time Maps is good

Google Maps allow you to cache the pictures of the maps, but it does not allow you to cache the connectivity information. In other words, it can only cache the pretty pictures you can look at, but no more.

This means that Google Maps cannot be used for turn-by-turn navigation without a data connection. All turn turn-by-turn navigation routes are always calculated by Google servers. In order to generate a tun-by-turn route the data connection is absolutely always required.