Car GPS recommendations?

[Erik]

Anyone know a good Android GPS app that works using the GPS only, and not the google maps in it?

I was abroad last year and couldn't get the maps to work in the country I was in, which was a bit of an inconvenience. Not all of the cab drivers knew the street I wanted to go to, and it would have been great to be able to at least point in the general direction.

Either I want a navigation function so i can locate an address and then navigate to it using offline maps, or I'd at least want to be able to store location points and use the GPS to get the direction and distance. That way i can probably find the roads to get there, eventually.

[Mike OTDP]

I like the TomTom. I've got a TomTom One, was given a 540 for Christmas. I'll keep the One, it's very compact - just the thing for travel. One thing I don't like is that TomTom will only let you have one unit linked to their online account.

One thing I DO do is to shut the noise off. I want navigation, not talk.

[Mike OTDP]

Major update...do not buy a TomTom.

I was given a 540 for Christmas. It didn't boot up. Which is unsatisfactory to begin with.

Spent an hour trying to troubleshoot it, spent another 30 minutes with their customer service. They're willing to replace it...if I pay to ship it to them.

Worse, their software only allows one unit to be associated with an e-mail address. Which means that if you get a new unit, the old one becomes an orphan.

Really unsatisfactory. I'm trying to see if I can get this unit to the retailer and buy a Garmin.

[Highspeed]

We are on our 3rd TomTom now - the first just died shortly after the warranty expired, the second got terminally bricked by a software update ( I told my missis, NEVER UPDATE ANYTHING, but did she listen ? ) and the third is OK so far - now I figured out how to run a cracked version of the O\S and pirated maps. TomTom have had enough of our money thanks...

The maps are superb, even the tiny caminos on the mountain show up and they aren't even legally classed as roads. The address search doesn't always work but then how is the unit supposed to cope with a zip code that covers 30 entire grid squares and houses which don't have numbers but crazy names instead ? ( like 'the house with no doors' - no kidding, we live at 'the house near the big white rock' )

[Aglifter]

*Grin*. I grew up in an area like that - sometime while I was in college, the county tried to extend "911" service out there... In an area where the cops and fire dept. needed directions, and down a road which involved driving through 3 creeks...

They came up w. 456 "Nearest major road", because we were 4.56 miles from the nearest larger road - still single-lane, but about 20 miles long, and connected to the two-lane roads which went to town.

[HTRN]

Going by av customer reviews on Amazon, it looks like the Garmin 1370 is the way to go, although an updated(and therefore more expensive) version is available, but it doesn't have nearly as many reviews(roughly an order of magnitude), and has lower ratings(3.6 vs 3.8).