Using Mobile Data

[mucky1957]

Hi

I have an old satnav in my car which doesn't recognise a road that I need to get to.

I am travelling about 60 miles in total down the M6 but from there my satnav in the car is useless.

I have google maps on my phone and I can see that it can get me to where I eed to be but because I only have pay as you go I will need to go into phone settings and turn mobile data on.

Here is the Q. If it takes me about 30 minutes to get to where I am going using google maps can anyone give me a rough idea of how much data would be used/what the cost would be.

Thanks

[madasaf1sh · Accepted solution]

@mucky1957 

Naff all is the answer, as it uses between 5 and 10Mb per hour on Android or IOS

[gmarkj]

You can also use Google Maps offline mode to download the local map to your phone @mucky1957 (assuming you can connect to a WiFi source to do so)?

See some help from Google about doing this on Android:

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838?hl=en-GB&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid 

And on iPhone/iPad:

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838?hl=en-GB&co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS 

[mucky1957]

many thanks for the information. Much appreciated