You don’t have cellphone coverage—or affordable cellphone coverage—everywhere. That’s why Joel asked if he could download maps when he has Wi-Fi, and use them ...

ALK (that's the company behind CoPilot Live) is no stranger to GPS apps, but it's starting afresh this week with a new application offering more features for free. CoPilot GPS, which will be available ...

Travelers everywhere lean on the utility and functionality of a good map app. Maps help us to make sense of the world, and they are critically important for finding directions – whether in the city we ...

You can find plenty of navigation apps for Android on the Google Play Store and they rely to a great extent on GPS feature of the phone. They provide easy navigation but whenever we think about this ...

Just curious if these notebooks would have something like a Windows Phone that lets you have offline maps running along with turn by turn directions. Bugger, I was thinking I could finally figure out ...

Senior editor @gristonline and co-founder @CSLFootball_. Fondness for sport, film, technology & travel. Views are my own. Even the good ones. ALK Technologies has released a free GPS app for Apple and ...

Lose your signal in the backcountry and your map app may look blank, but the phone in your pocket can still know where it is. The short answer to does GPS work without data is yes. A smartphone or ...

Hello from Canmore, Alberta—a resort town nestled around the feet of Canada’s Rocky Mountains. While my partner works her way through a two-week wilderness first-aid course, I’ve been left to my own ...

It’s been a long time since navigation technology was confined to an expensive dedicated satnav device – now you can get detailed maps, turn-by-turn directions and live traffic updates on your phone.