You are going on holiday and you take with you… your good mood of course, because who doesn’t make a holiday happy? At least as indispensable is a good navigation system. Fortunately, there is one on your smartphone: Google Maps. And Google Maps doesn’t just navigate, it even helps you find your car. But what does that actually cost: Google Maps abroad?
Endless wandering through abandoned villages is no longer an option. Where you used to sweat over the large map book, later the navigation system became your best friend. And nowadays even such a navigation box is already a bit old-fashioned: long live the smartphone.
Navigate by GPS
Google Maps is a user-friendly app that really helps you find your way anywhere. If you have not worked with Google Maps before, then the explanation of senior web recommended. The app navigates by GPS and does not use MBs of your internet bundle for navigation. But… Google Maps does need MBs to download the maps. Fortunately, there is also a smart solution for this.
Use Google Maps
If you navigate with Google Maps, it will cost you about 35 MB per hour in the car. This depends on the maps that the app needs to download along the way. If you drive through a busy area with many roads, the app will consume more than if you drive through a sparsely populated area with few roads.
Google Maps without MBs
You can also let Google Maps navigate without using MBs. You do this by saving maps offline on your smartphone at home – via your own WiFi. Your phone no longer needs to download anything while driving. By the way, you cannot download a complete road map of a country, Google Maps only downloads limited areas that you can select yourself. You can of course save as many maps as you want: in the end you will have all roads in France, for example, at your disposal.
Offline Maps Save Google Maps
- Open Google Maps
- Press the three lines at the top left
- Press ‘Offline Maps’
- Press ‘Custom card’
- On the map, navigate to the area you want to save offline
- Press ‘Download’
- Map is now saved offline via WiFi
- You can repeat this as many times as you want, depending of course on the storage space on your phone
You can find out about saving maps offline at senior web Also a detailed explanation, with an instructional video.
No more searching for your car
Did you know that Google Maps can also help you find your parked car? This is especially handy on holiday: you are certainly not the first who can no longer find that one parking space under the plane trees. You can easily set a location as a parking space in Google Maps:
- Park your car and open the Google Maps app
- Press your location: the flashing blue circle
- Press ‘Set as parking spot’
- You will now see a ‘P’ appear at this location: exactly where your car is parked.
Google Maps and Roaming
Today you no longer pay roaming charges in the countries of the European Union plus Switzerland, Andorra, Norway, Iceland, Monaco and Liechtenstein. This means that calling, texting and using the internet will cost you just as much on a French or German campsite as on a Dutch campsite.
