travel maps, programs

You can get the Rand McNally RV GPS app for your iPad.. Also CoPilot. I think the Rand McNally may need wifi but the CoPilot does not. neither are free in the APP Store. You can even purchase a stand for your iPad so you can use it as a GPS.

I have the new 2014 De Lorme maps + USB GPS unit . We have windows 7 on our laptop. We use it while driving works great. Comes with a telephone directory. So at any point on the trip you can find most commercial phone numbers. Got mine from gps store . com about $46.

We've used Delorme Street Atlas for 20 years. It's excellent for planning a detailed trip off the interstates. It shows a LOT of detail.

I have Streets and Trips, and DeLorme Topo (Street Atlas maps and function built in) on PC, useboth for different kinds of off-line mapping and planning problems but not while driving.

Have both Google Maps and Apple's maps app on both tablet or phone. I do not use the tablet while driving, but will set up the phone to solve a specific "now that I'm in town, just where is it?" problem, if I don't have the Garmin Nuvi with me. On the tablet, it is a planning, and plan modification tool, used when stationary, often in evening to work out the next day, since I now seldom carry a PC.

There are more mapping, routing, find it and take me to, apps for my GPS equipped tablet or phone, including major vendors like TomTom, Garmin, and CoPilot. CoPilot's planning tool is free, and the operational versions are surprisingly inexpensive, unless you need something like "Europe HD Truck."

You will find at least a half dozen apps like this for your tablet, except maybe if it is Windows or restricted to a phone company's store.

Some apps will carry map data on the tablet, these tend to. be more expensive. Others, particularly the inexpensive or free ones, download maps and points of interest as you move, these need a good wireless connection and data plan.

For a Windows PC, I know about Streets and Trips, CoPilot, and DeLorme Street Atlas. There may be more for commercial markets, but for consumers on Windows PCs, Microsoft now has most of the market.

With all these apps, what I use when driving is my Garmin, because it requires the least of my attention. I do not use it for routing, I use it to keep track of where I am. My route is always in my head and subject to change with circumstance or by whim.

If you have a non-driving navigator who has learned to use the mapping software, the PC or tablet app can work pretty well. For a driver, it can require way too much attention, or may be tempting to fiddle with even if attention is not demanded by the software. GPS navigators, and smartphone navigation apps, has moved toward "I'm not going to let you do that because I can sense we are moving at 70 mph."

Directory apps are on my phone, handier than the tablet. In addition to information accessed by Maps and Google Maps, I carry Yelp!, NGS Natioal Park Guides, Michigan DNR's camping app, Florida State Parks app (and others if I am going there), as well as RV park directories from Good Sam and RVparking.com. There are others as well, priced according to how they handle data and their advertising support. There other directories according to interests, including restaurant guides for different tastes, other Yellow Pages things than Yelp!, a location and buying app for almost any major discount store or restaurant chain, and specialty directories like the Beer Cloud.

Find your tablet's app store and start browsing. Apple's app store and Google Play's app store are both over a million titles.

Allstays camp and RV app.

Sure. MICROSOFT Streets and Trips. You buy a USB GPS puck and you are in bidness. Amazon.