Recent content by Maverick Maven

Android devices with stock OS can't see ad-hoc WiFi networks. This seems to be a security decision by google. Most laptops and usb WiFi sticks, however, can *only* create ad-hoc WiFi hotspots. This is a hardware limitiation. Finally, those few android devices that can create hotspots, will...

I dislike most that it can neither create any WiFi hotspot (ad hoc or infrastructure) nor can it connect to an ad-hoc hotspot.

Google maps works perfectly offline if you navigate and zoom to relevant map areas online and save them for later offline use. That's a lot more handy than solutions that force you to download the map of a whole country. But if you do need to navigate across a whole country, then I recommend OSM...

You didn't say in which country you love and whether you require offline maps. Anyway, did you consider Navfree? It is based on OSM and it works full offline (like a car nav). You have to download the map for the whole country you are driving in (if provided). Get it from...

InSync is supposed to do that on Linux. See https://www.insynchq.com/