Left Coast Geek
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Do the sync3 maps on a 2019 cover Mexico ?
Mexico map coverage?
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Because cellular data is very spotty in rural Mexico...
rob4092xx
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The Nav in my 2022 Expy covers Mexico.
SyndicateZ
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It doesnt work well once you get deep into Mexico. I tried using it when doing my border runs for El Mayo.
Download the area into the Google maps app. You should have coverage then.
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problem is, i'm spending 4 months with a RV caravan traveling all over mexico. I don't think I can download the whole country. and downloaded map sections can expire when you least expect them to. I've gotten burned before where I thought I had map sections all downloaded just to have them not available when I was off grid.
this isn't the exact route, but its close to a bunch of it.
this isn't the exact route, but its close to a bunch of it.
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Have you ever taken that route before? Some of the areas are known to be dangerous. Be prepared. With that said, Samsung phones have GPS chips built in, unless extremely old. So a third party GPS that supports GPS will help.
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Traveling with a caravan who does this every year, wagon master in front, Green Angel tow truck as a sag wagon.
My phone has a GPS chip, so does the Expedition... GPS just gives you your precise latitude and longitude... you need mapping software to make that useful. Google maps depend on the cloud, require any Internet connection to fetch sections... the Ford maps are stored in the vehicles nav computer and work without Internet access
My phone has a GPS chip, so does the Expedition... GPS just gives you your precise latitude and longitude... you need mapping software to make that useful. Google maps depend on the cloud, require any Internet connection to fetch sections... the Ford maps are stored in the vehicles nav computer and work without Internet access
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I'm in the business and can tell you there are many ways to navigate offline. Example from Google maps "Google Maps can be used without the need to connect to the internet." My phones work just fine without internet or cloud access. You just have to know what GPS app to use and what offline map best suits your needs. Regarding a 2019 Expedition, since NA 2 21 is the current version of maps, the maps could possibly be outdated. I find this a lot in my 2019 Platinum, where new roads, highways, exits, etc. are missing.
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well, I just bought the nav upgrade from Ford, downloaded the current maps, stuck the stuff on a USB stick and upgraded the system with it... restart car, zoom out til I see most of California, drag down to the west coast of Mexico, zoom in and find Mazatlán, keep zooming in, wow, all the boulevards, zoom in some more, and fine grids of city streets. tried same thing on Merida near Yucatan, and boom yeah, right down to the city street level.
says I just got NA 2 22
somehow I'm not expecting a lot of road changes in the rural parts of Mexico the caravan I'm joining will be exploring.
says I just got NA 2 22
somehow I'm not expecting a lot of road changes in the rural parts of Mexico the caravan I'm joining will be exploring.
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I was able to download a 22 map update about a month ago for my 2018 Expy. I did pay for an update subscription.
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My Garmin GPSs both cover Mexico (and Canada) and unlike the years old Sync maps the Garmin maps get revised several times a year at no cost to me. Prudent navigator does not depend on a single source of information. When the Garmin sitting on the dash right over the Sync GPS disagrees with Sync I use the Garmin data.
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-- Chuck
PhoenixRizez
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I make sure my Expy’s nav is updated before any big trip. Those offline maps are great if you know every area you’ll be in and download it in advance, but I wing-it where I’m going on my trips a LOT, so I don’t know in advance where I’ll be. And I’ve had MANY occasions right here in the good old USA where my phone became a paperweight. If any of you know a great off-line nav app that will navigate all off North or South America with no service coverage, please let us know specifically which one does.
Mackenzie Gans
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I would recommend a Garmin unit, it will solve all of your problems. Google Maps and the Ford NAV will be USA-centric so you will never really solve the problem using them.
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as it turns out, most of the campsites DID have wifi internet available, and/or a fellow RV traveler let me use his Starlink, so I was able to download offline maps for the next few days travel into my phone's Google Maps, and this worked quite well. The journey was a total of 9960 miles from home to home (but this included almost 2000 miles to the initial border crossing in McAllen, Texas, then about 1000 miles home from Nogales,AZ with a detour to my wife's cousin in Orange County.
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You should make a trip thread!
I agree! Sounds like a very interesting trip!
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phew, it was 4 months long. here's my photo album, organized by where we stayed, newest folder on top.
