Originally Posted by dvs7310

I guess my statement was a bit ambiguous. I am not advocating caching the maps on Google Maps at home and then heading out on the road, unless using one of the other solutions that you mentioned, that would certainly be trouble. What I meant is that there are A LOT of dead spots in African countries, including South Africa (just on the pretty main highway between Piet Retief and Hluhluwe my signal dropped countless times... granted it was on that crap-o CellO card), so someone using Google Maps whose signal drops out will be fine for quite a while since the maps for the vicinity will have already loaded while the signal was live.