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From: Simon Finnigan on 18 Dec 2009 14:36
"Theo Markettos" <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Simon Finnigan <simonfinnigan(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Incidentally, is there a europe wide data use sim that`s easily
>> available?
>> I go to Europe a lot more often and that may well be worth having.
>
> There are some options given here:
> http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/europe/5504-best-prepaid-sim-european-data-roaming.html
>
> ...suggests T-Mobile UK at GBP1.50/MB or Play Poland at EUR1.25/MB is the
> cheapest.

Thanks everyone for your contributions, but the costs are still far too high
for a normal user. I think the old fashioned route of finding a McDonalds
and buying a hot chocolate will give me good enough coverage at a sensible
cost :-)

From: Theo Markettos on 19 Dec 2009 13:37
Simon Finnigan <simonfinnigan(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> It`s certainly the cheapest option, but I was hoping more to have access
> to google maps etc while out and about without worrying about data costs.
> I`ve found an app for 59p that gives me an offline map on the iphone of
> the city I`m going to, so it`s easier than a paper map, but not ideal.

OpenStreetmap.org have freely downloadable maps in a variety of formats.
There are probably phone/laptop apps to display this offline, as well as
loading the maps into a GPS and doing routing. They're user-created, so it
depends on whether someone has wandered around your chosen city with a GPS.
Generally IME it's quite good. Have a compare with the Google map of your
chosen area.

Theo
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