Around the world with a smartphone
Google Maps, free GPS and WiFi have changed budget travelling forever, but it doesn't mean you have to depend on the Internet
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THE best travel tip, if you don't know it already, is this: GPS, the Global Positioning System that can tell you where you are through the Google Maps app on a smartphone, does not require a data connection.
It is free. Funded by the US government, sure, but free for the rest of us.
This means you will never willingly get lost again in a foreign city. You will always know how to get to where you want to go. But you need to make sure you have downloaded a map of the area you are planning to travel to, before you set off.
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