Where can I buy a GPS/satnav near St Pancras or Paddington stations?
It's often cheaper to buy a GPS/satnav than renting them from a hirecar company, but unfortunately we'll be travelling from Paris through London to Swansea to pick up the car.
I'd imagine it'd be easier to pick up a cheap GPS/satnav in London than Swansea, so are there stores that I could buy one in near St Pancras or Paddington stations?
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I'm going to propose an alternative solution: install OsmAnd on your phone, then download the data for the countries you're visiting. It's completely free (although donations are welcome) and completely offline, so you don't need any mobile data at all.
Some caveats:
- Download the data before you leave, the files are huge (hundreds of megs).
- OsmAnd's interface is kind of user-hostile, so try it out at home before you leave. Once you figure out how to do things, though, it works well.
- OsmAnd uses free OpenStreetMap data, which isn't quite up to Google standards, but OSM's coverage of the UK is generally excellent.
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I would order one from Amazon and have it send to a Amazon Locker.
(Do not depend on using your phone unless you download all the maps you need, as phone signals are very poor on a lot of UK roads.)
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