Getting started
Install the app, download one region, then turn the network off and watch it keep working.
The first ten minutes are the only ones that need a connection. After that, the map is yours.
1. Install the app
Navzeno has not been released. It is not in the app stores, and there is no build to install on any platform yet. Leave an email address on the download page and we will tell you the moment there is one for your platform.
There is no account to create. Nothing to sign in to, now or later.
2. Open it and look at an empty map
On first launch there is no region on the device, so there is nothing to draw: the map says No map downloaded yet. That is expected — the app carries no map of its own and never fetches one on the fly.
There are three tabs along the bottom: Map, Saved and Downloads. Go to Downloads.
3. Download a region
Pick your country, then the province or state you are going to. Each region shows its size, and the ones marked Coming soon have not been built yet. Sizes are large — a small province is tens of megabytes and a big one is a couple of gigabytes — so do this on Wi-Fi, with the charger in.
You can watch the progress. If the download is interrupted, it resumes where it stopped rather than starting over.
4. Wait for it to be verified
At the end of a download the file is checked against the hash published with it, which takes a moment on a large region. This is not a formality: a region is only installed once it verifies, so you never end up navigating on a file that arrived half-corrupted. If verification fails, the file is discarded and you download it again.
When it finishes, the map draws.
5. Prove it works — turn the network off
This is worth doing once, at home, so you trust it on the road:
- Put the phone in airplane mode.
- Pan and zoom the map. It draws.
- Search for a town or a lake. It finds it.
- Pick a destination and plan a route. It plans.
- Start navigating. You get turns, distances and voice prompts.
Nothing about that used a connection, and nothing about it will on the Highway 11 stretch north of North Bay either.
6. Learn the four things you will actually use
- Search — find a place by name.
- Nearby — find fuel, a campground or a toilet around you.
- Routing and avoidances — plan the trip.
- Turn-by-turn — drive it.
And when you find somewhere you want back: Favourites and GPX.