I have a ITouch that is wifi capable. Does anyone know of a good GPS app that works with wifi only devices. I have the mifi so I can stay connected via wifi.

 

Just enter GPS in the search field in ITunes. Some are 'lite" versions and are free or you can buy the full versions.

 

Motion X GPS Drive is excellent. I'm not sure how you would be able to use it because you don't have 3G service on an iPod Touch? How would you be able to use any GPS on a Touch? I'd love to learn, thanks.

 

When connected to a mifi, the touch will get the position from the mifi.

There is also a Magellan cradle with a gps chip.

 

The Ipod Touch will only grab a GPS location when it logs onto a Wi-Fi network. Meaning that simply finding an access point wont do diddly. It would need an IP address. (And you won't get one if its secured, so only wide open AP's will do you any good) and I doubt seriously that you would find enough AP's on your travels AND be traveling slow enough to connect AND download enough data to get a fix, and then only if it can get geographical information from that network or if it has been registered with the service that the mapping program uses.

You would be much better off buying a stand alone GPS, or buying an iPhone. I have an iPod Touch, and iPhone and a stand alone GPS. Do some googling on how a touch gets its GPS data on the mapping app.

 

Thought it was a type O but you did it twice...what's a "mifi"? I've never heard of that. Thanks

 

I stumbled upon this a few months ago while I was looking for a new GPS unit myself.
There are a couple of GPS manufacturers that sell a cradle that your iPod snaps into and the cradle is the receiver for the gps signal, all the iPod does, essentially, is act as the display screen.
You shouldn't need a WiFi signal for this since the cradle is receiving signals from the GPS satellites.
There are a couple of problems, with the cost of the cradle from the GPS manufacturer and the cost of the App from iTunes combined, it ends up being more expensive than a new standard GPS unit.
Also, the reviews on their functionality were not so impressive.
I would have liked to have gotten that much more usage from my iPod as well but it just didn't add up for me.

 

MiFi is a small box. that acts like a WiFI but is portable. It uses the same Towers signals as Cell Phones for it's connection.

 

my touch 4g has satalite gps.uses alot of batt and screen size is the next problem..not water proof...ect

 

Wow, that's some good **** right thar! lol Thanks!