Wise Pilgrim - here is more information on my comments regarding only seeing the names of nearby locations when I was online. First, I started in Lisbon in mid-May and used Organic Maps for my navigation. I was not comfortable yet with Wise Pilgrim for navigation. As I progressed in my journey, I found that with OM, it was easier for me at the end of the day to have programmed in my destination for the night, rather than the city it was in. It was no fun searching around for my lodging when I was dead tired. I then started using Wise Pilgrim at the end of the day when I entered my final town. I grew to use it more on the way if I was thirsty as it showed the Pingo Doce and Aldi stores where I could get fresh orange juice for a pick me up. It seemed that when I brought it up, the offline map pointed out my location, but the names of the nearby businesses where not there until I turned on cellular. At that point it did exactly what I hoped for. Maybe I just needed more patience, and the names would have appeared. After meeting my daughters in Porto, they used Wise Pilgrim for our navigation. It was especially good crossing from Vila do Conde to the Central Way. I asked them and they said they had cellular service on all of the time. I was using a Portuguese Sim, so was trying to preserve my celluar allotment. They were using their AT&T US plans with the daily add on for Europe, so having unlimited usage, they saw no need to not be online. Sorry I can't give you more detail. One thing that would help with Wise Pilgrim is having a message when the maps are downloaded. You get a message that it will take a good while for the download, but I did not see anything showing that the download had completed. I did a download in the US, but when I got to Portugal, I got a message that I had to download the map. I assume the first download had failed, but since I started it and came back to my phone a half hour later, I had assumed it had completed successfully. A popup that the download had completed either successfully or failed would make the process easier or at least more informative. Overall, we were very happy with Wise Pilgrim. As the person who started this thread, I too had a career in IT, but a smart phone is very different from what I worked with. A tutorial would be great. Maybe there is one out there, but I did not see it. On a recent thread, there was a tutorial for Buen Camino. I found it to be very helpful in understanding that app, but unfortunately I had completed the Portuguese two months before seeing it. After seeing how much more info is available within your app, I will definitely use it on the Norte.
