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Google Maps has an excellent offline mode on iOS and Android. I wish Apple Maps had that too.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Google Maps has an excellent offline mode on iOS and Android. I wish Apple Maps had that too.
- int_19h 8y agoIf only it didn't force-expire downloaded maps after a while...
- maxxxxx 8y agoI get updates every 30 days. Do they expire if you don’t update?
- gruez 8y agoYes
- maxxxxx 8y agoThat's stupid. I do offline maps mainly for the times when I don't have a good connection. It makes no sense to lose the maps when you are spending an extended amount of time off-grid. That's exactly when you need offline maps.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoLicense issues. Wouldn't happen if all the data was OpenStreetMap and Google data only.
- sliken 8y agoI suspect very very few people pay to have a smart phone and don't get it on WAN or wifi at least once a month.
- int_19h 8y agoIf I remember correctly, the maps aren't auto-updated by default; you do get notifications, but those are too easy to ignore (esp. since Maps is chatty in general). And then for someone on an expensive metered or slow connection - which is a lot of people in the developing countries - they might not want auto-update at all. So if they didn't notice expiration, they'll find out that their maps aren't there next time they try to navigate offline.
- beefsack 8y agoMy offline maps expire in years, not in months or weeks. I'm not sure that's a huge issue, roads change over time and eventually maps will be so old that they are harmful.
- sliken 8y agoOn my Pixel 3 it's more like a month. All expired in the next few weeks, when I updated one it moved the expiration date to 4 weeks into the future.
- sliken 8y agoI get a popup/notification once a month or so, when on wifi. It just asks if I want an update. There are settings to automatically update offline maps and one to control the automatic downloading of offline maps. Seems pretty reasonable to me, after all roads do change over time. My main motivation is to make nav less bandwidth intensive (I pay per GB with Google FI) and to ensure I have maps even if I don't have a good data connection.
- int_19h 8y agoIt's reasonable to warn and suggest to update. It's not reasonable to not allow to use the old maps just because you don't update - but the Maps app enforces that. It might have something to do with licensing. Either way, OsmAnd doesn't have that problem.
- atomical 8y agoIt's one of those features that makes one think... Why am I being notified about this at all? Can't this be taken care of without my input?