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Not a regular Google user, but you could try downloading the offline map for your city. Might improve responsiveness? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+maps+dow

Not a regular Google user, but you could try downloading the offline map for your city. Might improve responsiveness? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+maps+download+offline+maps https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+maps+download+offline+maps

badestrand 7y ago
For me at least it doesn't. Even just typing into the search field lags sometimes so that I have to stop a second to let the characters appear. Searching for a restaurant, clicking on it, reading the information can take whole 10 seconds and be so frustrating. I use Google Maps many years already but it just became so slow in the last year or so. Maybe they just don't support non-high end phones anymore.
- srrr 7y ago
  It's also slow on fast phones and feels like the ui thread is being blocked by something for several 100s of milliseconds. I stopped using google maps because of this. So annoying.
  - timlyo 7y ago
    Do you know a good alternative?
    - srrr 7y ago
      I don't have a good alternative for points of interest (restaurants, ...), but for maps and routing I use https://www.locusmap.eu https://www.locusmap.eu (with offline Locus Maps, Android only). For car navigation Waze, ironically an app from google, is also nice and has full congestion avoidance.
- ensiferum 7y ago
  Same experience on a few years old lower end samsung phone. Rubbish.
klyrs 7y ago
No. In my experience, the first thing that Google Maps does is send your location to Google, run an auction for local advertisers, then download a half dozen images of local "featured" businesses. On my old phone, Maps was snappy enough before they added that antifeature, and things went downhill from there. When I retired that phone last year, it could take over a minute just to show a map (often devoid of street names). Now, I actually don't have a mapping app on my phone. It takes a little planning ahead, but I'm happier to do without.

badestrand 7y ago

For me at least it doesn't. Even just typing into the search field lags sometimes so that I have to stop a second to let the characters appear. Searching for a restaurant, clicking on it, reading the information can take whole 10 seconds and be so frustrating. I use Google Maps many years already but it just became so slow in the last year or so. Maybe they just don't support non-high end phones anymore.

srrr 7y ago
It's also slow on fast phones and feels like the ui thread is being blocked by something for several 100s of milliseconds. I stopped using google maps because of this. So annoying.
- timlyo 7y ago
  Do you know a good alternative?
  - srrr 7y ago
    I don't have a good alternative for points of interest (restaurants, ...), but for maps and routing I use https://www.locusmap.eu https://www.locusmap.eu (with offline Locus Maps, Android only). For car navigation Waze, ironically an app from google, is also nice and has full congestion avoidance.
ensiferum 7y ago
Same experience on a few years old lower end samsung phone. Rubbish.

klyrs 7y ago

No. In my experience, the first thing that Google Maps does is send your location to Google, run an auction for local advertisers, then download a half dozen images of local "featured" businesses. On my old phone, Maps was snappy enough before they added that antifeature, and things went downhill from there. When I retired that phone last year, it could take over a minute just to show a map (often devoid of street names). Now, I actually don't have a mapping app on my phone. It takes a little planning ahead, but I'm happier to do without.