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Microsoft is killing offline maps in the Maps app
- deafpolygon 3y agoAnother useful feature killed off.
- jiehong 3y agoIt’s interesting to see that Apple has just introduced offline maps in Apple Maps this year.
- throwuxiytayq 3y agoBut it’s not like PMs in FAANG are effectively making random decisions, nooo, don’t replace them with a LLM nononon
- unixhero 3y agoTime to go back to an appliance gps in the car then? Ms Maps? Who in the world uses anything else than Google Maps and Waze for navigation?
- zuhsetaqi 3y ago> Ms Maps? Who in the world uses anything else than Google Maps and Waze for navigation? In the last at least 5 years I never used Google Maps or Waze for navigation.
- unixhero 3y agoGo on then, state what you use
- hulitu 3y agoA lot of people. Google maps was not offline and Waze was not.
- pbjtime 3y agoMicrosoft has a maps app?
- TowerTall 3y agowell, goodbye Microsoft Maps. I use you exclusively in offline mode as I as often in areas with no connection. Time to find another solution. From my point of view if find it very hard to come up with any valid reasons why to remove this feature. Maybe its just a change for the sake of changing, which is stupid
- PopAlongKid 3y agoI still have a copy of MS Streets & Trips for which support ended in 2013. Fortunately, streets and geography don't change very rapidly. I've installed my licensed copy of S&T on several computers purchased since 2013, but I wonder when they will stop providing a verification service for my license.
- pcdoodle 3y agoOrganic maps will install under linux and is fantastic. I like using a larger screen for planning stuff ahead.
- jacknobody 3y agoIt's time for me to prepare for internet outages with hard copies, not only of maps but all important reference material.
- rodent_rodeo 3y agoI bought some books of maps of the entire continent I’m on and put them in our cars. Seems like a reasonable emergency thing to do. I’m under no illusion that if some catastrophe happens that takes down the internet and or GPS that we will necessarily survive but would hate to die knowing I could have spent an extra $20-40 bucks and lived.
- soupbowl 3y agoI do the same also. Local maps books in my area have a lot more roads and very specific off road/service road Information that online maps don't have which is also handy in emergencys. Being evacuated due to forest fires a few times these maps were very helpful to me.
- CamperBob2 3y agoIf GPS ever goes down, getting lost will be the least of your worries.
- workfromspace 3y ago
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- postingawayonhn 3y agoMicrosoft has a maps app?
- wildrhythms 3y agoYeah and the arial imagery is ancient, like many years old, even in popularly viewed areas like NYC. Even Microsoft forgot about this product.
- pjmlp 3y agoYes, and if you want to know a tragic fact, when they started the UWP to WinUI 3.0/WinAppSDK migration, that wasn't part of the initial efforts. So as MAUI decided to have their Windows backend built on top of WinUI 3.0/WinAppSDK, their Maps component on Windows is actually a Web widget wrapping Bing maps instead of the OS provided Maps component. This shows how well the GUI civil wars are going in Redmond.
- gumballindie 3y agoThey want you be online at all times so they can harvest your data, to built that sweet scary ai that will destroy the world any time soon now.
- wkat4242 3y agoOh well. OsmAnd is much better anyway.