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There was a feature for Google Maps, on Android; where you could tell it to download and keep a local copy of some small area so it could work without net. As
by h2odragon 3y ago
There was a feature for Google Maps, on Android; where you could tell it to download and keep a local copy of some small area so it could work without net.
As I recall it worked fairly poorly (still tried to load live urls) and wanted to re-download the cache once a day or more. It was not useful for the purpose.
I always took it to be "make as many people happy with the least effort," why continue to polish a product in ways like this that few will use or ever even notice is available?
Much better to spend effort inserting local businesses into peoples driving directions. They might've wanted to stop for coffee even if they told you a different destination.
- vhcr 3y agoOffline maps? That still exists.
- arcza 3y agoYeah, those Maps ads... that's just going to be a feature technology historians will cringe over in 50 years
- solardev 3y agoI still use this feature all the time (we live in a rural area with many pockets of no reception). Yes, it will still try to fetch live data if you have a connection, but if you're out of LTE/5G range it won't. Or you can just turn on airplane mode and it'll always use the offline data. In recent versions, it will also auto-cache tiles along the way if you navigate somewhere far away, even if you don't explicitly tell it to. Both features have saved me from getting lost many times...