Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
by JadeNB on Friday June 29, 2018 @11:00PM
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> The problem is that while Google Maps is very popular, it's not easy to find and use these features.
While talking about hard-to-find-and-use features: sometimes, when I try to get directions, Google offers to download them for me for offline use.
This is frustrating because it only happens sometimes, but I want it almost all the time. There's a relatively easy way to download offline directions for a specific region, but I can't find a way to download offline directions for a specific route (including, presumably, a small fuzz of nearby information—I don't know what it downloads when it offers, since I find this hard to reproduce). Just downloading all the regions involved is impractical for, e.g., cross-country drives.
Do you know how to download offline directions for an arbitrary route, when Google doesn't prompt me to do so?
Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
by kenjackson on Friday June 29, 2018 @03:18PM
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Also Google will use your calendar to populate the list of destinations -- I think.
The problem is that while Google Maps is very popular, it's not easy to find and use these features. I just came across is accidentally one day. Or it's possible Google asked me if I wanted to save if when it detected I do it often. It's been a while so my memory is a bit hazy on the original workflow I took.