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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by ant6n on Sunday November 25, 2018 @09:03PM (#18530475)
Is that the ugly one where you have to download huge regions to offline just to look at where you at right now?
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by tinix on Sunday November 25, 2018 @10:55PM (#18530937)
Huge? Not so much... OsmAnd uses vector maps, which are very small, compared to "offline" Google Maps tiles.

A couple hundred megabytes for an entire country's road system is not "huge".

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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by jpatokal on Monday November 26, 2018 @12:07AM (#18531208)
Like the mobile app itself, Google Maps offline maps are also vector based.
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by tinix on Monday November 26, 2018 @11:08PM (#18539261)
Then how come an offline region of a national park in Google Maps is a larger download than the entire state in OsmAnd?
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by ant6n on Monday November 26, 2018 @12:41AM (#18531357)
A couple hundred megabytes to show me a map of where I am right now is huge.
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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by tinix on Monday November 26, 2018 @11:07PM (#18539256)
You can use "online" maps and it only downloads the visible region on your screen. It's not a few hundred megs "just to show you where you are" that is utter nonsense.

How about you just actually use the app before you make baseless accusations.

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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by ant6n on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @06:07PM (#18547731)
Well I asked whether this is the app with only offline mode, which would imply large downloads. You said that offline mode is so small that it doesn't matter. I didn't make any 'baseless accusation', I am working off your reply, but still without any 'accusation' at all.

How about actually reading people's messages before claiming they're making 'baseless accusations'.

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Re:Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Go... by jabberthemutt on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:01AM (#18531808)
No, it's the one that supports both local and online maps.
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