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Re:Freeing My Phone from Google by commoner on Sunday June 30, 2019 @07:00PM (#20321110)
Google Maps is marked as dependent on the Google Services Framework, but it clearly doesn't use the same map tile rendering system that MicroG uses. I guess Google Play Services is only used for the logged-in features, which privacy-conscious users would avoid.
Re:Freeing My Phone from Google by 3xblah on Sunday June 30, 2019 @11:43PM (#20322299)
This could be the explanation. I never log in. :)

Irrespective of privacy, I am just not interested in the personalisation or, e.g., reading email on a phone.

Re:Freeing My Phone from Google by commoner on Monday July 01, 2019 @03:42AM (#20323265)
I don't log in either, but Google Maps has an offline navigation feature that's restricted to logged in users:

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838

Instead of using this, I have Here WeGo installed as a backup app for offline navigation:

https://wego.here.com/