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Re:Organic Maps by hedora on Friday September 01, 2023 @11:41PM (#37358396)
I like this app, and would love to see it succeed, but the offline app flow is a huge downgrade from my map app of choice (Here We Go; formerly Nokia Maps).

I just tell it what countries (or states / regions) to download, and it downloads them. Then, if cell coverage will be spotty, I tap the “work offline” slider, which disables traffic, but also means that search is on device and instant.

This is how literally every map program I used before MapQuest worked. I don’t understand why modern interfaces don’t support this.

For reference, California’s maps (including business listings) are 856 MB. The total map size for all the regions I have taken this phone to is under 3GB.

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Re:Organic Maps by urgent_skittle on Saturday September 02, 2023 @08:23PM (#37366635)
> I just tell it what countries (or states / regions) to download, and it downloads them.

This is exactly how Organic Maps works. You don't _have_ to zoom in on every region you plan on visiting to download it, you can just go into the menu and select a whole country or parts of it.

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