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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by fhdkweig on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:03PM (#39471502)
agreed. On Google Maps app, there is a feature called "offline maps" which allows a user to select a rectangle on a the map and download all the street info inside it. A whole US state can fit in less than a few hundred megabytes. I have all the city I live in downloaded so I can go on walks without needed to use my data plan.
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by jader201 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:45PM (#39472938)
That's assuming you have it on and updated before you hit the road.

I think it's off by default, and I'm guessing most people haven't thought to turn it on, or are even aware of it.

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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by patmorgan23 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:52PM (#39473055)
I'm pretty sure maps caches the data around you if you've used it somewhat recently. It saves Google bandwidth too.
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by jader201 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:11PM (#39473314)
I’m not so sure.

Anecdotally, I’ve made it to a remote destination using Maps, then hopped back in the car an hour later (with no signal), and it couldn’t load anything. This seems to happen quite often.

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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by Scoundreller on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:22PM (#39474150)
Maps used to expire after 30 days (no idea why), and the auto-updating while on wifi wasn't great unless you were in the app forcing it update. Nowadays they last 365d.
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by a_gnostic on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:34PM (#39471903)
Not as useful as back when google maps required a 5GB download IIRC
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by herbst on Friday February 23, 2024 @03:22AM (#39478201)
Downloaded a whole island yesterday. Was 40mb. That's a lot better now, has less resolutions packed in tho.
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