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Re:Live Blog: Google's 'next dimension' of Maps event by tjoff on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @03:57PM (#4075855)
Offline maps is a huge feature. And even with the new additions it seems to be lacking quite bad - to the point of being almost useless.

If I go abroad I wan't to easily download more than just a city. If you ever would try to go on the road abroad the feature as it is now is severely lacking. You more or less have to buy a 3rd party navigator (for about 60 euro) only to get the offline maps feature, which is a bit frustrating.

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Re:Live Blog: Google's 'next dimension' of Maps event by yellowbkpk on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @04:36PM (#4076080)
The announcement of offline maps itself isn't very big: they've had offline maps on Android for at least a year as a labs feature.

Also, it's just for browsing. Searching and routing both require a network connection.

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