Re:Google Maps for Android lose offline Maps - seriously?
by ckozlowski on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @08:11AM
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After moving to Europe, I started using that functionality all of the time. I'll be rather crushed to see it go.
Re:Google Maps for Android lose offline Maps - seriously?
by mtts on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @09:58AM
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I'm from Europe myself, but I'm only marginally crushed to see it go. The feature provided you with an offline map of an area, to be sure, but you couldn't navigate using it as calculating routes is done online. On a small phone screen, figuring out which route to take is not an easy task.
So I used the feature, of course, but only to figure out where I was in very limited geographical areas, in other words, mostly for small hikes.
So do I, because it was impossibly difficult to find.
Otherwise, it was quite a useful feature. For Europeans, on holiday, where they'd otherwise have to pay insanely high roaming charges. Unfortunately Google tends to be rather US-centric, so I guess as far as they were concerned it was a useless feature. Oh well.