![]() ![]() Other navigation apps out there, including the software from HERE, allows you to download offline maps for an entire country. You’d first have to figure out which route you want to go and then manually download the maps for each region just to make sure Google Maps covers the area. It goes without saying this isn’t at all a convenient workaround, and just imagine how difficult it’d be to download all the necessary maps before leaving on a journey and passing through the borders of several countries. You’ll have to get the maps for a specific region and then repeat the process until you cover the entire land you want to save offline. In other words, if you want to download offline maps for an entire country, this isn’t possible. More specifically, whenever you want to download offline maps in Google Maps, the application restricts the process to a limited area – you can pinch in and out to reduce and increase the area to download, but even so, you can’t retrieve large maps anyway. As a result, the support for offline maps wouldn’t make much sense, so the feature isn’t available (you can still use Waze without an Internet connection, and we detailed the entire process here).īut while the offline maps in Google Maps are such a great feature, they come with one major drawback: a poorly-implemented downloading system that makes getting the offline maps quite a major pain in the neck. However, given it relies on real-time data received from other mobile devices and drivers on the road, Waze needs a permanent Internet connection. The offline maps in Google Maps are what prevent so many users from switching to other navigation apps, which in some regards, offer even more advanced capabilities.įor example, Waze is an excellent piece of software when it comes to finding a faster route to a specific destination. ![]() In other words, this feature comes in super handy when driving in a tunnel, in regions with spotty cellular reception, or simply when you don’t want to use mobile data for the whole thing. With offline maps, the application can continue offering step-by-step guidance to a user-defined destination even when an Internet connection is missing. ![]()
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