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Finally! Google Maps will be available offline....soon

Bambino
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This has been way too long in coming, but will be very welcome when it happens. http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/28/google-brings-turn-by-turn-directions-to-offline-maps/

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Very useful people are going to love that. slight_smile

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Excellent news...Passed it on to family members...

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Definitely useful for me. I don't use Google maps purely because I seem to travel through places where there is no signal and it takes an age to re-connect if it does losing any sort of capability. I'm guessing I'm going to have to delete something first to store the map!

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Will be very useful for routes & finding the right areas
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And of course the biggest advantage for many users, is they won't have to worry about getting stung by roaming charges, when they're using the app travelling abroad.

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Not just roaming charges, but any data charges, even at home. At the moment I use an app called Map Factor, which I've used for years and has been great. It uses Ordinance Survey Maps and has turn by turn directions. All done offline. There's also Nokia's Here app, which I believe is also very good. Google is pretty late coming to the party, but I will try it when it becomes available and will switch if it's better than what I use now.

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There's also CoPilot. But I've no personal experience of it, and there seems to be a lot of mixed reviews for the iOS version. But it seems to be popular amongst Android users.

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alk.copilot.mapviewer&hl=en_GB

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The app you've linked to is a pay app. It only offers a 7 day free trial.

 

The one I use is totally free 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapfactor.navigator&hl=en

 

The Nokia app is free as well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.maps&hl=en

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after being used to apple maps I was quite surprised that google maps wasn't offline, in rural norfolk where there isn't a signal or a good enough signal in the places you really need maps its going to be very useful.
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