| Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | JaSauders | 9/3/11 8:54 PM | I came across the need today for offline GPS usage on my phone due to poor cell phone signal in a certain area I will be frequenting from now on every so often. Having been a huge fan of Google Navigation, I of course began to search around to see if |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | hack.operon | 9/4/11 3:49 AM | Not exactly but .... you can cache a region of map from maps app. find out the route on nav say over home wifi before you start the journey. then it should continue to work even if the signal is lost as long as you don't miss exits and detour. |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | JaSauders | 9/4/11 7:24 AM | Caching doesn't seem like a decent option to me, especially considering it looks like I can only cache 10 mile sections without further choice. The best scenario would be the option to download the entire section of state maps I would need and then b |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | JaSauders | 9/16/11 7:33 AM | I just took a trip down south. I drove nearly 1,000 miles. At one point I hit an area where I didn't have cell phone reception for nearly two hours. I couldn't believe it. I sat there blindly driving watching my phone attempting to function. It took |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | hack.operon | 9/20/11 4:01 AM | JaSauders, offline maps do work. Depending on memory available, you can pull and save multiple 10mile sections for offline use. It is at least as good as paper map as long as your battery lasts. On top of paper map, it has better UI, GPS integration |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | franhirs | 10/13/11 2:09 PM | Offline navigation, and Offline searches are still not available from Google Maps - there is a solution using thir party software - see http://androidflip.com/offline-navigation-google-maps-android-hack-guide/ I just bought my first Android - I had |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | hack.operon | 10/15/11 1:37 AM | @franhirs, oh good, so did nokia's ovi map support offline direction and searches too? Offline works here too but there is no 'search'. Google!!! What a shame! |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | monkeyspunk | 2/5/12 8:36 AM | Thought and hoped you would be able to use in offline mode by now... its a pain .... still no news ? |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | TGG | 3/11/12 1:08 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | offline_to_save_life | 3/14/12 12:41 PM | I convinced my wife that an android phone was all we needed for family vacation in Hawaii. So we left Garmin at home. It was a disaster. How come google as the leader in search/map/mobile leaves such obvious and routine feature out of their product? |
| Re: Google Navigation - Offline Usage Available Yet? | 1ClickIdeas.com | 6/17/12 4:06 AM | Free Google Offline turn-by-turn Navigation option without need to hack/root or install any third party app.. here’s how: http://1clickideas.com/Idea.aspx?ideaId=55 Video demo link too given in above idea. The trick is to use Google Maps to navigate |