| Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | Daniel.M | 6/27/12 3:33 PM | Hi Google Maps for Android users, We've recently released an update to Google Maps for mobile on Google Play. With this release you'll be able to: - Save maps for use offline in certain countries For more information, check out our YouTube video on h |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | treebles | 6/27/12 7:19 PM | What do you mean by "Save maps for use offline in certain countries" It seems that we can save tiles for offline use in pretty much any country with the Maps Labs version of pre-cached map areas. I hope Google has not taken a good thing, the Maps Lab |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | Tony K | 6/28/12 12:11 AM | Yes. I've just downloaded the latest v6.9.0 update for Android and it REMOVES offline maps here in Ireland anyway. What's the story Google? Can we revert to the previous version? Or when will offline maps be enabled (as advertised) in Ireland? |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | world-in-union | 6/28/12 1:27 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | world-in-union | 6/28/12 1:29 AM | I'm extremely disappointed. I had expected nothing less than full offline navigation, with maps for entire countries. This present "solution" is just not enough. Go Google, you can do it! |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | nekrosoft13 | 6/28/12 11:25 AM | Fix the damn gps. Been broken for the past 4-5 updates. |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | RSchalie | 6/29/12 5:23 AM | At the moment the maximum size for an off-line map appears to be around 80MB. So, for a maximum of 6 off-line maps, that would be less than 500 MB. Any reason for this limit? Space requirements could be handled by allowing off-line maps to be stored |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | nicc00 | 6/29/12 8:49 AM | THIS UPDATE IS A JOKE GOOGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am traveling to Italy soon and I can't even download an offline map for the city of Milan or Venice. That's the first thing. The second thing is that there still isn't a way for me |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | Daniel.M | 6/29/12 12:03 PM | As it has graduated from a feature in Labs, you will no longer have access to the pre-cache lab. Offline maps from some countries are not currently available. However, you can take certain maps from more than 150 compatible countries offline with Goo |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | bbbbbbbbbbbbbaaa | 6/29/12 1:43 PM | Typical google relase. Barely a beta version. Let the users test it... then in 6-12 months put out an acceptable version. Why on earth one cant save to SD is beyone me. Why on earth one cant download any map from any country is beyond me. Why |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | Lorenzo Zoil | 6/30/12 8:21 AM | Daniel, did you even review this before putting your name to it? Your team have utterly fouled up a fantastic Labs feature, and created a piece of bloatware which should make you hang your head in shame. It's slow, it's no longer intuitive, it cras |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | Thien Thanh | 7/2/12 12:00 PM | Sorry for using http://translate.google.com to translate from Vietnamese into English for this comment. I used the "make available offline" but found that it is not effective and have to wait very long if you want to download a large area. I have no idea wh |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | VashekCZ | 7/4/12 9:54 AM | Daniel,Please understand this is a big disappointment to a huge number of users, and you (not just you personally) are making it worse by being closed about it. Why couldn't you link to a list of "compatible" countries straight from the initial annou |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | naxian13 | 7/4/12 1:59 PM | Very disappointing update! No availability in offline maps for many "Big" countries(Ireland,Italy,Spain, Greece,Portugal etc)!!No SD card saving..!! Not a proper answer to Apple's new maps...FIX it!!You are Google!!It's unacceptable!! |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | Lorenzo Zoil | 7/4/12 2:14 PM | Well, I have found a solution that works for me. I downloaded and installed v6.8.1 on my HTC Desire using an APK file. Labs version of map caching works perfectly, everywhere in the world I've tried it so far. That's another app I'll never update a |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | Tony K | 7/4/12 2:59 PM | Can you provide a link please to where you got v6.8.1? Does your phone need to be jail-broken? |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | Lorenzo Zoil | 7/5/12 10:02 AM | I won't post a link as I don't want to get in trouble for copyright infringement. I searched for google maps 6.8.1, and at least 5 sites appeared with a free APK file download, about 6.8mb in size. I used Play Store to uninstall all maps upgrades, |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | BillikenHawkeye | 7/7/12 11:55 AM | Hi I downloaded Version 6.9.0 on my AT&T Motorola Atrix (MB860) using Android 2.3.6 and the GPS will not work in this new version. GPS does not find my location. I uninstalled and used the factory installed version of Google Maps (5.8) and the GPS wo |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | mcdave2010 | 7/9/12 2:33 AM | There are no offline maps for Thailand or Singapore. Could someone from Google explain whether these will be added soon? I'm going in a couple of weeks. This is a real shame as I used cached maps heaps overseas and all the countries I'm going to this |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | ski4404 | 7/9/12 11:00 AM | Hi Daniel, I've recently traveled through parts of Europe and I think I really put the offline maps to the test for it's intended use case(s). Here is some feedback... Sadly, I found the offline maps feature is really not up to the task. Before, |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | penguin64 | 7/9/12 9:08 PM | @Daniel.MQuestions - Which countries or have we been potentially wasting data plans ? - No joy attempting to cache maps in the UK. Is it no joy because the UK is unsupported or because of temporary fault ? Feature set - No ability to cahe to SD ? Re |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | ptosiani | 7/10/12 9:31 AM | I just added a section about offline use of google maps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Google_Maps_for_Mobile#Offline_Version Why don't we start to put together a list of countries that are not available. |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | treebles | 7/10/12 10:04 AM | ptosiani, Google already released the list of countries where offline maps is available. http://support.google.com/gmm/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2650347 |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | mcdave2010 | 7/10/12 2:09 PM | I find it strange they they don't have major countries like Spain, Italy, Thailand, Malaysia.... but they do have Niue, Burkina Faso, Cocos Islands...Why? |
| Re: Google Maps for Android - 6.9 update - Offline Maps | treebles | 7/10/12 2:16 PM | Countries where Google gets their map data from third party sources are not supported for offline maps in the new integrated version of pre-cached area. Not sure why, probably something legal, Google has not elaborated on the reasons. |
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