[Emoto]

Originally Posted by Gunkk

+1

Went to the Canadian Rockies back in June (sadly without The Mistress) but was able to download google maps of the region in advance for offline use. Worked perfectly.

But, you have to remember to download those maps in advance, right? And, if your phone doesn't have a lot of free space on it, that might be a problem?

Personally, I'm not terribly worried about having the most up-to-date maps in my car. Most differences are minor.

[arpad_m]

Originally Posted by Emoto

But, you have to remember to download those maps in advance, right? And, if your phone doesn't have a lot of free space on it, that might be a problem?

Personally, I'm not terribly worried about having the most up-to-date maps in my car. Most differences are minor.

If you plan a route, it probably preloads some or all of the associated map segments into a cache, which takes up a fraction of the full offline download. At least that's what I'd do and those google folks are very likely much smarter about their technology.

In the Camaro I use the factory navigation nevertheless, and the one time I used google maps (in the wife's car) it did lead me into the wazoo the other day, so it isn't infallible either.

[Emoto]

Originally Posted by arpad_m

If you plan a route, it probably preloads some or all of the associated map segments into a cache, which takes up a fraction of the full offline download. At least that's what I'd do and those google folks are very likely much smarter about their technology.

In the Camaro I use the factory navigation nevertheless, and the one time I used google maps (in the wife's car) it did lead me into the wazoo the other day, so it isn't infallible either.

Yeah, none of it is perfect. I have had Waze create stupid routes as well.

If I were going to travel where there was no cell service and I had no dedicated GPS unit, I would work hard to make very sure that your thinking about local caching was correct.