Offline maps also include POI data like opening hours.Īpple Maps downloaded to your iPhone will also be available on the Apple Watch, when the paired iPhone is nearby. You can also simple pan and zoom around the map in the Maps app, with no waiting for things to load. As long as you stay inside the bounds of the downloaded map, you can get turn-by-turn directions entirely offline for driving, walking, cycling, for transit. With Apple Maps on iOS 17, you can now save a region of the map locally on your iPhone. If you often travel through cellular deadspots, especially applicable to some highways and suburban areas, having maps available offline is a nice safety net so that you know you won’t get lost. Offline maps are useful when travelling abroad, but also at home when you can’t always rely on a network being available. Apple Maps now lets you download a maps region to store on your device, and use entirely offline for navigation and routing without an internet connection. That feature gap is now closed with iOS 17. Google Maps and others have let you download maps to be available offline for a long time.
Anybody with an Android 1.6 or higher device can download 5.0 right now for free, but the 3D and offline features are 2.0+ only.Apple Maps has improved leaps and bounds over the last decade, but one area it has always been lacking is offline use. The other thing these low-bandwidth vector maps enables is offline caching of maps, specifically your most frequently visited locations, and entire trips that have been routed in Navigation, including potential reroutes. It's not quite as flashy as Google Earth, but it looks a whole lot more useful.
The vectors also enable something else a whole lot sexier: a two finger swipe can "tilt" the map and now you've got a 3D view of the landscape. Most importantly, Google is now using vector graphics for its maps, which are scalable and much lighter weight than the traditional stitched together images used in most Google Maps incarnations. Google Maps 5.0 for Android might seem similarly earth shattering, but it marks a significant change to the basic technology of Google Maps. Google's never been afraid to "blow it out" with Google Maps, most famously with its inclusion of Navigation, which knocked the legs out from under a lot of the GPS device and navigation app market.
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