Yes, Google Maps works offline-but it takes a “pre-game”. Learn how to guide even without internet connection.
Perhaps it has already been left without mobile data, or perhaps without a network signal while driving. Because there is a way to avoid it. It offers offline functionality that ensures that drivers can keep the course even when they are completely disconnected from the internet.
It allows users to browse in pre-selected and previously unloaded areas to the mobile phone.
Although not as comprehensive as the online version – it only offers driving directions and excludes real -time traffic data, public transport routes or on foot – is still able to provide enough guidelines to help users reach their destinations.
How to Download Maps Maps
There are two ways to unload an offline map: selecting a Maps (PE Porto) zone or making your own custom zone selection.
You should first open the Google Maps application on an Android or iOS device while connected to the internet and with session started on your Google account.
To unload a specific zone:
1. Search the zone you want to unload
2. In the window that comes up with photos and the name of the place, there is a button with three points and a “more” at the end. Clicking there, jumps an option that says “transfer offline map”.
3. At this stage, you can also customize the area you want to discharge. Then wait, and when you are, you’ll already have the discharged offline map.
To make your personalized map:
1. Open the application and click on your profile photo
2. Go to “offline maps”
3. Click on “Select your own map”
4. By adjusting the rectangular selector over the desired region, such as a city or rural area, it can discharge it directly to your device.
The application displays the amount of storage required and the download begins as soon as the area is selected. Downloads must be made by Wi-Fi unless mobile data is activated for this purpose in the settings.
Iphone users have an alternative method: search for a location and touch the “Download” button in the local information window.
And now, how to access, see and use the offline maps?
After the map is discharged, it appears in the “Offline” section for future access. To get there just click on your profile photo in the upper right corner.
“You can store maps on your device or SD card. If you change the way it keeps maps, you have to transfer them again,” says Google.
Although offline maps show no real -time conditions or alternative routes, they are a last potentially useful resource in areas with little or no mobile coverage or emergency situations. April 28 proved it: who was on the road and didn’t know the way, possibly had a solution offline maps a solution.
Still, Google warns that “it cannot transfer offline maps in some countries or regions due to contractual limitations, language support, address formats or other reasons.”
