Ok, so I downloaded a map covering central London for offline viewing, but how does one view it? In the previous version of Maps, it was to be found under "my maps", but there is no such thing in the new version. If I try to use Maps whilst offline when I zoom in on the area, it doesn't resolve.
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Help How to view a cached map offline in Maps?
- Thread starter Lefthand
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If you've cached the area successfully you'd see this map area when you're offline.
But when you zoom in you won't get all the details as being online, small streets' names got lost and buildings lost their 3D view.
You know also that you won't get search or navigation calculations while you're offline?
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Thank you for that, yes I'm aware of the fact that you lose some detail offline, but in my case, it's really low res, like what you get when you first launch Maps and it takes a while for all the detail to come to full resolution. It's pretty unusable! Perhaps downloading the whole of central London was too much? It did say the map was successfully downloaded, or cached.
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Just tried it ... you're right ... I got big parts of the cached area only as low res, as rectangular shapes, seems to be tiles.Thank you for that, yes I'm aware of the fact that you lose some detail offline, but in my case, it's really low res, like what you get when you first launch Maps and it takes a while for all the detail to come to full resolution. It's pretty unusable! Perhaps downloading the whole of central London was too much? It did say the map was successfully downloaded, or cached.
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If you need maps of central London then I take it you don't need it for car navigation 
Have a look at the app MapsWithMe with is great offline maps for download.
Some map details are better as on Maps and the app has also a good online search.
Have a look at the app MapsWithMe with is great offline maps for download.
Some map details are better as on Maps and the app has also a good online search.
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That's exactly it, just big tiles, hardly any detail! So it's not just me then, very disappointed with this new version of Maps!
I'll give MapsWithMe a go, thanks for pointing it out to me!
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If you want fully functional Google Maps the way we liked them, you may consider rooting your Nexus 7, removing Maps 7.4 and re-install Google Maps 6.14.4 from its apk file. Google Maps 7.4 is still a half-baked, half-functional product (still missing: terrain mode, zoom buttons, scale, Labs...) See ="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2408280"]
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There are a number of mapping apps that store their map data locally. I personally use a paid app called CoPilot Live which allows you to select the maps to download to your device depending on what part of the globe you are dealing with.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alk.copilot.eumarket.premiumeumaj&hl=en
Just noticed something interesting, the USA version of CoPilot Live is $9.99 in Play while the EU version is $29.99. Not sure why the EU version is so much more expensive.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alk.copilot.eumarket.premiumeumaj&hl=en
Just noticed something interesting, the USA version of CoPilot Live is $9.99 in Play while the EU version is $29.99. Not sure why the EU version is so much more expensive.
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