I'm flying from Minnesota to Kauai, Hi in the next few days and I would LOVE to be able to track my progress via google maps and GPS.
I used google maps' new feature to be able to save the entire island of Kauai on the phone for use when I dont have internet (on the plane) but I was wondering if I will be able to track the rest of my flight.
When I put my phone into "Airplane" mode and open up google maps, it shows my location via the GPS in Minnesota and there seems to be a low-resolution map of the entire world saved into the computer. If I try to zoom in on California it doesn't update. However if I zoom up on Kauai it does update because I have saved that portion of the map into the phones memory.
Is this how google maps works offline? It has a low resolution of the world saved to memory, and then I can download specific areas of the map I also want saved to memory?
I used google maps' new feature to be able to save the entire island of Kauai on the phone for use when I dont have internet (on the plane) but I was wondering if I will be able to track the rest of my flight.
When I put my phone into "Airplane" mode and open up google maps, it shows my location via the GPS in Minnesota and there seems to be a low-resolution map of the entire world saved into the computer. If I try to zoom in on California it doesn't update. However if I zoom up on Kauai it does update because I have saved that portion of the map into the phones memory.
Is this how google maps works offline? It has a low resolution of the world saved to memory, and then I can download specific areas of the map I also want saved to memory?