Help Google navigation data consumption

[androidmog]

I've had a browse around the forum but posts on this issue seem to be 6 or 7 months old and I was wondering if anything has changed. Most posts seem to sugest data consumption of several megabites for journeys of any significant distance. I used Google navigation for a journey of about 1 hour and 20 mins today. Under "battery use details" in the About Phone settings it tells me that google maps was responsible for 5% of my battery use, that GPS was active for 1 hour and 18 mins, but data sent and recieved was only 320KB. Has anything changed in the way google updates its maps or am I misreading the data.

 

[justiyad]

The new maps 5.0 uses less data than the previous version because they way they are drawing maps.

Here is an article explaining why:
Google Maps Android App Uses 70 Percent Less Data Thanks to Vector Graphics - Softpedia

 

[androidmog]

Thanks for that. I thought something must be different. I was also driving a route that I had navigated a couple of times before, so I guess that it had possibly cached the maps as well.