Google Offline Maps Trick on iOS

Haeju, ecology, crazier and today can be showing you a really cool trick inside the Google Maps app that will allow you to download offline maps for free on your iPhone, so please stay tuned and enjoy okay. So the first step is to make sure that you have the Google Maps app installed on your iOS device. Now, if you guys don't already have it, you just go to the App Store search. Google Maps in it is a free download. It has to be Google Maps, it can't be the built-in Apple maps that comes pre-installed on all iOS devices, so once you have it downloaded open it up, and I should state before going any farther.

There are a whole bunch of other apps that allow you to download offline maps, but I found that they weren't so user-friendly and they cost a lot of money and stuff like that. So I kind of liked the idea of having all the all in one app. So I can view my offline maps, my online maps. I have my turn-by-turn directions. I have my traffic view all in one app and it just saved some data.

So, if you're out and about you can view maps scroll round maps and doesn't actually have to download the map every single time, so all you have to do is adjust the map on the area that you want to download. In my case, I'll just download this area and I type okay Maps - this is actually a command. If we press search there, it'll actually cache that whole map, and if we go into settings we can actually see that the map size has actually increased. So if we go down find Google Maps over here, it used to be 30 point. 2. Megabytes now is 37.6. Now to be fair, it actually downloaded quite a big area. Let'S go on airplane mode here and now it's switched over to the cached map and you can see.

If I go around the border, you can kind of see where it's fuzzy, that's where it didn't download. So we have this whole area now that it has downloaded. It'S now I can go in this area. I can zoom in. I can see all the streets and stuff now I can't zoom in it doesn't download in 100 % quality. If you wanted to, you can kind of reposition your map, that's what I did for my area. I went in and I saved this map and I moved it over a little bit and saved this map and I was able to get a fairly large area that way, because Google Maps doesn't allow you to download whole areas like other maps. It is a little bit not so user-friendly. It'S kind of a hidden feature that if, if you guys ever want to find this feature in the future, you can go under Tips.

Caching Google Earth Data for Offline Use

I figured out something kind of neat recently and I thought I would share it with the rest of you hunters out there. As you already probably know, Google Earth is a very good scouting tool and I wondered if there was a way to save this stuff offline and use it when you're out in the field - and I figure this out so here's what we're going to do. First, I'm going to DIY hunting maps and they've got a blog and they put some useful things out here. For us, the one I'm interested is importing hunting data into Google Earth and the particular overlay I'm interested in is the Colorado GMU boundaries.

The land ownership is a cool one too, but right now, I'm interested in the GMU boundaries. I'M going to download this it's a relatively small file when I click on this is automatically going to open Google Earth with the game management units for Colorado, highlight it on here or in at North, make sure the labels are showing here too, and I'm going to Choose a relatively small one for an example here, so I'm going to zoom in I'll put the top on unit five okay. So this fills most of my screen. Okay, now to cache the information.

First, I'm going to go to tools, options, select the cache tab, I'm going to clear the memory cache and I'm going to clear the disk cache, because Google Earth will only let me cache two gigabytes of information and then it starts over writing the older stuff. The other thing I'm going to do is click on touring. Here, I'm going to make sure the camera tilt is set to zero. The camera range is set to about three thousand yards.

That'S how high above the earth camera is going to be the speed you're going to control based on the speed of your internet connection, I'm going to set it all the way fast, since I've got a pretty fast connection and then I'm going to click on okay, The next thing I'm going to do is use the path, drawing tool and I'm going to call this G mu5, and I'm going to start here by clicking left clicking on my mouse draw a line across go down, and I'm just going to basically fill this in. To the grid - and I'm not going to do the whole thing, but you get the idea you're going to want to fill in the entire G mu.

This you're interested in once I've got that done, I'm going to say: okay, then I'm going to go down to the bottom here and I'm going to click on play, tour and what's going to happen, is it's going to fly the map that I just did, which Will cache all of the information from that G mu and you can see I've got a certain amount of overlap here, that's okay! Depending on the speed of your internet connection, this could take maybe an hour or so so you might want to go fix yourself.

A sandwich just let your computer go along and you're finished, and I'm just going to stop this partway through what you're going to want to do is disable. Your internet connection probably set it so that these lines aren't across and then just kind of go across here and make sure that you don't have any gaps in your coverage. If so, you're going to need to draw those lines a little closer together and all of the features of Google Earth work, so it's just the 3d options. I didn't disable the cache in here. So it's using is it's actually using areas that I haven't done, but that's how it works. So I hope you find this useful. Happy hunting,