Perhaps some of you are going to take advantage of the Easter holidays to make a getaway with your friends or family to another country where you do not have easy internet access. If that is your case, it will be convenient that you can access applications such as Google Maps so you can know where you are at all times or go to any location despite not having that connection.
Luckily, Google puts at our disposal an interesting trick thanks to which we will be able to use your application regardless of whether or not we have an internet connectiona tool that will be very useful in order to reach our destination without problem or to locate us at all times, since the terminal’s GPS will continue to be 100% operational.
Google Maps offline maps are your perfect ally
In this case, this tool that we are going to show you will give us the possibility of being able to download the map of any part of the world on our mobile phone to be able to use it and navigate without the need to be connected to the internet. Of course, we must bear in mind that the weight of this type of file is usually quite high, so the storage of the smartphone could suffer.
In addition, we find it especially interesting that we download the map of the area where we are going to travel to prevent certain connection interruptions and achieve 100% fluid navigationsomething that usually happens relatively frequently in very remote towns where there are no repeaters that improve the data connection of our device.
That said, the way to download the maps is extremely simple, since we will only have to do the following:
- Open the Google Maps app and, at the top right, access your profile and click on “Offline Maps”
- Now, click on “Select your own map” set the surface of the map you want to download to your mobile and, at the bottom of the screen, tap on “Download”
As you can appreciate, If you access the offline maps section again, you will be able to directly access the map you just downloaded, interact with it and even browse normally without having to be connected to the internet. Of course, you must take into account that updates related to traffic and other elements will not be available, but it is normal if we take into account the loss of that connection.
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