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Offline routing works? Every time that I've previously tried offline routing on downloaded maps it spun for a while and then gave up with a connection error. I was under the impression that the only point of offline maps was for looking up locations, not for navigating to them.


Get Here WeGo, Nokia's maps app. You can download whole states/countries to use offline (it's all vector data so it's not too huge), and traffic data is optional. I've been using it since the Nokia N9 days.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.m...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/here-wego-city-navigation/id95...


FYI this app has been sold by Nokia to a consortium of German carmakers (Audi, BMW and Daimler).


Yes it works in Google Maps. But only for moderately short drives (say, an hour or so).


Took a 9+ hour drive today, started offline and Google was able to navigate and plot it just fine. We had downloaded the maps for the area ahead of time.

Guessing maybe it outpaces what is downloaded when it starts having problems?




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