{"id":3889,"date":"2011-07-07T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2011-07-07T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:30:50","slug":"google-maps-now-lets-you-pre-load-data-to-save-on-data-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/google-maps-now-lets-you-pre-load-data-to-save-on-data-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps now lets you pre-load data to save on data charges."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! Although it&#8217;s only in the early stages (hence <a href=\"http:\/\/googlemobile.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/download-map-area-added-to-labs-in.html\">being a Lab product<\/a>) Google Maps on Android will allow you to download map data for local caching in advance.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;while you still have access to WiFi or data coverage, you can open up any Places page in the world, click \u201cMore\u201d to get the Place page menu, and download Google\u2019s maps for a 10-mile radius. This download stores only the base map tiles and the landmarks on the map, so you still need a data connection to see satellite view and 3D buildings, search for Places and get directions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s still not as smooth as Nokia Maps and their country by country local copies, but this is a sensible step for Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! Although it&#8217;s only in the early stages (hence being a Lab product) Google Maps on Android will allow you to download map data for local caching in advance. &#8230;while you still have access to WiFi or data coverage, you can open up any Places page in the world, click \u201cMore\u201d to get the Place page menu, and download Google\u2019s maps for a 10-mile radius. This download stores only the base map tiles and the landmarks on the map, so you still need a data connection to see satellite view and 3D buildings, search for Places and get directions. It&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25],"tags":[2540,1190,2538,2539,2480],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","tag-bandwidth","tag-data","tag-google-maps","tag-local-cache","tag-ovi-maps","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-10J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}