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Android Google Maps offline caching

Jul 8th

Posted by EnvyAndroid in Tips

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Google Maps for Android just got updated to version 5.7.0 and a new labs feature caught my attention; “Download map area“.

I have been wanting such a feature for a long time for Google Maps.

There are other ways to get offline maps, you have brut, MapDroyd and others.

But this seems promising!

Enabling the offline cache labs feature

You can enable the feature in Google Maps by hitting the menu button -> More -> Labs -> And then check the Download map area feature.

Offline caching enabled

To cache a Map area

  1. Long press in the map
  2. Click the Address that pops up (the bubble) to go to the more options view.
  3. And then choose Download map area (WiFi connection preferred!)
The app will then cache an area of the map, but only the regular map, no satellite map.
If you now disable your internet connection, you can still zoom around in the map!

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Opera Maps extension – Support page

Jun 4th

Posted by EnvyAndroid in Opera Extensions

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Hi

This is the landing page for the Google Maps extension for Opera.

You can download the extension here.

The extension allows you to select a street address, and hit the button, to get a full dynamic Google Map for the location.

Google Maps extension for Opera

I just (11 June) submitted an update to go through the review process, the update includes:

  • user interface improvement.
  • editbox to change the selected address or just do a regular map search.
  • type or change the address in the editbox, and just hit enter to search.
  • latitude and longitude koordinates should work.

The new interface now looks like this:

The new version 2.0

 

Street view and all other map features also work:

Street view

 

If you have questions, feedback, bugs etc, feel free to report them here.

More information to come.

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