App To Download Maps For Offline Use
Celena Sessler
I have gone into the projects that I have completed and deselected the toggle switch for offline maps but this appears to have no effect and when I look to add another offline project my total is still as it was.
Hi Murray,
Yes, that is the way DD told me to remove the offline maps. Make sure you turn off Available off line option, then delete app and reinstall. I have a lot of offline maps cached and I need to delete them as I go along. Flight plans and data are not effected as its held on the DD server. Offline option is in your IOS device. Give your ios device time to sync before re installing. Hope this helps.
Sorry to hear about your maps not un-syncing from the offline status. Some devices have a hard time un-caching flight plans than other.@Kapchaking is correct, you will want to uninstall the app but make sure to allow enough tie for the flight plans to sync. I hope you find that helpful
Just upgraded to iOS17 and checked the new offline maps feature. The thing I like is that you get transit in offline mode. The thing I don't like is that there is no search option. You can browse offline maps. It is almost useless. If you are visiting some city (that you downloaded for offline use) and want to go to some street, how would you find it?
If you want more, you can also set up your own rendering, and use it with Marble. But that would require a quite heavy computer, and it's not documented how to achieve it in Marble (because they are afraid people will use it to display proprietary maps).
If you have Marble installed you'll have an "/usr/share/kde4/apps/marble/data/maps/earth/openstreetmap" directory with an "openstreetmap.dgml" file in it. In there you can see how the tile servers are configured.
Map layer/image to cover across all the streets, buildings on this earth is going to be massive amount of data. To make the maps working with full function, zooming in them show new image (map) etc as we are online, the app is always reload the image (map layer) based on the interaction by the app users. This is not a story specific to Appsheet.
Unless the unexpected new technology is introduced by someone genius, it sounds difficult to pre-load all the map layer across the globe so that all the map feature become functional during off line.
I certainly agree that on a global scale it is essentially impossible. However the offline capability within Google Maps does allow for an extensive amount of map data to be downloaded. So realistically even just allowing the same capability as within native Google Maps would be sufficient.
Are there any geocaching apps that I can have it download like a 50 mile radius of my house with all maps and geocaches? Seems like most places we geocache, there is no cell signal. The official geocache app looks like it allows me to download individual geocaches for offline, but then I have to plan ahead and know which ones were going to look for before we head out Usually when we geocache, it's spontaneous. We are walking a trail just for something to do and then we think oh maybe we should geocache but then look at our phone and have no signal.
Since you are a premium member, you can create Lists covering the areas where you might regularly be out and about in your local area, or where you're going on vacation, etc. Your Lists are available through the official Geocaching apps, and you can save all the cache information and maps for offline use.
There are others too. On Android, Locus Map works fully offline with maps and caches pre-loaded (personal experience). On iOS, Cachly is same (so my iPhone friends tell me). Both are full-featured caching apps.
I also attempt to use The App when I've forgotten to download caches. But The Official App really wants to get back online a lot. I seem to keep clicking on things that don't work offline, including maps that I expected would have pre-loaded with individual caches. So I just plan for that thing to live online where it's happy. I mainly use it for street routing anyway.
Viajero Perdido mentioned "Locus Maps". I have two US States maps downloaded for that, which makes it work a lot like my Garmin, as "having it all offline" goes. It can be configured for offline street routing. That App comes in handy at times.
"Geooh Go" saves things offline in a different way than The Official App does. It's worth a look, to see if the Maps situation is sufficient. But both Locus Maps and Geooh Go are Android Apps, and the OP was not specific about phone types.
I ran into this problem Sunday. I was driving home crossing the Cascades mountains and notice the road up to an area with a cache I had been wanting to get was open after two years of closure due to forest fires and hazzards due to the fires. Well I got close but hit some snow on the road so turned around. However, I was still off the downloaded map area of the cache and could not tell if there was an alternate road to get to the cache. I got home to an internet connection and realized my mistake. Had the app stored a wider area of the map I might have gotten closer. Previously I had stored a few caches along the way as bread crumb waypoints to store the maps along the way but I guess I deleted those. A better solution is the store details of large regions.
I am trying to plot maps using Cartopy offline. I've found this post:Location of stored offline data for cartopyHowever, after changing cartopy.config['data_dir'] to 'C:/...' where the downloaded files are located, when I try to draw coastlines, it still wants to download the map.
iOS 17, just use my saved maps when I'm in that area without impacting my data rates. If I venture outside of that area, please use the data to populate a new map. Why is "only use offline maps" even an option?
The "Only Use Offline Maps" setting is designed for situations where you have a limited or no data connection. When this setting is enabled, Apple Maps will only use the offline maps that you have downloaded, even if you are connected to Wi-Fi or cellular data. This can be useful if you are traveling to an area with poor or no internet coverage, or if you want to avoid using any data for navigation.
Edit: Additionally, I believe that off-line maps is not used whatsoever when online maps is on. The only current benefit to offline maps is that it will automatically switch to offline maps only when your phone detects that you have no cellular connection. But even with 1 bar of super weak connection, it will still try to use online maps so even that aspect is not very seamless.
Adnan UL Haque Thanks Micheal, but after few hours of research I am still unable to find how to reload prefetch map back into MP (while offline)?. I dont see and KML/KMZ file inside gmapcache which I can easily reload.
This page uses v9.7.0 of the Mapbox Maps SDK for Android and v6.4.1 of the Mapbox Maps SDK for iOS. A newer version of the SDK is available. Learn about the latest version in the Maps SDK offline documentation for Android and iOS.
With the Maps SDK for iOS v5.3.0 and higher and the Maps SDK for Android v8.3.0 and higher, there is no upper limit to the number of tiles your users can download. You may raise the default 6,000 offline tile limit to whatever value you want, and your offline tile usage will be billed as Vector Tiles API or Raster Tiles API requests. Resources downloaded for offline use are not included in monthly active user (MAU) billing. Since you are responsible for the cost of all the tiles your users download, you may want to set an appropriate offline tile limit. Visit the offline maps pricing documentation for iOS and Android for more information.
The Maps SDKs for iOS and Android also automatically cache tiles and other resources that are requested during normal use of the app. These resources are stored in the same database as offline resources, but unlike offline resources, they are limited to 50 MB of space. When this limit is reached, the least-recently used resources that aren't shared by an offline region will be evicted to make room for newer resources.
With the Maps SDKs for iOS and Android, you can create offline maps, access a list of offline maps stored on the device, and remove offline maps that are no longer needed. When managing your offline regions, remember:
If the device has network connectivity, the Maps SDK for Android or iOS will make periodic network requests to revalidate cached tiles and other resources if the Cache-Control or Expires HTTP response headers have expired. If an updated resource is available, it will replace the older version in the offline database.
When the SDK automatically updates offline map tiles, the offline region is not re-download from scratch. The offline tile update process is the same process as with regular map tiles: The map tile's only downloaded if there's a new version of that tile.
An app can download multiple regions for offline use, but the total offline download is capped at a maximum tile count (or "ceiling") across all downloaded regions. The tile ceiling is 6,000 tiles. The total tile count in an offline region is the sum of the tiles downloaded from each source in your style. For example, if you would like to download a region covering 10 tiles and your style includes one vector tile source and one raster tile source (see sample JSON below), the resulting tile count would be 20.
To estimate the number of tiles needed to download a region offline, use our offline tile count estimator. Note that this only generates an estimate of the number of tiles needed to load a defined region offline. The size of the download will vary according to the location being downloaded and the style being used in your application.
The Maps SDKs for Android and iOS do not limit the download speed of offline regions, nor do they limit the amount of disk space that may be used by offline resources. The effective limits will depend on the storage capacity of the mobile device and the speed of the network to which it is connected.
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