Re: Download Google Maps For Offline Use
Hilke Mcnally
With offline maps in iOS 17 and later, you can use Maps for information and navigation even when you don't have a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. Offline maps include details like hours and ratings on places, turn-by-turn directions for driving, walking, cycling, or riding transit, and estimated arrival times.
Offline maps do not sync across your devices. Offline maps are only available in select areas. An offline map for a specific region is not intended for use in all regions. Features vary by country and region.
Hi - yes there are check marks for all the layers. Maybe this helps: I just edited my post to add that when I create the offline area through the app, I am able to edit. But I'd rather create it in Field Maps Designer.
There can be two reasons. When the map was published from ArcMap or ArcGIS Pro to ArcGIS Online, you can select options to be able to delete, edit, create, etc the published feature layer. Then once in ArcGIS Online you can change the feature layer settings as well, but not if for instance you chose to not be able to delete in the publishing step.
I am having the same troubles on my Field Map that I created for wetland delineation. Allow editing and Sync is on for all layers. The online version of the webmap works just fine, but the offline map area version doesn't allow editing. If I create Offline Areas in my iPhone, those are editable. Cannot seem to make it work with the Designer App.
I am having the same troubles on my FieldMap that I created for a project. I've Allowed editing and sync is enabled is on for all layers. The online version of the webmap works just fine (in FM), but the offline map area (that I created in AGO) version doesn't allow editing.
It seems to be some sort of bug as I am able to get it to work if I create the offline area within the mobile field maps app. I got around the issue in the Field Maps Designer on my laptop by playing with the extent of the offline area (e.g., going in smaller and only covering the points of interest not the entire mountain region). It may be the fact that I played around with the "Level of detail" slider too.
Having the exact same issue here. I believe I have all the sharing/editing permissions set up correctly for the map and features. In Field Maps, I'm able to edit features with the online map, but not with the offline map area that I made with Field Maps Designer. When I create an offline area within Field Maps on the device itself, the editing feature works just fine.
I just ran into this same issue. As others have stated, creating the Map Area on the device worked, but I looked a bit further and found what the issue was in my scenario and can now create Map Area's online and successfully edit on the device.
I returned to Pro and re-published the layer with that option enabled. It did NOT show "Enable Z Defaults" as "true" at the REST endpoint after the initial re-publish, so I re-published it again and the value updated at the REST endpoint.
I then returned to the Web Map and editing was working there, so I created a new Map Area online, downloaded it on the device, and voila - IT WORKS! I can now edit on the device using Map Areas created in the Field Maps Web environment.
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.
I am just wondering if anyone else has been having this issue. I can set up an offline area in the Field Maps online web application, then when I try to download that offline area on Field Maps Mobile (tested on two android devices) I receive the "Offline Areas Failed to Download" Error and the log tells me that feature tiling is disabled. Now this is frustrating. However, when I create on offline area in the Field Maps Mobile App, the map is created an downloads just fine.
I'm having so much trouble with Field Maps that I'm about to tell my people that we won't be able to collect spatial data this year. I've sideloaded a tile package, so I don't need the webmap basemap for my offline map package. When I try to create an offline map package I get an error message saying that the area is too big. I live and work in Alaska, and it's a HUGE area. I need the whole state to be available in ONE offline map package for my work. We didn't need offline map areas in Collector Classic, I don't see the benefit of them at all. Seems to me that ESRI always tries to "improve" their products by removing functionality.
I am also experiencing this issue. The strange thing is it seems to be device specific. I was able to download the offline map area delineated in AGOL on an iPad and Android device running a newer os (Android 13 I believe) but not on an older device running Android 10. Has anyone else experience a device compatibility type issue like this or found a more consistent solution in general? I have tried all the listed work -arounds and am still unable to download offline areas delineated in AGOL on older android devices. Thanks!
We are experiencing a similar problem. We have a web map that we have been using for offline data collection. Downloading offline areas was working just fine. Last week we started to see downloads fail. I have the web map set to not download attachments and the base map is a 16MB vector tile layer so size should not be an issue. The size of offline areas is under 300MB when they were downloading successfully. After a good deal of repetitive trouble shooting we found that this problem is only associated with one of our hosted feature services. Remove it from the web map and everything downloads just fine. We have not made any changes to the hosted feature layer so it is unclear why we are experiencing download failures now.
I recently encountered this issue while testing the app capabilities from scratch on a Trimble we are receiving. After a few days I figured out the issue/workaround in order to download offline maps for field collection. First of all I uploaded my GDB but it contained multiple feature classes with domains. What you need to do is export every feature class into it's own zipped GDB, upload to ArcGIS Online, then publish them all. Then I created a webmap with those layers and I defined the area to download. Make sure your offline settings are correct and you have a prepackaged area defined in the webmap offline settings (Manage Areas). After this I went to Field Maps designer and added my domain fields for each feature. Now here is the tricky part. If you have empty feature classes or say you had some features within that feature class to begin with and it shows up on your map on the app, even if you try to download an offline area you will get the error. The trick is to drop a point, populate your fields on your device, save, submit. You may not need to do this but it did happen to me once, I had to log out from the app, log back in, go to the map with the offline areas and THEN it let me download an offline map. You need at least 1 collected feature that you can sync online to be able to do this. So basically if you are connected to wifi or cell signal collect one feature while connected and then you can download offline maps. But, if you attempt to add a GDB with multiple features, publish, and add it to this map you will not be able to download offline maps. The features have to be uploaded and added to a webmap individually for this to work.
Thanks for identifying a good work around. Unfortunately it won't work for our situation. When I use the export function from the AGOL web UI the process doesn't work. I end up with an empty zip file. This hosted feature layer fails to export to a shapefile or geopackage formats as well. I can export the data to a local FGDB in ArcPro. The local feature class looks fine and all of the attachments are still there. Unfortunately there is a problem when this local feature class is published as a hosted feature layer. The hosted feature layer will publish but there isn't any visible data (no records in the table, no polygons visible in map viewer). I can create new tabular records but the geometry disappears as soon as I create a feature using the map viewer.
First off, you won't download all of Google Maps in its entirety. Instead, before your trip, you'll want to download a specific area, which could be a city, county or region where you'll be spending time and might not have service on your phone.
To download a map in Google Maps offline, open the Google Maps app on iOS or Android and tap your profile picture on the top right (you must be logged in to your Google account for this to work). In the menu that appears, tap Offline maps > Select Your Own Map.
Use your fingers to place the map you want to download within the confines of the rectangle border. Use one finger to move across the map, and a two-finger pinch to zoom in and out. As you move around the map, you'll see how much storage space the download will take up on your phone. Once you're happy with the area, tap Download.
Note: Alternatively, you can type a city or other area into Google Maps and then hit the Download button that appears in the pull-up window to download the map offline, but this only works on the iPhone.
You must be connected to Wi-Fi to download the map. If you want to download over cellular, go to the Offline maps page, tap the gear icon on the top right, tap When to download offline maps and select Over Wi-Fi or mobile network. Once your map is downloaded, you'll be sent back to the Offline maps page, where you can see all your offline maps.
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