Google Maps It is one of the most useful applications you can carry on your smartphone, because you have world mapping in your pocketThis comes in handy while driving.
Already took its place GPS released a few years ago and actually It is not uncommon to see vehicles with phones glued to the glass indicating a route to the driver..
It has two disadvantages over the first GPS. It consumes data from your mobile plan and therefore needs coverage as well.but both can be solved with the trick you will see later.
The trick is very simple and you don’t need to do anything weird, because it’s Google itself that offers it to you.
It consists of possibilities download maps, for this you just need to enter Google Maps and click on the icon with your photo, avatar or initial of your name. You will get some options and Select “offline maps”.
This will take you to another screen, where you activate the “choose your own map” option, which will allow you to choose what you want to throw in the internal memory of the smartphone.
With these saved maps, you will be able to navigate without using data or even coverage.but by proxy you need space on mobilethe fact is that the entire map of a city like Madrid weighs only about 100 megabytes, so they do not take up much space.
In this case, You won’t have public transport routes on foot or by bike, and neither will traffic jam alerts when you drive. or alternative ways that must be connected to the network for it to work.
In any case, this is acceptable, because when you download these maps the normal thing is that you want them to route the road by car.