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Forums › Apple iOS and devices › iPad Maps - any tricks to cache the maps?
sarahk

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#68784 28-Sep-2010 11:22
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I've installed OffMaps and its a great system - the only problem is that the NZ maps are incomplete.

Pauanui doesn't exist, Tairua has only a main road, Ngongotaha & Kaukapakapa are missing alot of detail.

So the solution seems to be better caching for the native Maps app. My experience is that it only caches the most recent views and Google searches seem to back that up.

Does anyone know a way to allocate Maps a certain amount of disk space? or any other tricks to manipulate its caching mechanism?




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  #385539 28-Sep-2010 16:15
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If you do a search in the itunes store, or app store from your phone, there is quite a few offline map app's not sure how good they are, and mostly use open street map, there used to be a one as well if you had jailbroken phone.


As far as i remember google does cache the maps, so i know when i was going down south, i would try and view the area over wifi with my phone first, and zoom in and and on the main roads, and then when i was out and about,  i had no signal i still got the gps dot. and some form of map, i just had to zoom out more to get the idea of where i was, if that makes sense. 

If you spend the time, im sure you can cache a lot of the map, you just have to load it up over a connection first, and it should retain it. 




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