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The offline areas are useless. They are basically just prefetching the map-tiles. You can't do anything while not online, not search in the offline area, map a route or anything like that.

Here maps blows this out of the water in comparison.



> You can't do anything while not online, not search in the offline area, map a route or anything like that.

That's not true at all: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838?co=GENIE.Plat...


Are you sure? Have you tried this recently? I've been navigating without a signal and asked for the nearest gas station and it still found it for me.


That used to be the case but a year or two ago they vastly expanded the offline functionality.




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