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Google and Apple map on iPhone, can't they do better design

Why iPhone needs internet data to show the map. Even simple TomTom works brilliantly without any data/big processer but the big giants they can't make it better design.

Recently i forgot to take my TomTom and started using iPhone maps, but it never worked there was no connection to the remote areas.

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  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 33,048 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Except tomtom charge you for map updates where google give them for free.

    Preinstalled tomtom maps take up how much space? Where google maps only downloads the parts you need.

    You can download maptiles for a given area at home and use offline also.
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  • There are offline maps available in the Apple Store but they take about 700 MB if I'm not wrong
  • Weird_Nev
    Weird_Nev Posts: 1,383 Forumite
    edited 25 January 2014 at 12:20PM
    With Google maps on Android, you can actually specify a map area and download it to memory. Handy for sa nav in remote locations. Sounds like there's similar in the Apple version of the maps.

    Tom tom maps for the UK are a couple of Gigabytes. Even an hours journey only uses 10Mb or so.
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    COPILOT MAPS uk on Android phone about 450 mb

    Google maps variable pre download areas .
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