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With the holidays it is usually normal travel Thanks to the companies lowcostand last minute bargains, visiting any foreign country is affordable for almost everyone Now, how do you get around there if you don't know the language? How do you know where to go without having a map of the place? Google Maps, the map tool of Google, is the most popular solution, even when no Internet connectionAnd it is that it has several methods to continue offering information of interest or even direct the user to their destination step by step despite not having a roaming rate.
To do this, the user of Google Maps can download maps of the area that you are going to visit before leaving home, or when you are connected to a WiFi network Downloading these maps allows you to get hold of all the contents of a territory, including streets, addresses, establishments, points of interest and other details of this tool. Thus, the user can use the application Google Maps both to search for places and to receive turn-by-turn directions as if the application were connected to the Internet.
The negative points are that there is no updated information Thus , it is not possible to know if there is traffic congestion in an area.Neither can questions be consulted outside the downloaded area, although it allows collecting several portions capable of housing an entire city. Finally, downloading the maps means occupying space in the terminal's memory, taking into account that it can be several hundreds of MB , depending on the size of the map.
How to download the maps?
Simply access the application Google Maps, preferably with WiFi connection , and display the lateral menu, where the Zones without connection section is located Accessing here will collect all downloaded maps.
The following is to click on the button + in the lower right corner to add a new portion. This will display a map and a box, which is used to delimit the portion of the map to be downloaded.
In this way, all that remains is to center in the box that part of the map that you want to have offline. As if it were the map habitual, it is possible to travel to that country that is going to travel to find it. After that, the pinch gesture offers to enlarge or shrink the area, further delimiting the portion to download.
Google Mapsoffers space-relevant information that assumes said portion of the map in the terminal's memory. Note that the larger the area, the more MB it will occupy in the terminal's memory.
When you press the Download button, the process begins. As we said, it is best to use a connection WiFi to avoid exhausting the rate's Internet data and also speed up the download.
With this, the user can use the application as usual when traveling abroad, as long as it is within the downloaded portion Thus, it is possible to search for restaurants and bars , know where a street is located or even locate yourself on the map thanks to GPSIt is also important to know that you can use your turn-by-turn navigation without having an Internet connection.
One more alternative
The Google Maps GPS navigator used to download the routeprogrammed to avoid scares in case the connection is cut during the journey. In this way, the user can search for how to get to a certain point and start browsing while still having an Internet connection (it can be at the hotel or at some point found during the trip).Then, without disconnecting your GPS, you can continue and be guided to that point without problem and without connectionHowever, it does not allow you to search for new destinations or find establishments. A somewhat risky move compared to downloading maps.
