Google Maps are one of the most useful applications for mobile devices. Google Maps is relatively fast and easy to use. Apple has preinstalled an Google Maps application on their iPhone. For all people, who do not have a flat-rate contract with their provider and want to have full benefit of Google Maps, there is an nice little Tool called “Maps Offline” where you can download parts of Google Maps data for your iPhone.
The tool can be installed on the iPhone easily (only the Jiggy Framework is needed. Once installed, the users can download maps about various areas. The size of these areas only depending on the iPhone memory itself. In some cases this could be very useful, considering that the city area of Berlin requires 100 MB for the satellite photograph and 40 MB for the map.
Personally, I cannot varify this information because I’m not an owner of an iPhone. Maybe someone can give feedback on this.
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April 15th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Sounds like copyright infringement to me.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Yes it does work. But im not so sure you would need 40 MB for just the map.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I have installed it on the iPhone. I can successfully load maps in Maps Offline, but when you switch off your Edge and WiFi, the Maps application cannot find the maps anymore. As that was whole purpose of Maps Offline, the application is either pretty useless or doesn’t work.