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Google Maps Goes Offline

Google announced that an innovation today about Maps which users are waiting for a long time. Without an internet connection enables the use Google Maps, service search, navigation and other features.

Rachel Kowalski
Rachel KowalskiCybersecurity Analyst
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Google Maps Goes Offline

Google announced that an innovation today about Maps which users are waiting for a long time.Without an internet connection enables the use Google Maps, service search, navigation and other features.This innovation makes accessible to Google Maps offline.

To access it without an internet connection, you must download to your phone beforehand the map of the area you plan to have or where you need to access.By the results of a city or search for it , simply tap the download option.Alternatively, go to the Google Maps menu that appears here in the offline section of the Regions ‘+’ to add the map about the area you wish by using the image as possible. The download process is done only when you have internet connection.

Thus, when you go abroad or offline mode, that is able to search and identity automatically the region over map which you can view directions.However, opening times about the places in the area , information such as contact information and points can still be displayed offline in Maps.When you access to the internet, it continues to deliver online traffic information.The feature starting to use on Android.Although iOS is coming soon.

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Rachel Kowalski

Rachel Kowalski

Cybersecurity Analyst

Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.

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