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by TeMPOraL 2565 days ago
Is navigation working off-line now? Last time I checked, it didn't. And Google Maps, even on-line, are quite bad at being a map, with the completely unreliable way of rendering street labels. I've used Google Maps off-line in a pinch a few times, but it wasn't too pleasant of an experience.

(Call me entitled, but I don't think it's too much to ask of an off-line map to offer point-by-point navigation and searching through the DB of addresses and POIs in the off-line map. When you can't do it, I get the feeling someone doesn't want you to use off-line mode, and is purposefully overcomplicating things.)

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All those things (except display of some street names) work for me offline on my Android phone, but only for driving directions. You have to save an offline map manually first, somewhere in the settings or sidebar.
I was able to create usable offline navigation with OSM in a mobile app in a few weeeks. Sure this guys could afford that :)