[extra88]

It’s in the store. It touts working offline, do you have save map data for an area first or can you use it the same way as other map apps?

I’ve used Google Maps’ offline saving feature when traveling internationally and where cell service is poor or absent.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/organic-maps/id1567437057

[habi]

> It touts working offline, do you have save map data for an area first or can you use it the same way as other map apps?

You download a region before being there, then you can use the app completely offline. The 'completely offline' modus only works for the downloaded data, obviously.

I'm using it quite a bit abroad, since roaming data outside of Switzerland is really expensive :)

[wrycoder]

OM is ok, but the contours are coarse and in meters. I use Gaia, which has far more capability and also works offline. But, note that Gaia has been bought recently by Outside. I’m concerned about maintaining privacy, based on the email they sent.

I should mention that Apple Maps, being vector based, can be pre-downloaded using the hotel wifi when you are in a roaming area and will work for many blocks around the hotel without using the radios. Google won’t.

[extra88]

The Google Maps app will let you explicitly download quite large areas for use offline.

[distances]

It works only offline. You download the area before you can zoom in; there's no online tile-on-demand.