[rqtwteye]

The support is terrible. You can only choose a rectangle with the same proportions as your screen and the allowed size is too small for a trip in lots of areas of the US. Like a lot of software there are restrictions that make no sense and are extremely user unfriendly.

[wombat-man]

I think now you can search for a city or something and download the offline map

[rqtwteye]

You can. But you can’t download a large region like a whole state which makes long road trips a pain.

Apple Maps is even worse because it has no offline mode at all.

[shaftway]

I've generally been really impressed with it. Would it be nice if I could pick a bigger area? Yeah. Would it be nice if I could choose the dimensions of my rectangle, or a non-rectangular shape like a state? Yeah.

But the fact that I can download a map that has all of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Delaware, and sizable chunks of 4 other states in that area for 890 MB is pretty awesome. Especially when it comes with full driving directions, business information including hours and the search capabilities? And it'll keep it up to date periodically? I'll take that win.

[llbeansandrice]

There’s no walking directions. But they can definitely do it. I was able to start a walking route on a hiking trail in Rocky Mountain National Park at 12k feet. Then switch into airplane mode and see exactly how far we had left.

All of that impossible if I didn’t have signal to start the walking route.

[wombat-man]

Idk when you tried it last, but it works for me on the iOS app. If you search for something that is a 'region' there should be a download offline map option.

In any case, before traveling I try to download the offline maps in HERE wego too.

[blendergeek]

Apple introduced offline support to maps in the most recent iOS update (I wanna say 17).