Hey everyone, are you headed somewhere in the world or you're just staying home and want to use Google Maps offline?
Well today I'm going to show you how it's really simple. That's an easy trick. Let's check it out
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So today I want to show you how to pre download your maps for Google Maps so you can use it offline
But they were traveling around your own community or you're traveling around the world
the other charges can get really expensive and we want to make sure we save you money and you
Have maps with you all the time
Especially if you're in cities around the world
You want to make sure you have a map with you just and you know where you're going?
I also want to show you some Wi-Fi settings. Make sure you're not downloading those maps over your cellular network
So let's take a closer look
So let's go ahead and open up Google Maps on our device
And I'm in Kelowna, British Columbia Canada, so let's use the first method to make a map of my home area
so click on those three bars in the top left-hand corner, and this is gonna bring up a menu and
If you scroll down you're gonna see offline maps
so go ahead and select that and
There's a button here that says select your own map. We're gonna push on that and
in my case a map of Kelowna comes up and you can use two fingers to scroll in and out and
Move around the area that you want that now down in the bottom, right? There's a download button
So you click that and it's gonna start downloading that map for you
It's pretty quick too to download the map with all the streets and everything on it once that's done
It's actually gonna show you how long that map is good for so in this case, it's good till March 15th
You're gonna have to redownload it or update it in order to keep that going after that point
So let's take a look at the second method
I'm actually going to Guatemala City in a couple of months. So let's download a map for Guatemala City. So I'll type that in
And once that comes up you'll see the name of the city written down here at the bottom
So you're actually just gonna push on that and over here on the right hand side
You're gonna see download so you can select that just push on that and again a map of Guatemala City comes up
I'm actually gonna be staying in mix Co
So I make sure that's in there and wat Amala city, and then I can
see here at the bottom that it says 25 megabytes is what the map is gonna
Gonna use and you can just click download and it's gonna download that in the background for you. So that's downloading. I
Also promised to show you how to set this up. So you're not downloading these maps over your cellular network
So click on those three bars again in the top left hand corner and again click on offline maps
And up here in the top right hand corner. You're gonna see a gear logo again. So click on that
and
once you open that up, you're gonna see this area that says download
Preferences and what you're gonna want to do is set this to over Wi-Fi only
If you haven't set to the other one over Wi-Fi or mobile networks
These maps could be downloaded while you're on your cellular network
Which could cost you a lot of money if you're especially if you're downloading them
In another country and you don't really have a plan for that area. It could end up costing me a fortune
So make sure that's set to Wi-Fi only
So there you go. It's that easy to download maps for offline use on
It also comes in handy if you're traveling in areas with spotty coverage for your phone to have those Maps already on there
You're not worried about whether you're gonna have the maps available as well as when you're traveling abroad
The data rates can get really high. So you have them pre downloaded. You're all set. You have maps wherever you go
So I hope you enjoyed this video on how to pre download maps for Google Maps
I want to make sure you save money on your data charges
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