hey everyone today we're gonna show you how simple it is to pre download maps
for Google Maps ahead of time before you even travel it's totally free and really
simple to do then we're gonna show you how to use them as well on your phone so
check it out
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we're gonna be showing you how simple it is to download maps and use them offline
in Google Maps sending you money on data charges while you travel or just
navigate around your own town so first off let's show you how to download them
for offline use and then we'll jump in my car and show you how to navigate
alright so we've got my phone here and the first thing we want to do is make
sure that my Wi-Fi is on and my cellular data is off and on these Android phones
you can just swipe down from the top you can see my Wi-Fi is on there but my data
is on as well so I'm going to turn that off so I'm not downloading these maps
over my cellular data from there once you've done that let's go ahead and open
up Google Maps and once that's opened up you can just do a search for whatever
city you want to download the map for I happen to search for Las Vegas and this
is what we're gonna be downloading for the first example today and from there
I'm gonna just hit the back button in the top left until I see my little logo
or picture in the top right-hand corner so if this is the map you do want to
download let's go ahead and click on our picture and it's gonna bring up a menu
where we can swipe down to the bottom and we're gonna see an option here that
says offline maps and if I click on offline maps you're gonna see all the
maps that I've pre downloaded already so this is how you would get into all your
maps if you do want to down delete them you can just hit on the three dots next
to them and delete them or update them there but what we're looking to do at
the top here is an option that says select your own map so if I hit select
your own map again that map of Las Vegas comes up you can use two fingers to zoom
in and out and find the exact you do want to download and at the
bottom it says the download will use 60 megabytes of free space so you can know
exactly how much it's gonna use if I actually zoom in you can see that that
number will go down so now it's 35 megabytes so I'm gonna download all the
Las Vegas there at 60 megabytes from there we can just go ahead and click the
download button here and it's gonna start downloading so you can see the
downloading started and if we look here it's already at 5% so that's just gonna
continue to download in the background now the second method to download your
maps it's probably the actually the easier method so let's find a different
city here let's do Palm Springs and once that's loaded up here let's have a look
so I've got Palm Springs loaded up and maybe you just want to download all of
Palm Springs at the bottom here there's writing it says Palm Springs California
USA just click on those words and it's gonna bring up a whole bunch of
information on Palm Springs this is great information if you're traveling to
a city and at the top here you're gonna see an option that says download here on
the right hand side we're just gonna click on that and again it's gonna bring
up that map so you can decide what you want to start downloading so you can
zoom in or out maybe in this situation I just want downtown Palm Springs and
that's gonna be 20 megabytes it says that up there at the bottom I can just
go ahead and click download and again that's gonna start downloading in the
background you can see download started and it's just gonna continue there so
that's how you do download your maps for offline use so let's go ahead and jump
in my car and show you exactly how to use these maps alright so the first
thing we need to do is make sure that our GPS is turned on on our phone so
again on these androids I can just swipe down from the top and I can hit the
location button here which is gonna turn on the GPS on my phone you can see that
the Wi-Fi and the data are turned off from there let's go ahead and open up
Google Maps and once that's opened up you can see that it actually knows where
I am located in the Orchard Park Mall there I'm the great little green dot so
we can just start to do a search here I'm going to maybe search for Starbucks
and once you've done that it's gonna bring up a full search results for
Starbucks so it's gonna be searching right now through the database now but
every business is going to be located in here but most of them do show up and
once you've done that it's just taking his time here just do that search here
they come and all the Starbucks in the area do come up you can see it saying
offline showing limited results so I'm gonna just pick one of these here let's
go ahead and pick this one here and once I pick that one I can hit directions and
as the directions are loading up I can see how to drive there I'm gonna hit
start and that's gonna start right up there we go it's loading up and they are
on there so let's head out and drive towards Starbucks right on the banks
road and as you can hear the GPS Direction still work even though we're
offline this is absolutely amazing for traveling okay so we made it to
Starbucks and our navigation worked great and it's that easy to use Google
Maps offline so I hope this tutorial on how to pre download maps for offline use
in Google Maps helped you out if it did make sure to give this video a thumbs up
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until next time safe travels