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FootballMuse
on June 6, 2012
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Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery
3D is awesome, but the better feature is offline maps. Now I can make my older android a dedicated offline GPS unit.
culturestate
on June 7, 2012
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Is navigation available offline, though? They didn't mention it.
freehunter
on June 7, 2012
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From the CNet live blog I saw, they said GPS will work offline. That doesn't confirm that navigation will work, but at least there's that.
culturestate
on June 8, 2012
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GPS already works offline, doesn't it? It just places you on a grid with no tiles.
huggyface
on June 6, 2012
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FWIW, that is currently a Google Labs feature on Android devices and has been available for some time. Perhaps they offer downloading of additional layers, but that wasn't demonstrated.
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