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glimshe
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You can download maps for offline use with Google Maps. It's not exactly the same, but very close in practice.
worble
on Dec 2, 2022
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Except when you can't: when I was going with my friends to Japan they couldn't download the maps due to a licensing issue or something.
Luckily OSM was more than happy to let me download it's maps.
LorenPechtel
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Hit the same thing in China. I have free cellular data while there--but at a trickle. Maps were painful and the VPN needed to access Google Maps also added it's own headaches because of the spotty connection causing repeated reconnects.
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on Dec 2, 2022
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This used to be an issue, but downloading maps of Japan is possible these days.
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