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This app is essential if you're travelling in places with poor reception. Especially since Apple Maps do not work offline. Before you write your response telling me I'm wrong, put your telephone in airplane mode and try searching for a place in Apple Maps. You can't, it shows you a fake search field.
Just tried this and it works for me. That said I still love Organic Maps!
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Google Maps have supported offline maps for many years.
Downloading larger regions on Google Maps is somewhat frustrating compared to this, though.
I think closer to the end of last year they have released map updates roughly weekly or bi-weekly. Well, took me roughly that amount of time to update the map, so it would be downloading basically all the time, and the solution was to go to my friend's place, who actually has decent internet connection, and even then, I would have to restart the download 2-3 times.
Oh, and if the download fails and you don't push the "retry all" button, or something, you have to __manually__ tap all the tens or maybe hundreds of sub-regions which have failed, since you can't download all of them for a country with one button press after at least one succeeds.
Also, OSM uses git-like system under the hood, I guess, it's not possible to incrementally update the map since they re-package it as some kind of binary blob of sorts, but still, incremental updates would be nice.
Overall, not sure if Google maps is better or worse for this, but this is frustrating enough IMO.
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Google Maps have supported offline maps for many years.
“Transit, bicycling, or walking directions are unavailable offline.” Source: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6291838 That might not be a problem in many cases, but at least Organic Maps doesn’t seem to have this limitation.
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Now try searching in the Apple offline maps. It's a fake search field.
I just did and it worked.
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I just did and it worked.
Then it is device specific or country specific? I have a 3rd generation SE on iOS 17, with offline maps downloaded of my region. If the phone is in airplane mode, the search field in Apple Maps turns into a "Browse offline maps" field with no search function. In Organic Maps, the search function is always available (but a bit lacking).
Quite possible that this is region/phone-language-specific.
Many things on iOS are these days: For example, "find things in images" (no idea how it's officially called, identifying animals and places etc.) is available in en_US and de_DE, but not de_US (which I've been using for a while).