Without the Internet is not Google Maps. However, the situation is not hopeless. Google Maps can be used in offline mode. The main thing is to prepare in advance.

How to save the map Google Maps

In the application Google Maps you can save the area of ​​the map for later use without internet connection.

I advise you to save as much as possible the area, so you use the zoom. However, you cannot save the map of Europe, because Google will warn you that the selected area is too large.

You can save the region with a special item in the menu – “Save a new offline map”. You only need to click on the search box and scroll down the list of options. Saved fragment does not take up much space in the memory, so you can, without fear, to keep as many areas as you need.

You should remember: the Google Maps application does not work in offline mode. The only thing you can do to save the map – open and check with it. You will not be able to set routes, look for restaurants and shops nearby.

We must also say that if you use offline maps Google Maps, the navigation will work a little more slowly, as the phone is waiting for data to your location via GPS.

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Yahoo wants to Apple’s right to use its search engine as the default search tool in iOS, according to the publication Re / code. To do this, Yahoo is working on two new products to optimize mobile search and monetization.

Late last year, The Wall Street Journal wrote that Apple and Yahoo are actively discussing ways to integrate search engine services in the mobile operating system, not including annexes “Weather” and “shares” that draw information from relevant services Yahoo.

It is reported that the head of Yahoo Marissa Mayer soon prepares to speak to top managers of Apple. It intends to demonstrate, might look like Yahoo mobile search in iOS.

Clean up the Google search engine from the iOS while nobody is going – take a sufficient amount of time before Apple and Yahoo will be able to reach a consensus on this issue. Because such reforms are likely search giant, rather than the company from Cupertino , which users feel fine and searching Google.

Also note that Google, is likely to remain in the iOS as a subsidiary search engine, because for so many years, people have become accustomed to its services. At the same time, Google’s mobile division is unlikely to be in awe of such a change: as a rule, the owners of the iPhone and iPad rarely bother with the change of default search engine and enjoy that which they originally offered Apple.

Apple has gradually renounces the use of Google services in its mobile OS. For example, voice assistant Siri recently requests information from the searcher Bing from Microsoft. In addition, Apple has replaced the standard Google Maps in iOS on your own mapping service.

Who knows, maybe Yahoo really help Apple to become completely independent from Google in the near future.

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On April nobody believe! With this in mind it is important to wake up to this day on the calendar, so you do not feel like a fool. Faith asked anyone wishing to circle you circle around your finger, starting from the white spin and untied shoelaces and pumping something interesting. And who does not like Google, delighting us every holiday original Dudley knows a lot about good joke?

Chrome

Joke – it’s always laughter and fun, or, in other words, positive emotions. That Google and provide users with mobile version of Chrome browser to translate any English-language page on the language of emotions. Native Androidinsider.ru read as “rock records”, unfortunately, will not work, due to the fact that the codes for smileys traditionally are the words written in Latin. But maybe someone would facilitate understanding of foreign resources.

Cards

After studying the information on accessible, we can say the international language, it’s time to go on the hunt for Pokemon. Yes, Pokemon, so that you wonder? Pokemon that you never got caught?

Of course, nobody hunts without proper navigation. So let your Google-maps, Tapan search bar and then press the “Start” icon will appear with pokebola. Finding another wild beast, grab it and add to their armory.

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Worldwide hiding 150 different species of Pokémon. Collect them all, promise to call in Google on the final round and won the final test will be pokemon-master of Google! Not the dusty job of work, it should be.

Photo

During the hunt for Pokemon, you have to “explore” the world and is likely to do a lot of cool images that are best kept in Photography Google+. After all, there is a cool feature “Avtokreativ”, which will make the pictures even steeper. Because any picture steeper if there’s David Hasselhoff! So when you take pictures, leave little room for David.

And do not forget to share with us the number of the captured Pokemon and photos with Hasselhoff in the comments!

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Nokia is a little late to improve its mapping service HERE Maps spherical panoramas of the type of “Street View.” However, Nokia is going to get around Google in the second generation of machines that are the main tool in the development of such services.

With the new updated mapping system, which is based on a laser scanner and LIDAR data processing technology company Earthmine, dedicated 3D-mapping, Nokia promises panoramic images of higher resolution than Google and more accurate three-dimensional models of buildings. Recall that the company Earthmine, which Nokia acquired in November 2012, with the help of special vehicles shoots spherical three-dimensional images by analogy with StreetView from Google. Resource SlashGear managed to make out more detail one of the prototypes and find out whether the new 68-megapixel Nokia mapping system to ensure the team Google sleepless nights.

The first generation of the mapping system Earthmine used four cameras with wide-angle lenses, which were installed on the roof of special machines.

The second generation of Earthmine got better than its predecessor in almost every aspect. Resolution cameras was increased more than 2 times. Each of them the strength to capture 16.8 megapixel resolution images that will create a total of spherical panoramas resolution of 68 megapixels. Cameras use wide-angle lenses, “fisheye”. The system is designed so that the panoramic images are created every six meters.

In the configuration of the second generation of the mapping system Earthmine addition to cameras and laser scanner also includes a satellite navigation receiver GPS.

With the camera data is written to the hard drive capacity which is enough for 3 days – 140 GB of data per day. It is worth noting that the control system is carried out using a special application HERE True Control, working on a tablet Microsoft Surface, which is attached to the vehicle dashboard.

The application is written by experts and founder of Nokia Earthmine. It not only controls the camera, but also follows the route of the car communicates with the Nokia servers in real time and provides information about the location of the vehicle, as well as the amount of free space on the HDD.

Earlier, the 3D-card HERE were available only in certain countries in Europe and North America. At the same time, the second generation of the mapping system Earthmine this year will be launched in 27 countries in Africa, South America, Asia, North America and Europe. It is also reported that, after mapping the car will be engaged in other systems, responsible for the areas that were inaccessible to vehicles.

Founder Earthmine John Ristevski (John Ristevski) believe that in the near future HERE Maps will become much more popular than Google Maps.

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Appeared not so long ago Photo Sphere mode for Android produce a few frames, and then the footage is combined into a complex panorama. Google has decided to simplify the process of finding, sharing and viewing the beautiful panoramas of different places made with the regime Photo Sphere. It is designed for this new feature Views in maps Google Maps.

Views feature simplifies the import panoramas account Google+, and also allows you to find and sort images according to several criteria: made by a particular user, the most popular, as well as geo-located.

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