>A turn-by-turn app that pre-caches the route as soon as you ask for directions, ensuring that you’ll get to your destination even if you drive through an area without cell coverage.
That's not what I call "offline". HERE is offline, this is useless.
Pre-cached directions are just one use case for offline maps. Our SDK gives developers the control to download arbitrary bounding boxes for any purpose.
I like that this has topo maps. I'll have a look at it for that alone.
Also worth trying "Here" Maps for pre-download mapping. This is the old Nokia maps, now Microsoft. Its surprisingly good. I use it as my go-to for driving as the spoken directions seem to time better plus the interface is much cleaner and easy to read at a glance. Also they include speed limits + your GPS speed which are both useful. I still prefer Google Maps for looking up a business as they have better information.
Great maps, they include much better gradient data than other map providers - lots of logistics companies use HERE Maps because accurate gradient data turns into significant fuel savings if you're planning routes for 20+ ton freight trucks.
Previous versions of the MapBox SDK had offline tile caching, for both Android and iOS. Worked really well if you could know which tiles you needed to download in advance.
This update is for the new version of their SDK, Mapbox GL. When they first announced it, there was no offline map support, so I couldn't bring my apps over to it.
For anyone who's interested, I used the offline maps in a trail/hiking app that needs to work in remote mountains, and for a "back seat driver" app for kids in the back of cars on road trips.
I actually thought this would be the obvious answer, instead it's near the bottom of the thread. Odd for the best open source navigation app I've ever found.
Looks interesting for hybrid apps in particular. I notice Mapbox have plugins for NativeScript and Cordova. There's an experimental plug-in for React Native.
If anyone from Mapbox is looking, do you know if a JavaScript offline version is in the works, or being considered?
Hi, Mapbox developer here. We've gotten a few requests for offline for mapbox-gl-js[0], but haven't put a priority on it yet. We need to do some investigation to see if this is something that's feasible to build with Web APIs such as IndexedDB.
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Plus, it's open source. https://github.com/mapsme/omim