GOOGLE MAPS SATELLITE VIEW GONE 2017 ANDROID

GOOGLE MAPS SATELLITE VIEW GONE 2017 ANDROID

On a lengthy journey over major roads I tend to use Google Maps and Waze at the same time in the split screen mode Android 7 allows, so you get the polished version of directions from Google Maps, but the more immediate updates from other Waze users. Unless Im misunderstanding the blog they are not doing away with the feature. which is where I got the figures above from.Īlthough you can get apps that do off-line mapping with no data, for example Here we go, the 'killer' feature for mobile phone navigation is the traffic information. Google offer another app, Datally, and one of the features is to show day by day usage of data per app. So somewhere between 7MB per hour and 25MB per hour.Īlthough the data usage the 'Mobile data usage' section in the Android settings will tell you per app, it will only do it over a monthly period. However the traffic was horrible when I made the return journey and I took numerous diversions and Google maps used 50MB. To give two examples, on a recent two hour / two hundred mile journey I made with no diversions Google maps used 15MB. However if you divert from the route on the way, this then takes more data as Google didn't anticipate this. So if you have done this on WiFi before you leave you reduce your data usage. My understanding is even if you don't download off-line maps when you select a route to navigate Google maps, just in case you go into an area of bad reception on the way Google Maps downloads the entire route to start with. There isn't a 'per hour' rate as it depends on traffic and the amount of re-routing.

Google maps satellite view gone 2017