[Quaddy]

woh! weird analagies coming into play now

i am just happy that wikipedia is available offline.

but of course, it would be the icing on the proverbial cake to have maps offline i agree, size issue would come into play as mentioned. the wikipedia alone is 2GB, and that is just textual information. think of the binary data and associated files needed for maps!

maybe when we are a few gens into the iphone with bigger storage it would be viable, but i am sure GPS will kick in before that is possible. so 'offline' may become an un-needed way of obtaining mapping.

i would definitely pay for it also, like a commercial one off fee or license, as i only have wi-fi in the house, no data plan or on the go data reception.

good luck with the request and hope it comes to fruition down the line...

[jbenka]

I make my map work very seasy on my 3G iPhone SO 3.0 and I can see with no Interenet conection or Data plan.
Here you go guys!


I was playing with my iPhone 3G after I upgrade to SO 3.0 with a map. I used on old version OfflineMaps but this wont work with SO 3.0
After installing Chronus ( replacement of TimeCapsule) from Cydia/Installer to my iPhone and I back up maps cache I saw the location of the city with out of the Internet connection or data plan. This will let you back up the correct map you browsing on iPhone and you can use later offline . I replaced the MapTiles.sqlitedb file with the file I used for OfflineMaps with iPhoneBrowser. It's big file and cover all Ontario and East/North USA.
I went for ride on motorcycle and try the map on more places around the city and out of the city and work perfect. I can see all Ontario and half US and location was always perfect.

Use iPhoneBrowser and the file is located in

var/mobile/Library/Preferences/TimeCapsule/MapCache/ (folder named with the date and time you back up your last map on iPhone)

[modmyikumar]

I am not very tech savvy
Please explain in more details.
I have xgps and I tried to download washington state map in my iphone.
It started downloading but stopped when it was at 43%. Not sure why. same thing happened twice.
If you could explain what you did, I would appreciate it.