(I'm from the colonies. Please don't hold that against me. Thanks)

referring to iPads...

Last year Apple finally set up a method to d/l maps
for use by the, ahem, Maps program, allowing we, the
people, to run the program w/o an Internet connection.

While I've added the local area, I'd like to bring over
a lot more.

So, a double set of questions to anyone smarter than
I am...

background: the basic method is to move the cursor to your
area of interest, then click through some menu options.
This gives you, though, just a modest amount of
geography around it.

so,

a: anyone know of a way to simply ask for the
entire State of, say, NY (and the others..)
or the greater London area

b: These maps take up YUGE amounts of room. In
fact, I had to delete the handful I had d/l'ed before
I was able to get an IOS update 'cuz not enough
spare room.

Anyone know if these maps, and the program, will
work with external storage? [1]

Thanks muchly

[1] dammit, Apple, for making it impossible to
add on additional storage either inside the
iPad or via an internal/slide in micro-SD card...

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On 20 Mar 2024 at 20:50:19 GMT, "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

> (I'm from the colonies. Please don't hold that against me. Thanks)

> Last year Apple finally set up a method to d/l maps
> for use by the, ahem, Maps program, allowing we, the
> people, to ...

Erm, "allowing us".
--
Tim

In <l615tpFjvcjU1@mid.individual.net> TimS <tim@streater.me.uk> writes:

>On 20 Mar 2024 at 20:50:19 GMT, "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

>> (I'm from the colonies. Please don't hold that against me. Thanks)

>> Last year Apple finally set up a method to d/l maps
>> for use by the, ahem, Maps program, allowing we, the
>> people, to ...

>Erm, "allowing us".

I realize it's a sore topic on your side of
the pond, but a key document here in the
colonies started off with the phrase:

"We, the People, of the United States..."

(Please take the hook out of my mouth...)

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Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
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[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

danny burstein wrote:
> In <l615tpFjvcjU1@mid.individual.net> TimS <tim@streater.me.uk> writes:
>
>> On 20 Mar 2024 at 20:50:19 GMT, "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>
>>> (I'm from the colonies. Please don't hold that against me. Thanks)
>
>>> Last year Apple finally set up a method to d/l maps
>>> for use by the, ahem, Maps program, allowing we, the
>>> people, to ...
>
>> Erm, "allowing us".
>
> I realize it's a sore topic on your side of
> the pond, but a key document here in the
> colonies started off with the phrase:
>
> "We, the People, of the United States..."
>
> (Please take the hook out of my mouth...)

So, learn English grammar!

--
Graham J

On 20 Mar 2024 at 22:41:38 GMT, "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

> In <l615tpFjvcjU1@mid.individual.net> TimS <tim@streater.me.uk> writes:
>
>> On 20 Mar 2024 at 20:50:19 GMT, "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>
>>> (I'm from the colonies. Please don't hold that against me. Thanks)
>
>>> Last year Apple finally set up a method to d/l maps
>>> for use by the, ahem, Maps program, allowing we, the
>>> people, to ...
>
>> Erm, "allowing us".
>
> I realize it's a sore topic on your side of

Not particularly. After all you pinched a lot of the verbiage from our Bill of
Rights (see sig below). That's very flattering.

> the pond, but a key document here in the
> colonies started off with the phrase:
>
> "We, the People, of the United States..."
>
> (Please take the hook out of my mouth...)

Difference between subject and object of a sentence. Yeah yeah OK, you were
just being poetical.

--
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On 20 Mar 2024, danny burstein wrote
(in article<Pine.NEB.4.64.2403202048280.1503@panix2.panix.com>):

> (I'm from the colonies. Please don't hold that against me. Thanks)
>
> referring to iPads...
>
> Last year Apple finally set up a method to d/l maps
> for use by the, ahem, Maps program, allowing we, the
> people, to run the program w/o an Internet connection.

(Desperately biting my tongue not to join the grammar debate.)

Have you tried Organic Maps? It's an excellent map program which allows one
to do precisely what you need, and the downloads don't take up ridiculous
amounts of space (although obviously they have to be quite big).

(And I'm using 'quite' in the British sense of 'moderately', not the American
sense of 'outstandingly'.)

MST

Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:
> danny burstein wrote:
>> In <l615tpFjvcjU1@mid.individual.net> TimS <tim@streater.me.uk> writes:
>>
>>> On 20 Mar 2024 at 20:50:19 GMT, "danny burstein" <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> (I'm from the colonies. Please don't hold that against me. Thanks)
>>
>>>> Last year Apple finally set up a method to d/l maps
>>>> for use by the, ahem, Maps program, allowing we, the
>>>> people, to ...
>>
>>> Erm, "allowing us".
>>
>> I realize it's a sore topic on your side of
>> the pond, but a key document here in the
>> colonies started off with the phrase:
>>
>> "We, the People, of the United States..."
>>
>> (Please take the hook out of my mouth...)
>
> So, learn English grammar!

In the UK I prefer to use OS Maps.

<https://osmaps.com>

Apple probably assume everyone has a top of the range iPhone with oodles of
space for detailed map downloads. I guess you could always download maps on
your desktop or laptop Mac and transfer a particular map to your iPhone via
say Airdrop and then delete it after use.

--
Cheers, Alan

On 21 Mar 2024 at 9:39:59 am GMT, "Martin S Taylor"
<correspondence@mRaErMtOiVnEsTtHaIySlor.com> wrote:

> On 20 Mar 2024, danny burstein wrote
> (in article<Pine.NEB.4.64.2403202048280.1503@panix2.panix.com>):
>
>> (I'm from the colonies. Please don't hold that against me. Thanks)
>>
>> referring to iPads...
>>
>> Last year Apple finally set up a method to d/l maps
>> for use by the, ahem, Maps program, allowing we, the
>> people, to run the program w/o an Internet connection.
>
> (Desperately biting my tongue not to join the grammar debate.)

Congratulations :)

> Have you tried Organic Maps? It's an excellent map program which allows one
> to do precisely what you need, and the downloads don't take up ridiculous
> amounts of space (although obviously they have to be quite big).

Guru Maps also worth looking at for offline use, though I think it's
subscription these days (one-off payment when I got it.)
--
TimH
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On 21 Mar 2024, TimH wrote
(in article <l62gchFq48gU1@mid.individual.net>):

> > Have you tried Organic Maps? It's an excellent map program which allows one
> > to do precisely what you need, and the downloads don't take up ridiculous
> > amounts of space (although obviously they have to be quite big).
>
> Guru Maps also worth looking at for offline use, though I think it's
> subscription these days (one-off payment when I got it.)

Organic Maps is (are?) free.

MST

On 21 Mar 2024 at 16:11:40 CET, "Martin S Taylor"
<correspondence@mRaErMtOiVnEsTtHaIySlor.com> wrote:

> Organic Maps is (are?) free.

Yes, it's based on openstreetmap.org

I use it on the iphone when there's no internet.
--
Martin

Martin-S <invalid@nomail.com> wrote:

> On 21 Mar 2024 at 16:11:40 CET, "Martin S Taylor"
> <correspondence@mRaErMtOiVnEsTtHaIySlor.com> wrote:
>
> > Organic Maps is (are?) free.
>
> Yes, it's based on openstreetmap.org
>
> I use it on the iphone when there's no internet.

Nice! Thanks for the tip.

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On 21. Mar 2024 at 10:39:59 CET, "Martin S Taylor"
<correspondence@mRaErMtOiVnEsTtHaIySlor.com> wrote:

> Have you tried Organic Maps?

Looks good.
I can also recommend GPX Tracker.