Google Maps has vast collection of locations all across the world and it would have been better if it was available for offline viewing. Offline Maps is an application which provides its users the ability to download tiles from Google Maps and Open street map. Developers can create layers on top of Google maps to visualize stuff. With this simple tool, you can download the tiles from Google map using the zoomfactor along a path and then view it later without having to connect to Internet.
The application provides following functionality to its users:
- The ability to download tiles to a folder on your computer of a given zoomfactor along a path
- The ability to view the downloaded tiles in the application
- The ability to draw a path on the map and save that path to a file
- The ability to receive data from a GPS device and position the map at the points received from the device
To developers it provides following functionality
- The ability to develop new layers with specific functionality
- The ability to draw on the map using longitude and latitude coordinates
- The ability to draw on the map using regular coordinates
Detailed tutorial on how to use the application is available here.
