Until now Google Maps offered partial offline maps, but never full support. Today this has changed. Google announced that the mobile app for Android will get full support for offline maps, search in offline mode, of course, offline navigation.

Planning a route has never been easier, because now you can save an entire country, so that you may use it anytime even without Internet turned on. Google says, that users won't feel any major differences when using the offline map, except things like when a store is opened and real time traffic information updates.

iOS users will also receive the update in the near future, hopefully till the end of this month.

Currently the function is only available only for the US but we hope that soon many more countries will be supported.

Via: HiComm