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hey guys Jason Cipriani here AC now to a contributor and today we're going to take a look at how to save maps for offline use in the latest Google Maps for Android the update was pushed out yesterday after Google i/o and all the big news we saw yesterday this was something that kind of got pushed to the side it wasn't really announced or talked about but it's something they rolled out and it's a great feature to have in Google Maps on Android so what you do is when you pull up the map and you're looking at where you're at and you want to save that area for offline use you actually hit the Menu key make available offline and then you could zoom in zoom out and select the area that you want to save or cache on your device so when you get to an area that's too big you're actually told that area is too large you need to scale it down a little bit and so you could zoom back in and then you're actually told how many megabytes that backup is going to be for that area to be saved offline so once you get the map just right hit done and then it's going to download that portion of the map and save it to your device it's gonna take some time depending on how big the download is all right so the download of the offline section has finished and as you saw it was just over 66 megabytes but it took probably 10 minutes or so to download and I'm I was connected to a pretty high-speed wireless network it shouldn't shouldn't have taken that long to download that file that size of file so I'm in airplane mode and I don't have any type of connection and as you can see if I try to zoom in on just la here for example the maps isn't refreshing you're not able to see any lower views but if i zoom in to my location here as you can see the offline section is an exact map what you would expect if you had a data connection for that section and how you access it cuz through the Menu key again show your offline list and you could tap on it and it will let you know what you have save for offline and once again once you zoom in you're actually going to see that area as you would if you had a data connection when you go to other areas you don't get the detailed view like you normally would expect that's because that area is not saved for an offline view so once again it's Jason Cipriani is seen at how-to contributor and that was how to save an area for offline use with the new Google Maps update for Android