{"id":1005,"date":"2015-05-28T21:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2015-05-28T21:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T21:15:37","slug":"offline-maps-on-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"Offline Maps on your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Offline-Maps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1007\" src=\"http:\/\/kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Offline-Maps-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"Offline Maps\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>News today is that Offline maps are coming to Google Maps &#8211; the ability to download a map of an area before you head away &#8211; particularly useful if you are travelling somewhere where there is poor mobile coverage or expensive roaming rates.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you have an Android phone, this service has been available for a while. Its just as easy as 1-2-3!<\/p>\n<p>1. Just open Google Maps and search for where you want to go.<\/p>\n<p>2. Select the &#8216;pin&#8217; by touching the name, as highlighted in the diagram<\/p>\n<p>3. You&#8217;ll now get a drop down menu in the top right (three vertical dots).\u00a0 That menu will let you save the map!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to zoom in and select just what you want.\u00a0 There is a size restriction, so you can select a neighbourhood but not a whole city.<\/p>\n<p>These instructions work for Android. As soon as someone walks by with an iPhone, we&#8217;ll work out how to do it on that and post the instructions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News today is that Offline maps are coming to Google Maps &#8211; the ability to download a map of an area before you head away &#8211; particularly useful if you are travelling somewhere where there is poor mobile coverage or expensive roaming rates. Of course, if you have an Android phone, this service has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}