Offline Maps on iTouch/iPhone

[Mario8672]

The Maps application is next to useless unless you have a WiFi spot all the time. It would be much more efficient to be able to save a city so you can look at it later on when you are offline.

Is this possible without hacking the iPod touch or iPhone?

[ora]

You don't have to use wifi, you can use it over 3g/edge - most plans here in the UK are unlimited data plans so as long as I am not abroad I don;t find this an issue.

[Mario8672]

Well, on the iTouch.

[CharlieJ]

Nope.
The only way to do this is jailbreaking, currently.
Unless you take a screen shot of the map when connected to a network?
HAHa :P

[JeffCGD]

You just have to compute your route BEFORE you disconnect from your WiFi Network (ie: enter your destination and arrival points and step through your route – I find stepping through all way points ensures everything gets cached). These cached steps will be available off-line once you are disconnected. Not as good as a local map database, but works for a single set of directions.

[defender]

Please check out wikimap (full version). It allows users to save Open Street Maps (OSM) for offline map navigation and browsing. For more information, please visit

http://wiki.alumni.net/wiki/Wikimap