Re: [luv-talk] Smart phones on wifi and GPS only?

Wasn't there some shibboleth you could use to precache map tiles locally?

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/ok-maps-cache-this-map.html Basically you'd show an area on the screen, then put "OK Maps" in the search box. Apparently now they're adding a formal option back to cache.