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Met Office. Date & Time. Google Maps. Accuweather - Lewisham. Tube Map London. London Overground. DLR. Map of London commuter rail: stations & lines. Michelin. Bing Maps. OpenCycleMap. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. Organization for Transformative Works. Home | Archive of Our Own. OpenStreetMap. CycleMaps - Hello. DLR Map. How to Make Custom Routes in Offline Maps - GPS & Mapping - Products. A few months ago, Google Maps started supporting offline maps. This means you can use Google Maps even without a data connection and still see yourself show up as that little blue dot on a map.

You can know exactly where you are in relation to everything else on the map. You can save areas of about 35 square miles to your phone. It's a brilliant use of technology, but it might not fulfill all your offline direction needs. That doesn't mean you can't make it work for your special case, however, as long as you're willing to follow a few simple steps.

A reader of this column named Phil saw my initial column and video about how to save Google Maps offline. Phil is a cyclist with an iPhone 6%displayPrice% at %seller% but no data plan. Phil asked, "Is there a way to save a route and be able to use it later on a trip [with] the app giving directions? Phil was getting ready to ride the C&O Canal bike trail, 184.5 miles from Cumberland, Maryland, to the District. 1. Yes, yes it can. Bing Maps.