Offline maps and 3rd party apps

[swiz#WP]

Hi,
Is there some 3rd party app in win phone 8 marketplace that makes use of downloaded maps on the phone? And is there an api to make use of them because it will be huge space saver for devices with small amaunt of storage?

 

[Sam Sabri]

Which phone do you have? You can download maps offline in the native maps app. Go check out the settings there.

 

[swiz#WP]

10x! I know that I can download maps offline in the native maps app but what I wanted to ask is if there is way that some marketplace app can use those downloaded maps for its own purposes. For example some turn by turn navigation app - instead of using online maps or some which are downloaded in its own cache to use offline apps of the native map app. This way we can have several offline navigations without every one of them downloading and keeping its own cache maps.

 

[Florin Anghel]

No, it's not possible what you want. Each app that has turn by turn navigation usually use it's own map. But these app that have turn by turn from third party usually gives you the option to download.

 

[swiz#WP]

I found app that can use downloaded bing (nokia) maps. It is GPS Voice navigation.