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How much data do you use on your mobile using google maps as a sat nav?


 
Posted : 29/06/2020 1:08 pm
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Not much.

GPS doesn't use data at all. "Assisted" GPS uses a tiny amount of data to speed up the initial acquisition of a satellite lock. This is true of all GPS systems, not just Google.

Google Maps needs a data signal to load its maps. You can minimise this by planning routes before you leave the house (ie, on Wi-Fi) and it will cache most of the data it needs. Traffic updates also need data, but that's miniscule.

The last time I went on holiday I did a US road trip across three states (and back), Google Maps was my sole navigation and data usage for the two weeks was in the order of megabytes.


 
Posted : 29/06/2020 2:09 pm
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Download maps and it'll have them offline.

You can download some huge areas, the entire south east of eangland from bath eastwards, below central london, is 370MB.


 
Posted : 29/06/2020 2:19 pm
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1.5gb of mobile data since 8th January apparently. I’d imagine some of that was downloading my offline maps that live ok my phone.


 
Posted : 29/06/2020 9:06 pm

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