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maxandonuts
maxandonuts

Reputation: 595

Totally offline windows phone 8 mapping application

I recently developed an Android mapping app in which I used osmdroid for an offline maps API, and used tiles downloaded for offline tile sources. I've been thinking of going into WP 8 dev for a while now, and one of the things I would like to know is the same kind of thing possible WP 8.

First of all, is the maps API available in Windows Phone 8 really available offline, coming from Android where I had to use an alternative like osmdroid i have a hard(yet pleasant) time wrapping my head around this, and second which would be my alternatives for tile sourcing, remember I need those tile sources to be completely offline.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 678

Answers (1)

Romasz
Romasz

Reputation: 29792

Yes - if you use Maps API, it is available offline if regions are downloaded with MapDownloader task (or other program already downloaded it via this Task).

As it is said here in the blog:

One of the unique features is shared offline maps and map caching. When a user downloads a region of maps for offline use through the Map Downloader included in the OS, those offline maps are also available to all consumers of the map control.

All apps have access to offline maps – pretty cool! There is also something special about the APIs for geocode (address to coordinate), reverse geocode (coordinate to address), and routing. These are hybrid online/offline APIs; the platform determines whether each request should go online or use offline map data in the shared map cache.

Upvotes: 1

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