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0 pointsthrower1236y ago0 comments

Google Maps is just horrible on mobile when you aren't on Wifi. I'd like to wireshark it some day to figure out just how many different web requests it is making.

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avip6y ago

You don't need wireshark - open dev console and observe that any map operation (drag/zoom/draw and anything else) requires an api request to gmaps.

You can contrast that with mapbox which seems to have been designed upfront with offline mode in mind.

lallysingh6y ago

Google probably wants the usage data, so they take additional load to handle more requests.

rabidrat6y ago

Oops! Then that's a terrible design.

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