[android-developers] Re: How can I cache Google Maps tiles using Android SDK?

If you are talking about the offline storage of Google Map tiles in
your own app then I can think of a possible approach - but I wouldn't
even bother. It's not a service that Google provide and their data is
copyrighted. Just think about how many tiles you will have to pull
down for all the zoom levels - it gets to a pretty big number very
quickly for a relatively small area. There are not that many Google
tile servers to rotate the requests between...so even if you get away
with it for a while I'm sure you will get spotted quickly and your
requests refused.

If you want to get into offline Maps then OSM (http://
www.openstreetmap.org/) is probably your best bet. There are a number
of tile providers you can pick from - although not many will give you
tiles without payment for a commercial application. If you are
covering a limited Geographical area then you would probably be better
off extracting the Geo information from somewhere like http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
and building and hosting your own tile server.

It's not a trivial proposition.

On Dec 10, 2:19 am, Alexey Zakharov <alexey.v.zaha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I want to implement "Download map area"<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/download-map-area-added-to-lab...>feature like official Google Map application. Is it possible or not?

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