Downloading maps and countries
The map isn’t a stream, it’s put together from countries you download. You can choose from the whole world. What isn’t on the phone doesn’t exist offline: no road map, no routing. That’s the whole catch, and you can sort it out at home on Wi-Fi instead of at the top of the pass.
What a country brings along
An entry on the list (the app says region, the collection counts countries) is a pack of three things:
- Base map - the road map itself.
- Routing data - the road network the device calculates on. Without it, nothing calculates offline.
- Base POIs - fuel, lodging, workshops, emergency, passes.
On top there are add-on packs, for example Hillshade, the relief shading. You get them per country and switch them on under Map display (layers button at the bottom left) at Offline overlays.
Downloading countries
- Hamburger menu → Settings, in the Map & data section the Maps entry. At the top are the countries already on the device.
- More Maps → Browse by continent → country → Add to collection. That doesn’t download anything yet, it collects. You can collect as many countries as the trip is long.
- At the top of the Maps page there’s now a button: N countries in your collection, followed by the size. Tap it and the app downloads everything at once.
Three things on that:
- Size and space. The size is on the button before you tap, and the app checks whether the space is enough. A single country pack can weigh up to 14 GB (as of October 2026), so not something for in between.
- Wi-Fi. Maps come over Wi-Fi only, by default. If you want cellular on the road, switch on Download maps over cellular; for a single download there’s Download on cellular now. Abroad, leave the switch off. Roaming gigabytes aren’t worth a map.
- Background. The download keeps going when you leave the app. With the screen off it can slow down; for that there’s Keep screen on while downloading. While something is loading, the Downloads row on the Maps page shows the progress. No map download starts during a ride; whatever you order then begins after the ride.
Deleting: open the country, Slide to delete. After that, map and offline routing there are gone, and the add-on packs with them.
Updates
The Maps page doesn’t ask the network when you open it. Pull it down and it asks the server. If there’s something new, the line of a country says Update available or Map incomplete, and Update appears at the top. The button only exists when there’s something to do. If a download stumbled, it fetches the rest; whatever was finished stays.
When a new map edition comes, the app swaps the routing network of all your countries together. Beforehand it asks you a question under “New map edition” with two answers:
- Keep routing while it downloads. The old edition stays until the new one is complete, and offline routing keeps running the whole time. For that, both sit on the device: you need space for two.
- Free up space first. That saves space, but the old edition goes first. Offline routing is gone until the new one is there.
Both answers name how much space is needed and how much you have; whatever doesn’t fit is dimmed. When the new edition sits complete next to the old one, you switch with the green button Use the new maps. If you stop, you keep the maps you’re using now, and the new edition is discarded.
The advice: do updates the evening before, on Wi-Fi, not on departure day at seven.
Borders
If both countries are on the device, the route calculates across the border as if it weren’t there. The tiles at the border belong to both countries and sit on the phone only once. If one of the countries is missing, the device can’t calculate there offline. So download the countries you only roll through too, not just start and destination.
The routing network of all your countries comes from the same edition. The app swaps it only as a whole, the whole edition or nothing, because a mixed network would produce routes that don’t exist. Map and POIs of one country may each be older; then the line says Update available.
What works without signal
Works: map, routing, recalculation after a missed turn, navigation, announcements with an offline voice (Voices), POI markers, search in the installed maps, recording.
Needs signal: the map list (once, at first launch), downloads and updates, the online search (Search online, for addresses), online routing (if signal is missing, the device keeps calculating on its own) and group rides.
Before the trip
- Download all countries along the route, the ones you only pass through included.
- Download over Wi-Fi, cellular switch off.
- No updates on departure day.
- Airplane mode on, calculate a route through each country. If the line shows up (blue, because the phone did the calculating), you’re good.
The trip itself is covered in the chapter Planning a multi-day trip.