Allow offline tile overlays to be loaded without the initial launch API key check [35823181]

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[Deleted User]

created issue #1

Jun 12, 2013 10:22PM

Currently, you need an internet connection on the first activity launch to even enable offline functionality on the Map fragment.
Is it possible to allow loading of tiles using an offline tile provider without doing the initial API key check esp. when the map type is GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_NONE? I think the API key check should really be limited to cases where map type is anything besides MAP_TYPE_NONE.

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ne...@gmail.com <ne...@gmail.com> #2Mar 11, 2014 12:24AM

Yes please :) Along with a more specific definition of how the Popular Times are determined (how much history? done by mobile device activity? check ins?)

ne...@gmail.com <ne...@gmail.com> #3Mar 11, 2014 12:24AM

Making popular times available by day of the week would be awesome

ne...@gmail.com <ne...@gmail.com> #4Mar 11, 2014 12:24AM

It already is Jeffrey, you can toggle by day on mobile or desktop

tr...@gmail.com <tr...@gmail.com> #5Mar 11, 2014 04:32PM

We're also working on an offline map mode for our app. Would LOVE to see this fixed!!!

le...@gmail.com <le...@gmail.com> #6Mar 11, 2014 04:34PM

@r22, I think Jeff is referring to the ability to split popular times by day of week in the information released by the API, not the currently existing web GUI.

Maybe the info appears as a nested object? e.g. "popular times" > "day of week" > "hour of day" > traffic count

da...@gmail.com <da...@gmail.com> #7Apr 4, 2014 10:07AM

I'm also creating an app with offline maps using mbtiles and would love to use Google API without need for internet connection.

er...@gmail.com <er...@gmail.com> #8Jun 25, 2014 04:48AM

Hey guys, is this a different issue discussed in this thread?

https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=5017

Sounds like it is fixed?

da...@gmail.com <da...@gmail.com> #9Jun 25, 2014 05:00AM

Nope. We need the ability to never have an internet connection. Currently a connection is needed once to validate the API key. We need to launch the app with no internet connection and be able to use offline overlays

be...@gmail.com <be...@gmail.com> #10Mar 23, 2015 04:07AM

Would be extremely helpful to have access to this data directly via the API. Is it maybe available via another API?

sa...@gmail.com <sa...@gmail.com> #11Apr 3, 2015 06:16PM

No update on here for a while now... Any news on making this available ?

mo...@gmail.com <mo...@gmail.com> #12Aug 14, 2015 07:29AM

I am working on a travel/tourism app and after install users might run the app without an internet connection for the first time. A fully offline feature would be greatly appreciated!

ti...@gmail.com <ti...@gmail.com> #13Sep 21, 2015 02:50PM

I'm using MAP_TYPE_NONE for an offline app and the first time key check is a show stopper for me.
Appreciate the complexity of supporting this since it may open up a back door without authorization.

[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]> #14Sep 21, 2015 02:59PM

News? it would be awesome :)

bi...@gmail.com <bi...@gmail.com> #15Jun 28, 2016 09:45AM

This would be great, we could use for some cool analytics applications...

be...@gmail.com <be...@gmail.com> #16Jun 28, 2016 05:46PM

Would be great to see this opened up so we could use it in app development in iOS and Android.

re...@gmail.com <re...@gmail.com> #17Jun 6, 2017 04:10PM

Hi, those data would be definitely usefull to enable new services like shopping day optimizer and many more.

da...@gmail.com <da...@gmail.com> #18Jun 6, 2017 04:15PM

Any updates?

sa...@gmail.com <sa...@gmail.com> #19Jul 12, 2017 01:18PM

Would be great!!

je...@gmail.com <je...@gmail.com> #20Aug 29, 2017 08:48PM

Hi Project Team, any updates? We'd love to use that in our apps and systems. It's a VERY powerful piece of data

fa...@google.com <fa...@google.com> Apr 19, 2018 12:41PM

Assigned to an...@google.com.

bi...@gmail.com <bi...@gmail.com> #21Jun 29, 2018 02:09AM

Can we please see it as an Api for other apps to use.

an...@google.com <an...@google.com> Jul 12, 2018 03:39PM

Reassigned to Deleted User.

qi...@gmail.com <qi...@gmail.com> #22Jul 31, 2018 07:32AM

Hi Project Team, any updates? Thanks a lot!

ra...@gmail.com <ra...@gmail.com> #23Dec 24, 2018 01:02PM

Please build it...we will come!

Message last modified on Dec 25, 2018 04:21AM

jo...@teleyah.com <jo...@teleyah.com> #24Dec 30, 2018 04:34PM

Don't build it, keep the data for yourself its very valuable

jh...@google.com <jh...@google.com> Mar 6, 2019 04:11PM

Reassigned to gm...@google.com.

[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]> #25Jul 29, 2019 11:53PM

Very valuable feature that would get much use and increase spend on places api calls

ju...@gmail.com <ju...@gmail.com> #26Oct 9, 2019 02:49PM

when google?

iu...@googlemail.com <iu...@googlemail.com> #27Nov 7, 2019 04:38PM

Would love to see this API exposed

[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]> #28Apr 23, 2020 05:13PM

I see that this has been triaged as "NeatIdea". I think this is probably because it's hard for Google engineers to imagine scenarios in which connectivity is not available. As others have mentioned previously, there are large parts of the work that don't have connectivity and access to offline maps can be critical for humanitarian applications. For a concrete example, please see the open source ODK Collect application (

http://getodk.org/) which is used in every country of the world.

https://forum.getodk.org/t/mapbox-mbtiles-layer-not-loading-without-network-connection/21774 is a direct user request with more context on their use case. Thanks.

to...@gmail.com <to...@gmail.com> #29Dec 10, 2020 02:09PM

waiting to get popular times info from Google Places API

an...@gmail.com <an...@gmail.com> #30Mar 28, 2021 01:53AM

Please fix this

sh...@gmail.com <sh...@gmail.com> #31May 23, 2022 04:43PM

This would be great! PLEASE ADD OPEN THIS DATA GOOGLE!