Use this trick to cache offline maps in the latest Google Maps for iOS

The latest version of Google Maps for iOS brought a number of new features. The most notable addition is support for the iPad, but there's also a really cool easter egg Google added into the app.

Google Maps for iOS adds iPad support, live traffic updates and indoor navigation

Google unveiled a significant update to Google Maps on Tuesday, finally bringing support for Apple's iPad, while adding enhanced features like indoor walking directions and "Explore," a new interface for browsing shopping, dining and lodging destinations. 

Streets Brings Google’s Vector Tiles And Street View To iPad

If you use Google’s maps app on your iPad, you’ll know that it kinda sucks. Search is great, and the fancy maps look ok, but the UI elements are comically big when blown up to fit the iPad screen, and they cover most of what you really want to see – the maps. And Street View isn’t much better.

Google Shows Off Upcoming Map Changes, Announces iPad App

At the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco this morning, Google demonstrated an upcoming overhaul for its mobile mapping apps on iOS and Android and announced an iPad version of Google Maps that will hit the App Store this summer.