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If you have a mouse or trackpad:

Move the map by dragging.

Zoom by turning the mouse wheel (or dragging two fingers on the

trackpad).

Rotate the map by pointing to the little compass needle (at the top

of the vertical toolbar). A tiny rotation-arrow button appears on
each side, which you can click to turn the map.

Change the viewing angle by adding the Shift key to the zooming
method.

Offline Maps

Ordinarily, the Maps app gets its pictures of the world from the internet,
downloading them as you scroll. That generally works—except when
you’re not online, or when you’re on an expensive cellular connection. In

both cases, the solution is offline maps: Download the map images for a
certain country before you go there.

To do that, hit (More) on the toolbar → ; under “Offline maps,”

choose “Choose maps.” You arrive on a page of the Settings app where you
can choose “Download maps.” Choose a continent, and then a country,
whose images you want to download now, while you still have an internet

connection. Windows tells you how much room each one will require.
(There’s a “Delete all maps” button, too, so you can recover the space once
your trip is over.)

You can also choose where you want the downloaded maps stored (“Storage
location”), whether or not you want to download them when you’re on a
cellular connection (“metered connection”), and if you want them updated

as Microsoft improves the maps (“Automatically update maps”). That’s an
acknowledgment that maps change all the time (roads are built, empires

crumble).

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