Product design question

Design an app for touring a city in an offline mode.

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What this question tests

Tests product design under a real technical constraint, no connectivity, forcing trade-offs in content and interaction design.

Clarify the constraint: no live data means real-time transit and live reviews are unavailable, so everything useful must be pre-packaged.
Segment on budget or backpacker travelers in areas with poor connectivity, or any traveler wanting to avoid roaming costs.
Identify the pain point: can't reliably navigate, translate, or find recommendations without data, and downloaded maps alone lack curated context.
Design pre-downloadable city packs bundling offline maps, curated points of interest with descriptions, offline phrase and translation packs, and an offline-compatible walking-route generator.
Define success as pack download completion rate before travel, in-trip usage of offline features, and post-trip navigation-confidence survey.

Designs specifically around the offline constraint, pre-packaged bundles with no reliance on live APIs, instead of a normal app with offline as an afterthought.
Addresses translation as an offline-specific pain point that is often missed.
Bundles curated context, not just raw maps, addressing the specific gap offline maps alone leave.

Describing a standard online travel app and just adding works offline as an afterthought.
Ignoring translation and language needs, a real offline-specific gap.

How would you handle updates to offline content once the user has already downloaded the pack?
How would you size the download to avoid huge storage requirements?