My Location beta


November 29th, 2007 - 14:31 | 2 comments

I don’t use Google Maps for Mobile often, but when I do it’s a godsend. It’s slow, though. Trying to pin down the current position takes most of the time - invariably I’ll type in road names / an area and after a 20 second delay it’ll come back with ‘location unknown’, or lots of possibilities, most in Scotland. It probably won’t be long before all phones have GPS built-in, but for now Google have launched ‘My Location‘, which uses phone-mast signals to trace you to a circle with roughly 1km radius. Mine is 1.7km, centred roughly on Stratford. I can then search the local map for a street name, and I’m sorted. It’s possible to search for local businesses too - this would have been handy a couple of weeks ago when I was trying to locate a particular restaurant in the centre of London.

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2 Responses to “My Location beta” 

  1. Gravatar Icon 1 used vans girl 

    Have you tried AA route planner. If you know your destination, and can locate a street name it may be the answer you are looking for, or certainly worth a try. I use it quite a lot especially for long journeys to places I am unfamiliar with.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 nod 

    eventually it might be used to serve up local ads, which i personally don’t have a problem with, so long as i don’t get scroogled!

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