Mobile Google Maps to Offer GPS-Like Positioning

[WestonHarvey1]

Navizon Sucks

I live in Chicago, and I have never once had Navizon return a single result - ever. Not in the city, not in the suburbs, not anywhere.

It isn't like this is a small city.

 

[Cleverboy]

That's not to say that I wouldn't welcome true GPS positioning - I'd love to have that feature, to be honest. (I can't see any technical reason why Apple couldn't add bluetooth GPS to the iPhone's profiles.) But I'm not going to deride the cell-tower triangulation feature because of its limitations - it's not everything I want, but I still want it.

Perfectly said. Cheers.

~ CB

 

[rxse7en]

Ah-Wooooo!

Very good! I'm after a GPS functionality as I do a lot of climbing and walking over the moors.

Stay the road and stay off the moors.

 

[telecomm]

Stay the road and stay off the moors.

Nice.

I'd keep out of the Slaughtered Lamb too.

 

[sactown]

I tried this feature on my blackberry pearl and it was WAY off. It positioned me about 7 or 8 blocks from where I actually was. I guess it would be good if you woke up in the middle of a strange city and wanted to know where you were, but I don't see that happening to most of us. They are going to have to refine the technology quite a bit before this is useful.

 

[John Musbach]

News.com's blog reports that Google is set to launch a new feature in Google Maps for Mobile that will automatically set our location even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device.

This "My Location" feature uses the same technology as Navizon and triangulates your location based on nearby cell phone towers.

The new feature is launching as a "beta" as Google builds the database of cell towers from people using Google Maps and is said to be accurate within 10 city blocks.

Google Maps for Mobile is available for a number of phones including the iPhone. The iPhone's version, however, is not yet upgradable to this new beta version. Apple has indicated it plans on deploying new features to the iPhone over time, so it seems likely that this feature may find its way into a future iPhone software update.

Youtube video of new feature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6gqipmbcok

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This sounds pretty sweet, especially when you're in a foreign place you've never been to before. No longer will you have to approach and ask a stranger where you are.

 

[littlewaywelt]

Which, if I were a wanted man, would make me nervous. But since I'm a law-abiding citizen, Big Brother can watch me drive from home to work and back and I could give a rat's ass.

-Clive

It's always sad when someone gives up his own privacy bc he feels he has nothing to hide. Perhaps we should get rid of the 4th Amendment and warrants all together.



The locate me now thing isn't working in the dc market yet.

 

[operator207]

It's always sad when someone gives up his own privacy bc he feels he has nothing to hide. Perhaps we should get rid of the 4th Amendment and warrants all together.



The locate me now thing isn't working in the dc market yet.

He did not say he was giving up his privacy, he said he does not care if BB knows where he is. Sorry, but even IF you care that BB knows where you are, BB will STILL know where you are if they want to.

It saddens me that people do not read very well, or read too much into a simple statement.

Personally I am with Clive, I do not care if BB knows where I am. I have done nothing wrong, therefore they would have no need to know where I am. I would however find it odd if they were watching me. I am sure if that were the case, I would bore them to death.