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Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Chris — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:37:13 -0000

Google needs to sort out it's street view and take off the dodgy women on the street corners:

http://www.gofrostfire.com/...

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Simon Griffiths — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:32:47 -0000

Don't try it in South Africa. You can get some high-level details but Google doesn't seem to consider Johannesburg worthy of street level detail.

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Benoit — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:15:03 -0000

For some reason I can't get it to work on my Nokia 8110.

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

myles — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:09:27 -0000

works in Sydney Australia too!

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

turvyc — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:02:21 -0000

Hear hear.

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Matthew Miller — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:21:34 -0000

I installed and used this on the HTC Touch Dual while in Amsterdam a couple weeks ago and it was the only thing that was able to get me around the city and back to my hotel again. It was AWESOME and works very well on devices without integrated GPS. I need to try it on the N95 now that the GPS works much better with the latest firmware too. I have tried other solutions, but I keep going back to Google Maps because it gets the job done.

I actually used it again last night to find my hotel in Miami and I am sold on the latest features.

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

tq — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:17:32 -0000

Sadly, a good friend of mine actually died as a result of not having 'my location' on her cell phone. God knows how many others met the same fate because they lacked Google Mobile Maps, i.e. showing up on an Arctic ice floe in a bikini.

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Geoff — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:09:14 -0000

Pity it doesnt work with the iPhone

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

turvyc — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:07:33 -0000

Thank god we don't have to rely on traditional maps or asking for directions any more . . . what clunky technology.

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Fred van West — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:48:35 -0000

Now, to get geotagging to work with Google Maps Mobile so my photos will know where I took them....

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Robert Scoble — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:31:31 -0000

monkeyleader: it takes about two seconds on my Nokia N95. Maybe yours needs an update?

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

JeffU — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:43:33 -0000

The other cool thing is that it does an end around cell phone providers that lock down the GPS in phones so that they will only work with the provider's pay navigation service (Verizon are you listening; you just got served!!!).

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Jonas — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:17:28 -0000

I survived with Opera Mini and a little bit of my own mind. And I have to do it that way till next year when I get a new cell phone, because my BenQ S68 supports anything but this cool feature.
Unfortunately on a friends SE S500i it is "temporary not available", but this could be caused by 3 thick concrete walls around us.

Does anybody know how the feature works?
Our theory is GPS-style:
- Pings to three GSM-radio poles and measure the reaction time
- aquire signal strength and quality from the phone

The second point would be an explanation for not working on my phone, the first for the "temporary not available" message.

Greets from Germany,

Jonas

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

monkeyleader — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:13:03 -0000

on the n95 you of course hit 0 .. then grab a beer (if in london) or a coffee (if in france) ... wait around for 10 minutes (acquiring signal) then perhpas it will work.

Just don't move to fast (like in a car) or it will fail again ...

n95 gps is hopeless !

Nige

Re: Google’s new My Location feature

Jeremy Horn — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:06:16 -0000

Absolutely! 'my location' rocks! It would definately be very cool if we could start seeing other mobile applications being developed tapping into this functionality -- tons of very cool capabilities can come from this "little" feature.

Btw, consumer software that is fun and easy to use is 'sexy'... trust me, it "ain't" all sexy. (I think we all wish it was. ;-) )

Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
http://tpgblog.com