Google Maps for phones

Google Now has maps that will display on your phone.
http://www.google.com from your WAP browser will offer the "downloadable
maps" as an option, or you can go to google.com/glm to check it out.
It does suck up the data, though.

Wandering around my house, zooming and panning for 10 minutes, used 330K of
data. They suggest the "unlimited" data plan.


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In <[email protected]> on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:04:12 +0000 (UTC),
[email protected] wrote:

>Google Now has maps that will display on your phone.
>http://www.google.com from your WAP browser will offer the "downloadable
>maps" as an option, or you can go to google.com/glm to check it out.
>It does suck up the data, though.
>
>Wandering around my house, zooming and panning for 10 minutes, used 330K of
>data. They suggest the "unlimited" data plan.

Excellent!

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"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In <[email protected]> on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:04:12 +0000 (UTC),
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>>Google Now has maps that will display on your phone.
>>http://www.google.com from your WAP browser will offer the "downloadable
>>maps" as an option, or you can go to google.com/glm to check it out.
>>It does suck up the data, though.
>>
>>Wandering around my house, zooming and panning for 10 minutes, used 330K
>>of
>>data. They suggest the "unlimited" data plan.
>
> Excellent!

It's pretty good considering the size of the screen. I gave it some
realistic multi-state trips. All came in just under a megabyte.

My big disappointment was the inability to determine where you are located.
In urban areas you can key in addresses and intersections, but farm roads or
interstate exits don't work. I'd pay money to see a center lay line of a
cellular antenna.

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In <[email protected]> on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:33:49 -0600,
"Thurman" <[email protected]> wrote:

>"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>> In <[email protected]> on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:04:12 +0000 (UTC),
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>>Google Now has maps that will display on your phone.
>>>http://www.google.com from your WAP browser will offer the "downloadable
>>>maps" as an option, or you can go to google.com/glm to check it out.
>>>It does suck up the data, though.
>>>
>>>Wandering around my house, zooming and panning for 10 minutes, used 330K of
>>>data. They suggest the "unlimited" data plan.
>>
>> Excellent!
>
>It's pretty good considering the size of the screen. I gave it some
>realistic multi-state trips. All came in just under a megabyte.

Now that I've had a chance to use it a bit, I raise my "excellent" rating of
GLM to "very excellent"!

>My big disappointment was the inability to determine where you are located.
>In urban areas you can key in addresses and intersections, but farm roads or
>interstate exits don't work. I'd pay money to see a center lay line of a
>cellular antenna.

I doubt we'll see that as a feature kin GLM unless and until there's a
partnership agreement with Cingular that includes sharing of location
information, and I'm guessing that (a) Yahoo has the inside track over Google,
and (b) it won't be free.

Using the "Select point on map" GLM function you can of course zoom and scroll
the map to locate your position if you know where you are, and you can often
speed up the process by starting with a reasonably close known place (e.g.,
nearest town). I tried this on Interstate 580 out in the boonies near Tracy,
CA, and it worked fine to give me directions back to San Francisco (not that I
needed them).

What I do is keep a cheap GPS (well under $100) in my car, and when I don't
know where I am, I enter my current coordinates from the GPS into GLM, since
it accepts direct entry of latitude and longitude (like web-based Google Maps
and Google Earth, in the format "nn.nnnn -nnn.nnnn" for the USA).


For those following this thread, this new free Google mapping service is
called GLM or "Google Local for Mobile" (e.g., for cell phones), a freely
downloadable J2ME (Java Mobile Edition) applet called "Google Local".
Information is available on the Web home page at <http://www.google.com/glm/>.

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