Google Maps Mobile

[jducoeur]

Note to self: somewhere along the line, when I wasn't looking, the Google Maps implementation for the Palm went from mildly useful to bloody cool. Even without the pseudo-GPS capability (available on the Centro, but not my old Treo), they've managed to evolve it to the point where it can mostly replace the map book, with directions, zooming, "find near". satellite views, and generally most of what I expect from Google Maps. Which means I can mostly stop wasting paper printing the things out.

(Yes, yes -- once I have a Garmin or Dash, that will probably be even better. But expensive new toys will wait until I have an income again; this one I've already got...)

Comments

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Pseudo-GPS? Please explain. I just got a Centro (which, BTW, I reeeely like) and have used Google Maps (which I reeeely like), but I don't understand what you mean by this.

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

Google Maps client has the ability to 'locate me via cell towers'. So it acts like a GPS by displaying a guess at your location on the map.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Cool! I knew, of course, that GM was accessible via the web app on the Centro, but I'd been unaware of the downloadable client. I'm lovin' it.

[jducoeur]

Oh, right -- I can see that I was ambiguous at the top there, but yes, I meant the downloadable client. After a year or so of evolution, it pretty much rocks...

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I somehow only discovered the google maps app a couple of months ago, but I'm totally in love with it — even though I'm a poor benighted treo user.

I'm dubious about dedicated GPS units being more useful than a GPS phone with the gmaps app — or at any rate, enough more useful to be worth spending any money on. And by the time you're ready to upgrade from your Centro, there will be plenty of GPS phones. (Personally, I'm probably switching to an iPhone 3G once my current AT&T contract is up for renewal, but that's mostly because there's a particular iPhone app I very much want.)