Google has been adding
features to its maps at a fast
and furious pace. Yesterday,
it was terrain and wiki-style
collaboration for its
Web-based maps. Today, it
updated its mobile maps to
pinpoint your locations by
triangulating between cell
towers (or if you have GPS on
your phone, it uses that, but
only 15 percent of phones
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Google has been adding
features to its maps at a fast
and furious pace. Yesterday,
it was terrain and wiki-style
collaboration for its
Web-based maps. Today, it
updated its mobile maps to
pinpoint your locations by
triangulating between cell
towers (or if you have GPS on
your phone, it uses that, but
only 15 percent of phones sold
this year even support GPS). I
just downloaded the My
Location app to my Blackberry
(sans GPS), and it pinpointed
me to within a block of my
location in Manhattan. I�??m a
little blinking blue dot on
the map. Although, if I move
around the office, it picks up
another set of cell towers and
puts me nearly six blocks
away. Oh, wait, now it has me
nearly perfectly on the right
block. Now it has be around
the corner again. At least
it�??s got the right
neighborhood�??and Manhattan
does have a lot of cell
towers.

source: techcrunch.com

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