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Get yer new groovy Google Maps Mobile!

If you have a smart(ish) phone I strongly advise pointing the browser at Google Maps Mobile and downloading it (www.google.co.uk/gmm).

If you already have Google Maps Mobile – download it again. Seriously – it’s just had an update to include “poor man’s GPS” – a system that detects your approximate location by checking which mobile phone masts you’re near.

Makes a brilliant. useful little app even more useful.

I love Google Maps Mobile – whether it’s just for finding my way round London with minimum use of tube and taxis or just the sheer joy of being in a foreign city and actually being able to orient yourself straight away.

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Photo: Yep, the platform signs aren’t lying: I am indeed at Waterloo. 

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Antony Mayfield

2 responses to “Get yer new groovy Google Maps Mobile!”

  1. mark walker Avatar
    mark walker

    It is indeed a good thing to be able to carry around on your phone but the location thing is accurate to 1300 metres – and seems to think I’m in the duke of york’s when I’m actually tucked up in bed in hanover

  2. Ellee Avatar
    Ellee

    Thanks for the tip, I was regretting not buying the Nikon N95 for its sat nav, I will try this on my SE instead.

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