Google Maps 2.0 with My Location Released

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.google.com/gmm/mylocation.html?hl=en_US' target='_blank'>http://www.google.com/gmm/mylocation.html?hl=en_US</a><br /><br /></div><i>"If you have a GPS-enabled device, this blue dot corresponds to your GPS location. At times, or if you do not have a GPS-enabled phone, you might see the blue dot surrounded by a light blue circle (as shown on the right) to indicate uncertainty about your location. Why the uncertainty? The My Location feature takes information broadcast from mobile towers near you to approximate your current location on the map - it's not GPS, but it comes pretty close (approximately 1000m close, on average). We're still in beta, but we're excited to launch this feature and are constantly working to improve our coverage and accuracy. The My Location feature is available for most web-enabled mobile phones, including Java, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Nokia/Symbian devices."</i><br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/v6gqipmbcok&rel=1&border=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/v6gqipmbcok&rel=1&border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br /><br />Google has updated its <a href="http://www.google.com/gmm/mylocation.html?hl=en_US">mobile Maps offering</a> to 2.0 with support for My Location, a positioning feature that works without the aid of GPS. There's also enhanced support for numeric keypad navigation and noticeable speed improvements. All in all, a worthy update and one that you can download immediately by pointing your mobile browser to <a href="http://www.google.com/gmm/">www.google.com/gmm</a>.

[frankenbike]

Well it didn't work with my Mogul on Sprint in LA. But they did say they're still working on it.

[redlynr]

Well it didn't work with my Mogul on Sprint in LA. But they did say they're still working on it.

And it doesn't work on my AT&amp;T 8525 here in Allentown, PA. Everytime I select "My Location", I get a message that this option is "temporarily unavailable".

[Ward]

It worked for me in the Northwest UK.

Worryingly, its considerably more accurate than 100m and no, my GPS wasn't accidentally activated.

[mhynek]

I have an original Motorola Q on Verizon. I got the location error too. Anyone know why?

[Jason Lee]

Works great on my TyTN II on AT&amp;T in Springfield, MO.

Not super accurate yet but still pretty cool for a beta. This will be great for people without GPS!

Mine said i was within 1700 meters. And actually that was a little off. Oddly enough it was off the exact same amount and direction everywhere in town.. So perhaps it is just a calibration issue.

[MerlinAZ]

"Your location is temporarily unavailable" in Phoenix.

[frankenbike]

Summary: Not yet ready for "prime time".

I guess we should consider this a "public beta" rather than champion it as a milestone release. Fine with me, since it's free, but I'm hoping that Google has some way of detecting the errors and where they occurred. If not, there should be a feedback form with zipcodes, cell service company and phone make/model information that they can collect in a database to target fixing the problem.

[ctmagnus]

This depends on the cell towers actually providing a gps signal. I assume that not all do yet.

[del1313]

"Your location is temporarily unavailable" on a Treo 750 running WM6 in San Diego. It worked in one place today, but said it was only accurate to within 5000M, and it was about that far off. Other than that one spot, it hasn't worked anywhere else I've been.

[wmm]

It worked as well as could be expected on my AT&amp;T 8525 in Sudbury, MA (out in the sticks with spotty phone coverage). My actual location is maybe 0.1 miles outside the blue circle.

[atlp99]

I dont know if anyone is having better luck with ppc but the smartphone version was not able to find my location. Worse than that it crashed my Dash, It took multiple trys to hard reset. I have not had any problems untill installing this latest google maps version, in the year i have had the Dash.
I went back to using Live search. I hope this gets worked out, it would be a cool feature to not need a bluetooth gps.

[Kacey Green]

It worked here in Columbia, SC first 500m then 1700m, I was on the far right edge of the aprox location both times.