Google Maps For Mobile

[+Scooter Geek]

This is WAY cool.

 

I just downloaded Google Maps to my Nokia 6620, and cancelled my MapQuest Mobile. This application is much cooler and much more robust. It even supports input of Geocaching.com coordinates to locate caches either using a map or a satellite photo!

 

Did I mention the app itself is FREE?

 

I posted a couple of screen captures in my online gallery to give you a look. I entered the coords for my "Under the Little Blue Top" cache (that I just archived ) and show it on both street map level and satellite image. I simply entered the coords using the same format as on the web site (without the degree symbol), and it converted to the decimal when it did the search. Mapquest Mobile cannot do this.

 

Note, you should have an "unlimited" data plan on your phone if you want to use this; it makes use of the network often to download map tiles.

 

The Google Maps site on your mobile to download is google.com/glm. The app is called Google Local for Mobile.

 

The gallery is at gallery.sanctuaryweb.org (click on Mobile Phone Pictures, then Google Mobile to see the screen shots).

Edited November 8, 2005 by Scooter Geek

[cam_oai]

free yes but also no. the GPRS data will cost money and i don't think it's cheap (not here in sweden which cost 2$/mb)

[+Sputnik 57]

I've been browsing the Treo 650 forum to see how to get the java script to run on my Treo. I havent had time to work on it, but it seems interesting.

 

In the States, an unlimited data plan would be a must for this.

[+Pasha]

Looks like it sends a different version of the executable to you depending on which phone you specify, and Treos are specifically not listed. If it's a java app it should run fine on my Treo, so I guess I could just try one of them at random and see what happens.