Treo + Google Map = Cool Tool

[+Green Achers]

If you own a Treo cell phone... one of the best programs you can add is the Google Map Mobile IMHO. However, up until now it required you to manually center the map on your location. That's find if you know where you are and don't mind panning and zooming the world map.

 

Now you can add a cool helper called Where Am I? which works with your Blue Tooth GPSr to let Google Map Mobile know where you are. It's said to work without any GPSr too (using the cell towers to kind of know where you are) but I haven't been able to make this happen [yet].

 

[cobra-ak]

I am kinda wondering why Google map people have not worked with Garmin or Magellan to make a worldwide steet detail and topo satellite view function in a GPSr...PN-20 is the closest with USA only.

[+Green Achers]

It roots from one thing

[cowboyshootist]

SNIP

 

Now you can add a cool helper called Where Am I? which works with your Blue Tooth GPSr to let Google Map Mobile know where you are. It's said to work without any GPSr too (using the cell towers to kind of know where you are) but I haven't been able to make this happen [yet].

 

 

All phones built after a certain time have to have basic GPS capability for the E911 law. Most have utilize a triangulation method from the cell towers to locate you but several new phones actually have GPS chips built in. For those phones you don't need an external GPS device but some providers are locking the functionality to their gps "service".

[cobra-ak]

It roots from one thing

money rules everything

[+Sputnik 57]

Google mobile for Blackberry has the Where Am I function built into it. You just press 0 on the keypad and it (i) centers the map on your location (ii) shows a (rather large) circle of uncertainty; and (iii) displays an EPE (e.g., "within 700 feet of your current location"). All of this based on cell tower triangulation. For better accuracy, you can add a blue tooth GPS receiver (such as the Freedom mini GPS--about the size of a auto alarm remote)