bugjuice
10th January 2008, 23:01
been a fan of the good ol' Google Maps (maps.google.com/) for a while now, since it knows who I am with Gmail, it knows where I live (cos I told it), so getting from A ta C is pretty easy checking, before I leave.
but, the clever buggas stuck it on me fone too.. (http://www.google.com/gmm/) been playing around with it, and it's not half bad, all things considered.
2 downsides so far;
• it'll suck the 'bandwidth' of your cell phone if you like playing with it (especially the sat pics), so may pay to check how much it'll cost you to play around with it. VF charge $12 for a mb if you haven't got a plan for it (which I don't), or $12 for 3mb plan, and up.. Don't know bout telescum.
• the other one, is that using triangulation from the cell towers, it'll narrow things down to about 1700m.. which is just how it works (cleverly) and isn't terribly pin point (not very cleverly). At one point this evening, I was sat in a restaurant in Mission Bay and showed me exactly where I was. Impressed, it then refreshed for some reason, and I was according to the phone, dining with the fishies about 500m off shore. fresh dinner.. If you have a GPS unit that goes with your phone, then it'll probably tell you which hand your phone is in.
Anyway, it's enough so that in theory, I can't get lost now. So I thought I'd share.. Since we sometimes get lost on bikes.. :Oops:
but, the clever buggas stuck it on me fone too.. (http://www.google.com/gmm/) been playing around with it, and it's not half bad, all things considered.
2 downsides so far;
• it'll suck the 'bandwidth' of your cell phone if you like playing with it (especially the sat pics), so may pay to check how much it'll cost you to play around with it. VF charge $12 for a mb if you haven't got a plan for it (which I don't), or $12 for 3mb plan, and up.. Don't know bout telescum.
• the other one, is that using triangulation from the cell towers, it'll narrow things down to about 1700m.. which is just how it works (cleverly) and isn't terribly pin point (not very cleverly). At one point this evening, I was sat in a restaurant in Mission Bay and showed me exactly where I was. Impressed, it then refreshed for some reason, and I was according to the phone, dining with the fishies about 500m off shore. fresh dinner.. If you have a GPS unit that goes with your phone, then it'll probably tell you which hand your phone is in.
Anyway, it's enough so that in theory, I can't get lost now. So I thought I'd share.. Since we sometimes get lost on bikes.. :Oops: