In Phoenix last week we used Google’s Mobile Maps on the Nokia N95 for a variety of tasks, and found the application to be a huge value. The software looks for the nearest mobile tower (or GPS location if you’ve turned on the GPS function), and when you search for a type of business — we were looking, for example, for a fabric store — you get the nearest ones.
This is the closest thing to a killer app for the mobile that I’ve found yet. News organizations are way, way behind the curve in meeting yet another local need.
on Dec 27th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
[…] Utility in Google’s Mobile Maps. After getting around Phoenix with a cellphone and Google maps, Dan Gillmor says newspapers are behind the curve in serving the local business search market. […]
on Dec 28th, 2007 at 5:16 am
That is no rocket science, we have had services like that in Sweden for 8 years.