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How to Use Google Maps on Motorola Droid

by dexterhan on Jul 12, 2010

Google Maps Navigator is the coolest GPS app we've seen to date. It's not perfect. It's still in beta, and it's missing a lot of stuff. Don't toss out your portable navigation device just yet. But it's clear Google is raising the bar for voice-enabled, turn-by-turn GPS navigation. Granted, one service on one expensive phone on one carrier will not vaporize the entire PND market anytime soon. But it could certainly cause big trouble for TeleNav and Networks in Motion, if not Garmin and TomTom.

When it rains, it pours, huh, Google? Not even a week after announcing the big multitouch update for its own Nexus One, Google has turned loose a new version of Google Maps that enables pinch-to-zoom support on the Droid. Of course, it was no secret that Android 2.0 had the framework in place to support this kind of stuff -- Moto enabled it all by its lonesome on the Euro-spec Milestone -- but it looks like this could be the watershed moment where multitouch finally becomes a...Read More >>



Google Maps glitch tags shops with rival phone numbers

Google Maps glitch tags shops with rival phone numbers

Google Maps glitch tags shops with rival phone numbers



Five months on, Google Maps is still tagging local businesses with the phone numbers of their competitors. And local businesses are none too happy about it.

When compiling contact information for businesses listed by its Yellow Pages-killing local search engine, Google Maps has a nasty habit of merging the URLs, phone numbers, and street addresses for seemingly similar but completely separate businesses.

"Google has developed an algorithmic way of developing Yellow Pages. There's no people on the street collecting information. There's nobody verifying information. It's all done by their algorithm," Mike Blumenthal, who has closely followed the Google glitch on his independent Maps blog, tells The Reg.

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