Where am I?
December 1st 2007 02:51
We spent a lot of time looking at our GPS system while we were in England. (She was affectionately known as Malvina.) Without her, we would have spent most of our time getting lost, or not being as adventurous as we were. She gave us enough security to be able to say, Well, let’s go down this road instead, and know that we’d find our way home still. Very rarely did she put us out, and then it was usually only because some new piece of highway construction had taken place, and her system wasn’t quite up-to-date.
In a similar vein, Google has now expanded its Google Map service to include a My Location service. This uses your web-enabled mobile phone to indicate where you are at any time. It lacks definitive detail at the moment, as it’s still in beta, but it’s good enough to give you sufficient idea of your location to help you when necessary.
It’s not quite GPS, although if your phone is attuned to GPS that helps.
I won’t try to explain it in detail, as there’s a very good YouTube video available. I don’t know who the narrator is, but he sounds very similar to the guy on another video who explained what podcasting was. There’s something about the way he says words like, curry, and his pronunciation of the u sound that’s unusual.
In a similar vein, Google has now expanded its Google Map service to include a My Location service. This uses your web-enabled mobile phone to indicate where you are at any time. It lacks definitive detail at the moment, as it’s still in beta, but it’s good enough to give you sufficient idea of your location to help you when necessary.
It’s not quite GPS, although if your phone is attuned to GPS that helps.
I won’t try to explain it in detail, as there’s a very good YouTube video available. I don’t know who the narrator is, but he sounds very similar to the guy on another video who explained what podcasting was. There’s something about the way he says words like, curry, and his pronunciation of the u sound that’s unusual.
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