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By releasing recently Google Maps with My Location feature Google singlehandedly has overtaken other similar mapping applications like Live Search and Yahoo Go!. What does this new feature of name "My Location...

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[hartjo1]

It's a neat, free product. But when was the last time you found yourself sitting indoors and needing to know your location to 5000 meters? If you're indoors, don't you probably have a pretty good idea of where you are?

Seriously, though, even with an accuracy of 1000 meters, it can't really even tell me what street I am on. I just don't see how this would be useful for navigation other than getting a very broad idea of how far you are from your destination. Or maybe if you were abducted by aliens and dropped off in the dead of night and didn't know where you were. Then it might be useful.

[non-geek]

I am in Hong Kong and have no luck with this application. It always returns "your position is not available at the moment." Do you know that the search is good worldwide, or do they have plans to do so in the future?

[EJR]

[sahli]

I have a Smartphone Windows Standart WM6 where the location is always unavailable. I also have a Windows Professional WM6 (Touch) where it works almost always. I guess that the Location Cell ID in connection to Google Maps does not work on Smartphone editions.

Anyone got it working on a WM6 Standart?

[indiekiduk]

Yes it works on my Excalibur.

If you ran the old version with a GPS then that version was logging your cells and if you try the locate in this new version it will work. However if you have never used google maps with a GPS and you live somewhere remote then it won't locate you since they don't have the data. If you try it in a big city then someone else might have walked around and might have been on your phone network, then you are in luck. But yeh since it only uses one cell position is going to always be way off.
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[kupe]

Maybe someday the "My Location" feature will become useful, but for now, its (at best) 1KM accuracy is useless unless you've been kidnapped, blindfolded and taken to a new, secret location. Even then, you could only tell your rescuers, "I'm somewhere in Northern Virginia...I think. Please come get me!"
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[adamz]

I sometimes like to go on long bicycle rides or motorcycle rides to explore and just get lost. I also like to carry the HTC StarTrek on the bicycle instead of the Kaiser sometimes since it's so much lighter, and has external dedicated media player buttons I can feel for in the pocket. So with this Google Maps, since the StarTrek doesn't have a GPS, it would be easy to figure out what I'm near while lost on the bicycle trail. Awesome!

Of course with the Kaiser, I would just use real GPS.

This MyLocation feature works great on my Kaiser (WM6Pro) and StarTrek (WM5 Smartphone), but it doesn't work at all on my T-Mobile Shadow (WM6 standard)... even with the same SIM card, same installation files. I don't get it.

[Bobbyd6]

[isomaniac]

I am living in Hong Kong

Chinese "我係香港人"

I have been using GMM new function since it was released. At first I found the same error when using it but then upon repeated attempts, it works. Yes, Google Maps Mobile can detech My Location, I am in Hong Kong. Although the location is nothing accurate compared with when using the GPS (I am using TyTn II), this My Location is FREE and can be used for most mobile phones. My experience is, turn on GMM, wait for around 10 sec, then press 0. If any error, wait for 2 or 3 sec and press 0 again. It will eventually show My Location.

Now my question is, is there anyway to share to other person (via email/sms etc) the information of My Location, so that my wife can know where approx I am?

[DaveCoop]