Apple announcement recap

[Kevin Callahan]

On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:39 PM, David Cake wrote:

> 	I'm mentally translating this as 'most of the places where it will  
> be difficult for me to work out where I am by sight, such as  
> anywhere outside of a (US) dense city grid, it probably won't work  
> very well'.

I tried it last night .. traveling through various parts of Seattle.   
It worked quite well.  In fact, as we were driving up I5, I clicked  
the location button, it showed us were we were .. and I then typed gas  
in the Google search field and it found several gas stations near our  
current location.

Later, I used it while at the in-law's house in a dense area of the  
city.  The location feature drew a fairly large circle around the area  
we were in.  Then I clicked the button that curls the maps page and  
provides you with the Drop Pin option.   The pin dropped one house  
over from where we were.  (BTW: Google Maps always seems to be an  
address or two off from reality).

So, thus far - I'm rather impressed with this new feature.

K