Apple announcement recap

[Larry Sica]

On Jan 16, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

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

I used it today to find a place from where I was and get directions.   
It's showing itself useful when navigating while wandering around NYC  
for sure.  I always get turned around when coming out of a subway  
terminal.  This type of thing is a godsend.

Just don't do what this guy did...  http://www.nypost.com/seven/01042008/news/regionalnews/guys_a_gps_crash_dummy_925709.htm


--Larry