Google Maps Mobile for tourists

Google Maps Mobile (GMM) now lets you view directions, maps and satellite imagery on your mobile phone, and locate nearby places of interest — restaurants, theatres and banks.

It doesn’t take long for a user group to form! Here are some excerpts from the Google Maps for Mobile User Group (900 postings by 11:43am Atlantic Time, Canada).

GMM works in Poland
“… I am most excited about being able to build my own mobile ‘mash-ups’.
In 4 years time FIFA will be held in South Africa .. a good idea to get it done there.
“Working a trip to London, trying to leverage this … to look less like a tourist.”
“It would be very handy to be able to save locations as bookmarks …”.

Here’s a really useful tool for tourists stuck in traffic. GMM can be used to see real-time traffic in 30 US cities, so that you can either avoid the traffic or fully comprehend the mess you’re in.

Suppliers currently supporting GMM include: Alcatel, Audiovox, BenQ-Siemens, Blackberry, HP, HTC, LG, Mio, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, O2, Philips, Qtek, Sager, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony Ericsson, TMobile and Toshiba.

What mashups will we see coming, especially with GPS/RFID-enabled phones?

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