Author: ELPROGRESO
Modified on 14/08/2009
With a mobile phone with internet connection, even without the GPS (Global Positioning System), Google can locate roughly where you can find one through the antenna of the device.
In the blog announced the new feature named My LocationStill in test stage, which lets you put Google maps on the place which is a mobile, with about 1,000 meters of error.
According to New York Times, Google noted the locations of the antennas due to data sent by users of GPS phones that connect to the internet, allowing mapping of their positions.
This tool works with handsets equipped with Java systems, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile or Nokia / Symbian. However, according to a discussion forum, some users fail to make it operate.
Although this program is not as precise as GPS devices, allowing located at a meter margin of error, allows for indications such routes.
It will also help develop a new advertising system, an item in which Google has positioned itself as the world leader in Internet. Thus, when searching? Pizza? on the phone, all nearby pizzerias are marked on the map.
Because the data megabuscador yet to mature on the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities in Argentina, this service is not available
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