Google Maps On Demand for my Treo!!!
So they finally released Google Maps for Treo so I can run it on my SPrint Treo 700p. With this application I can pull up Google Maps from an application, not just via the web! This means I can zoom, get directions, see satellite views, get very cool driving directions, find local businesses, see traffic patterns (this is a little hard to decipher) all while dragging the map around with my stylus. Very cool!
It's been out for some other handhelds but it never ran on mine. It's pretty zippy with the Sprint EVDO speed. It's pretty big, it weighs in at 423k. It seems to do a good job caching the maps, I wonder how it runs on the slower models and slower networks...
You can down load it directly to your Palm (and other handhelds) from http://www.google.com/gmm
It's missing two features:
From the Google Blog.
Posted by Gary on Thursday at 8:51 PM on October 12, 2006.
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