I’ve only really been using Google Maps for the last 2 month, although I’ve blogged about Latitude about 2 years ago.
Since 2009 the Google Maps application for windows mobile has improved immensely, especially the layers of build on top of it.
Some layers that are available :
- Buzz
- Buzz from your current location, and add images
- Traffic
- Unfortunately no real data available in South Africa yet for htis
- Satellite
- Wikipedia
- Points of interest, and information about points in the immediate area.
- Latitude
- Share your location
- Driving directions
- The driving directions layer is one of my favorites, as you can now select a start and destination and Google Maps will very neatly show you the route, and what makes this even more amazing, is that you can change points on the route and drag the route around, and the route will adjust to you changes.
- My Maps
- Share you maps with other people or pull in your MyMap as a layer.
Another quite nice feature, is that you can log into Google Latitude online and view a history of where you’ve been, if you gave Google permission to do this, not the way Apple did without one’s permission.