Google’s My Location gets even more precise

After Google’s recent launch of the Mobile Search with My Location, you’ll never be late to your job interview or dinner with your hot date at that new sushi place.

Thanks to the Geolocator API web application your phone will be able to:

* Obtain the user’s current position, using the getCurrentPosition method
* Watch the user’s position as it changes over time, using the watchPosition method
* Quickly and cheaply obtain the user’s last known position, using the lastPosition property

So before this advancement and when logging onto Google Maps to request your current location, this would specify your remote location with a ‘blue circle’, which wouldn’t change size regardless of your current position in a given place.

Today, if you request your exact location on Google Maps, you will be given a more precise location and pin pointed more accurately on the map, which also means the circle will change depending on how close its estimate is to your true location or how far.

So the better the estimate, the smaller the circle, or the more populated the area, the smaller the circle and vice versa.

Check out this video for a more in depth explanation on the advantages of My Location.  In the meantime, keep in mind that any application powered by Google’s geolocation service automatically benefits from these latest improvements, so it takes nothing to begin enjoying the service.

Don’t get lost, and don’t be late!

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