I was really excited about the My Location feature on the recently released version of Google Maps for Windows Mobile. It uses triangulation from cellphone towers to estimate your location. Depending on how good of signal strength you have and how many towers your phone is talking to it can do a pretty impressive job of finding out where you are. I installed the application a couple months ago and never got the feature working correctly. I kept getting an error from Google Maps saying that “My Location information is temporarily unavailable.” By temporarily they meant, “you will probably have to spend some time searching on Google before this will ever work.” (reminds me of this xkcd)
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