Comments on: Google My Location Gets Accuracy Upgrade

By: Rune

Rune — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:30:58 +0000

It’s now actually a little WORSE for me. It was a mile off, now it’s a mile and a half. I apparently live on the loading docks of the new Super Walmart.

By: joe

joe — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:55:03 +0000

I agree, until I upgraded to this new version my old google maps use to give me my location within 1700 meters and now it ranges from 3000-5000….way to improve.

By: jessie

jessie — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:06:41 +0000

I have an 8310 with GPS and it still has the radius! I thought GPS was supposed to know where you are? Last time I tried to use google maps to find a place, it placed my dot about two blocks north of everywhere I went… at one point I was on a road and it said I was in the middle of a field. It used to work so well, but not lately. Seems like they need to stop trying to improve!!

By: eric

eric — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:56:58 +0000

I still see the 5000 meters thing. Doubly annoying since it is still there… And we measure in “feet” here in the states. Meters are for Canadians! Blame Canada!

By: FyreFiend

FyreFiend — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:22:55 +0000

My radius got tighter but my actual location is no longer in the radius.

By: PanamaPaul

PanamaPaul — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:50:20 +0000

Im def bummed that this fuctionality was lost…
It was the most useful feature to me for this app…

By: Nikolaus

Nikolaus — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:40:06 +0000

I also have not noticed any improvement with the “My Location” feature on my non-GPS 8320.

I have vLingo installed, so the Key that used to use the Voice Search for GMaps now is taken over entirely by vLingo. If I am in GMaps and say “Starbucks” vLingo does not look in GMaps. If I say “Map Starbucks” vLingo also does not look in GMaps. How annoying.

By: loony2nz

loony2nz — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:39:26 +0000

My radius went from 1700 meters to 800 meters on my 8330. Pretty slick.

By: PanamaPaul

PanamaPaul — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:24:56 +0000

what a bummer
I have an 8320 that had ver 2.2.2 and voice search worked great…

I upgraded to this version to get street level and now pushing the voice button goes straight to voice dialing….did voice search just go away?

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:10:02 +0000

ok i have version 2.3.1 and it still says 5000 meters. my location always says i am over 2 miles from where i actually live. the feature is so annoying. it used to work months ago but the last few versions sucked