iPhone 1.1.3 update: Google Maps first impressions

Now that the ZiPhone guy has given us unlocking on 1.1.3 it turns out the Google Maps Locate Me feature works on other networks .. see http://www.flickr.com/photos/aldiscon/2277258483/ . Might be interesting to do a poll of readers on other networks to see how many it works on.

I hate it! Now that I've updated I've lost the ability to view in street view on maps. What gives? Why did they do this? It was one of my favorite things about my iphone.

I added the new apps last night and tried out the maps feature. It's surprisingly accurate and very easy to use. My actual location was in the center of the circle with the radius about 200 feet from me.

Awesome! this is exactly what I was looking for....

bookmarked @ http://livbit.com

How does this work compared to Navizon?

I was just flying in my F-16 at
MACH 1 and I pressed the locate feature
on my iPhone. It got really hot,
the glass cracked and my battery melted.

So accurate here in Albuquerque it's almost scary! The "crosshairs" are aimed right at my driveway, about 6 feet away.
If only my phone reception worked that well......
I really like this update, it has many things that are useful to me!
FYI: itoner ringtones are broken, but the Rogueamoeba app still works like a charm.

I'm in a suburb of Sacramento, California. At home, it placed me a few miles too far south and on the wrong side of a lake (don't know if that last part matters much). At work, it couldn't locate me until I turned off the Wifi (as suggested by a previous commenter), then it was accurate to about a mile. On the whole, I'd rate the feature a solid "...eh."

I've had mixed results here in NYC. The first time, my location was pinned right down to my apartment building.

Next time, while walking down the street, location was specified as somewhere between Battery Park and Central Park. Not so hot.

In my office building, first attempt landed me right on the dot, but second one was several blocks over.

It remains to be seen how accurate this is outside of and around different parts of the city. For now, I'm still pretty impressed.

I had the previous version of maps on my Blackberry and the triangulation was almost dead on. When I used the Blackberry the route to my job was plotted with the major roads with no trouble. When I did it with the iPhone version it had me heading North on the turnpike just to get to a highway that is literally within walking distance and then perform uturns to get to my office, which again is far off from the beta version I downloaded for my Blackberry. Is there a way to configure the app to find the most direct route? I can live with the closeness factor if I at least could get to my destination.