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Location Now Built-In To Google Maps — In Chrome And Firefox

11 July 2009

If you are using either Google Chrome 2.0+ or Mozilla FireFox 3.5+, you’ll now notice a little dot in the upper left-hand corner of Maps, just above the Street View guy. If you click that dot, Google Maps will show you your location on the map. It does this using the W3C Geolocation API standard

Very nifty – it works exactly like the location finder on the iPhone Google Maps app, and seemed to find me pretty accurately. Here’s hoping that it gets adopted in Safari fairly sharpish…

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11 July 2009