Mountain View, Oct 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In another revolution by Google, it has now introduced the facility of having turn-by-turn navigation to Mobile Maps. This is the latest technologically advanced application from the Google stables.

Google Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra showed a demo on the new Android 2.0 Motorola “Droid” phone coming from Verizon. The new turn-by-turn navigation layer for Maps will only work on Android 2.0 devices. The question on everyone’s lips was that the G1, MyTouch3G and other non-2.0 Android phones would be able to upgrade or not to the new development.

Gundotra shared some background information about Google Maps for Mobile. He said ‘there were “hundreds of millions of downloads” since its debut four years ago. He also said that globally there are 50 million “active users” today. As he led into the Navigation announcement Gundotra told the group that turn-by-turn navigation was the “number 1 most requested feature” from Google Maps mobile users’.

Users can also do their regular searches in Google Maps and then very quickly get turn-by-turn directions to their intended destination. Google is also leveraging its PC-mobile crossover capability very nicely. A personalized “My Map” on the PC can be set up which can be then transferred to the mobile, and quickly directions can be obtained to each point on the intended route.

This new innovation by Google was a hit on the social networking and micro blogging site Twitter, as many people tweeted about it, like

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