Siobhan O'Flynn's 1001 Tales http://1001tales.posterous.com tracing the roots & tendrils of storytelling today posterous.com Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:37:00 -0800 Marissa Mayer: 40% Of Google Maps Usage Is Mobile (And There Are 150 Million Mobile Users) http://1001tales.posterous.com/marissa-mayer-40-of-google-maps-usage-is-mobi http://1001tales.posterous.com/marissa-mayer-40-of-google-maps-usage-is-mobi
  • Mayer revealed that 40% of Google Maps usage is mobile. And Christmas and New Years day had mobile usage of Maps surpass the desktop — which is a first for Google products. Google Maps now has 150 million mobile users. To put that in context, Maps for mobile had 100 million users in August of last year.
  • Next, the local team showed off the current version of Google Maps, which uses vectors to render maps. Because these vectors take up 1/100 of the size of the old tile system, they can be cached, and can include 3D representations of buildings.
  • Next up: Google Maps Navigation, the GPS feature included on Android phones. Users drive 12 billion miles a year with Google Maps Navigation. Navigation recently launched a feature that automatically routes people around traffic — which is saving users a total of 2 years per day in time that would have been spent in traffic.
  • Read the full article on TechCrunch.com

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