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Maps on iPhone: Bike route from Los Gatos to San Jose (part 2)

By Shahram Javey

bike2.pngI’ve overlaid two bike routes from Los Gatos to San Jose. I noticed that the maps look fine in Firefox but on iPhone you cannot really zoom in as easily as you can in the desktop browser. This is one reason why Google is a special application on the iPhone and not just a web page in the browser. iPhone finger interface works a lot better on the Google iPhone app than it does on the Google browser map. Unfortunately you cannot enter a URL in the Google Maps application, you need to search for an address. It is not clear if it is possible for users to display their mash ups in Google iPhone Maps application or not. Does any one know?

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One Response to “Maps on iPhone: Bike route from Los Gatos to San Jose (part 2)”

  1. Christoph Burgdorfer Says:
    July 28, 2008 at 5:49 pm | Reply

    You used to be able to enter an url for a KML in the search bar of the google maps app in the iphone.

    It doesn’t work anymore on my 2.0 google maps app. However if you enter the URL of a geoRSS, it might work – try for example http://tinyurl.com/33mgth

    I don’t know whether paths ever worked. Pins (aka ) certainly did.

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