Posted by: Stephen Wildstrom on July 25 I’m vacationing in Italy and for the past couple of days, I’ve been using an iPhone 3G and Google Maps to navigate the world’s most hopelessly confusing city. It’s not perfect but it works pretty well. As long as I have a decent view of the sky—sometimes impossible in a narrow calle—the GPS is very accurate at pinpointing my position. The big problem is that even at the highest-scale setting, the maps on the screen, like printed mapos, don;t have room to print the names of all the tiny alleyways. Sometimes the alleyways don’t have names painted on the walls. And sometimes the names that are there don’t correspond to what’s on the map, all par for the course in Venice. But at least if you choose the wrong route out of a campo, the little blue dot will tell you how you’ve gone wrong. On...
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