{"id":663,"date":"2008-06-16T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2008-06-15T23:09:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T04:09:24","slug":"get-google-maps-and-more-on-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/get-google-maps-and-more-on-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Google Maps (And More) On Your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought a Blackberry Curve smart phone and so far I really like it. It allows me to have up to ten email accounts which is probably the most important thing for me in a phone, but I love that it has so many built in features and many more that I can download. The WiFi can be very useful as well.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that it didn&#8217;t have was some kind of GPS to use it for directions when I&#8217;m on the road. Now I have discovered another great free tool called Google Maps For Mobile. This downloadable application puts local information, directions and maps right in your phone.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Google Maps to your own phone and it&#8217;s much more than maps.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where&#8217;s the nearest (anything you want)<\/li>\n<li>Is there traffic up ahead?<\/li>\n<li>How do I get there from where I am?<\/li>\n<li>How do I get there using public transportation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m just getting started with this so I&#8217;m sure that there&#8217;s much more and even more coming. If you have a smart phone I encourage you to<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/gmm\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Try Google Maps For Mobile<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought a Blackberry Curve smart phone and so far I really like it. It allows me to have up to ten email accounts which is probably the most important thing for me in a phone, but I love that it has so many built in features and many more that I can download. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[23],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}