{"id":1217,"date":"2010-02-02T16:55:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:02:32","slug":"google-maps-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/google_maps_future.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1218\" title=\"google_maps_future\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/google_maps_future-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"google_maps_future\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/google_maps_future-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/google_maps_future-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/google_maps_future.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new HTC with Google Maps Navigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u275d Also belting out Google&#8217;s dangerously appealing &#8220;free&#8221; mantra is Maps Navigation. It does exactly what it says on the tin and transforms the Android 2.0-based phones on which it runs into fully-featured, turn-by-turn sat-navs. And they&#8217;ll actually be good sat-navs, with voice search, live traffic, Street View (with directions overlaid on pictures of the real world) and a car dock mode with big, easily poked buttons. Will it really kill off the traditional standalone sat-nav for good? \u275e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new HTC with Google Maps Navigation. \u275d Also belting out Google&#8217;s dangerously appealing &#8220;free&#8221; mantra is Maps Navigation. It does exactly what it says on the tin and transforms the Android 2.0-based phones on which it runs into fully-featured, turn-by-turn sat-navs. And they&#8217;ll actually be good sat-navs, with voice search, live traffic, Street View [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,134,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}