{"id":148,"date":"2006-08-01T11:11:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T18:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/google-maps-for-mobile\/"},"modified":"2006-08-01T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T18:11:30","slug":"google-maps-for-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/google-maps-for-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps for Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/redir?url=http:\/\/www.google.com\/gmm\/\">Google Maps for Mobile<\/a> now has Real-time traffic reporting!  How cool is that.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/google_mobile_phone_map.png\" width=\"233\" height=\"395\" alt=\"google mobile phone map\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wish they&#8217;ll soon include Manila, which IMO has one of the worst traffic congestions in the world.  This will also be a big hit in cramped cities as Caracas, Bangkok and Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>However, GMM is not meant to work like GPS (Global Positioning System), so don&#8217;t use this app while driving.  Simply check what needs to be checked, get in the car, put the mobile phone away and drive safely.<\/p>\n<p>Do I dare ask &#8212; Is this the precursor to Google&#8217;s foray into the GPS arena?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps for Mobile now has Real-time traffic reporting! How cool is that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,28,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-google","category-software","category-tech-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJQs-2o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}