Cheery Vitriol

Just installed Google Maps for the Treo. It’s pretty cool - basically the same UI as the web version, with one difference being that it doesn’t overlay maps and satellite. But it does support satellite view, and traffic too.

The direction UI is a little weird, but it’s a hard form factor to work in. There doesn’t appear to be a way to just list all the steps; instead there are back/next buttons to cycle through the steps.

This is very convenient for me because I use Yahoo Maps for driving directions, but they’re migrating to their new version. It’s Flash-based, so it doesn’t work on the Treo; the old version is still active, but if they drop support for the HTML version I’ll need a replacement, and it looks like Google has come to the rescue.

They do have a funny hint though - “Don’t operate while driving”. Yeah, right