Google has updated it’s Google Maps service. Now if you have a mobile phone without a GPS, the service will try to use cell phone triangulation to locate you. Due to the inaccuracies of this method (up to 1Km), instead of just displaying a blue dot to locate you, the service will surround the blue dot with a light blue circle, and hopefully your actual location will be within the circle.

This is available on most Google Maps Mobile versions, although you may have to head off to the website and download updated service (GMM does not seem to auto-notify you of new versions, nor offer to download and install them).

This isn’t available in every country yet (and not supported by every phone), and there are some questions as to how Google have built their database, with concerns they have harvested data from GPS Google Maps users without their knowledge or ability to opt-out.

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