Taking another giant step in its desktop assistances, Google brought its highly sought-after My Location feature to personal computers and laptops. While My Location settled on smartphones Google maps applications, you can get it now for your portable laptops and home PCs as well.
Google Maps have been a reliable source of owner’s location and helped users tremendously in various purposes of knowing where they are. It is reported that there is a great potential that the same service within Google Maps will be included in the much-awaited Google Chrome operation systems as well. It will come browser-based like any of the Google Maps, and as an application, it could be quick and easier to launch after it is turned on. Users are awaiting as well the likelihood that this My Location feature will work similarly to how Prism works on PAC and PCs to date.
For those who have smartphones and using Google Maps for easier navigation, the My Location feature has been highly used to pin down with a blue dot the user’s location within a few meters. This should be a helpful feature to PC users as well, so for them to have it on their units; they have to get the geo-location feature integrated through Google Chrome 2.0+ and Firefox 3.5+, the only two browsers available for such feature.
The My Location feature can be activated by clicking on the button on the top left corner of the map, and then between the map pan control and then map zoom control. After activating, the Google Maps application will put to center the user’s exact location at any given day and hour.
No wonder why everyone seems to be in a rush to see for themselves how they can get My Location in their own laptops and personal computers!
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