Company Google has presented the second version of cartographical service Google Maps for Mobile for owners of portable devices.

The main innovation in Google Maps for Mobile 2.0 became function My Location which allows to define a current site of the owner of smartphone or a mobile phone on the basis of the information on identifiers of base stations of a cellular network. System My Location should interest, first of all, those users which portable devices are not equipped by the built in receivers of satellite system of navigation GPS.

In company Google mark that only about 15 % of the mobiles phone sold during current year, support GPS. Owing to function My Location for definition of a site modern phone or communicator is required to the user only. And, under statements Google, system My Location in comparison with GPS-navigation gives a number of advantages. Definition of approximate coordinates by means of My Location borrows less time besides function can be used inside of buildings where signals GPS can not pass. At last, work of system My Location demands smaller expenses of energy that is positively reflected in time of independent work of the portable device.

To use function My Location it is possible on the majority modern smartphones including communicators BlackBerry, devices on the basis of Symbian OS (Series 60 3rd Edition) and Windows Mobile, and also new mobiles phone Sony Ericsson and Motorola.

Meanwhile it became known that company Google has expanded opportunities of service Google Maps for personal computers. So, for example, owing to means of collective work the same personalized card Google My Maps at once some users now can edit. Besides there were the new cards Terrain Maps showing a relief of a landscape and physical features of district.