Google Maps for Mobile adds public transport support

Take THAT, Nokia Maps.

Google has updated Google Maps for Mobile to version 2.2, bringing a great new feature – Transit.

Transit is like the ‘Driving Directions’ feature of the previous version of GMM, but focused on public transport.  Give the app two locations and it will try to calculate the best public transport journey between them.  You can then get a warm fuzzy glow by thinking about all the pollution you aren’t causing – although not as warm or fuzzy as if you had been using the walking directions, obviously.

Some improvements seem to have been made to the user interface, which seems smoother than before.  GPS-less phone users can also take advantage of the ‘fake GPS’ to pinpoint (sort of)  their location using cell tower triangulation.

Here is a quick clip of a nice man from Google explaining how it all works:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWNa5b9lMRY[/youtube]

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