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Google Wants to Map Indoors, Too

Posted by timothy on from the where's-the-good-silverware dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google maps are getting extended indoors next month with a new app called Micello that takes over where conventional navigators leave off — mapping your route inside of buildings, malls, convention centers and other points of interest. You don't get a 'you are here' blinking dot yet — but they do promise to add one next year using WiFi triangulation. At the introduction next month, Micello will only work in California, but they plan to expand to other major US cities during 2010."

3 of 174 comments (clear)

  1. Tell me when it can find my keys/socks/credit card by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then I'll be impressed. And scared.

  2. Not google! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently submitter didn't RTFA, it's not -GOOGLE- that is doing this, but a company called Micello, they just use google maps. I realize that not reading the article is the norm, but can the editors at least read the first paragraph in the linked article before approving?

  3. "the last mile" by FiloEleven · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Micello is quite literally Google maps for the insides of buildings," said Ankit Agarwal, founder and CEO of Micello. "We are mapping the last unchartered territory--the last mile--between the front door and where you are going."

    Whoa. Big building.

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