| Cabo San lucas & San
Jose will be on gps in next 6 months & Google Map
It will soon work here, but with so many un-named streets, it’s hard to figure out how. Realtors, heads up here, this is for you. BY ALMA KNACK Being a pizza delivery guy in Mexico is a nightmare. Half the streets were never named, and half of the remaining half have lost their sign. Only in the city center does anyone have a house number assigned to them. In the Real World, as cities matured,it was often the utilitiy companies that, out of frustration,went out with paint brushes and assigned numbers to homes and businesses. In Mexico, helter skelter delivery of utlitiy bills is not an issue; if you can’t figure out when it’s time to walk your payment in, well you will soon be sitting in the dark. Not recieving your bill is not an excuse. But now Google Earth now has street level mapping on their web based products. This means that users of google maps in Los Cabos have more to look at then just the satalyte images of dirt and cactus,now, actual street names are being entered, and soon POIs will be entered.(Points of interest). That includes airports, hotels, beach access roads, etc. Local techie Eric Jarvies tells us that over the next six the months,all five municipalities of this state will be entered on Google satalyte images. “These same maps and data sets I am providing Google, are also going to be released to local realtors, notaries, engineers, and architects in a palm hand held version,”explains Jarvies. “This software is currently in beta, (testing) and is available for demonstration. It contains over 200,000 titled properties in Baja California South, with clave numbers, owner’s names, and telephone numbers.” Jarvies says it works with Bluetooth (short distance wireless,) GPS, and is effectively the first GPSsystem for our state. He will also be making them available via computer in the form of operating system X and XP software. They are vector based maps, so they are very high detail. Jarvies is also the guy who cracked the iPhone open and made it work in Mexico, by passing ATT entirely. So if< you have one of those gadgets or would like to have one down here, contact him. He opens it up with a paper clip and exchanges the chip so it will work with Telmex. And you thought it was done with smoke and mirrors. For more information on
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