Have to admit, I’ve been enamored with the cool GPS products coming from Garmin, Tom-Tom, and the like.

The iPhone held the promise of something similar, but in true Apple fashion, the Mac guys blocked all Google attempts.

So, when Google finally said, “The heck with them all,” and released a (free) turn-by-turn navigation system, I was intrigued.

I have to say , the free Google Navigation System is pretty awesome… The speech-driven, turn-by-turn interpretation is amazing, and the data is “live” (constantly updated via the cloud). (more…)