On 24 Sep 2008, at 07:33, Brian Butterworth wrote:

Yes, I am sure that it has a compass (that's how the Live Streetmap view works in the demos), I'm not 100% sure it is necessarily going to be the killer app...

In my experience, electronic compasses are utterly terrible for consumer use. I suspect the Live Streetmap thing might work with a GPS Compass (ie, this is the bearing you are walking along) and accelerometer for dead reckoning from that bearing.
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