When Andy Rubin showed off the new Motorola tablet running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, he also gave a preview of a new version of Google Maps for mobile, Google Maps 5.0.
This new version of Google Maps for mobile, and Google Maps 5.0 adds support for dynamic map drawing, which uses vectors instead of flat images, and the new version can also now cache journeys which you search for on a regular basis.
Google will initially be building outlines of 100 cities, with more to come in the future and these cities can be navigated using multi-touch gestures.
The new version of Google Maps for mobile will be compatible with any Android smartphone running Android 1.6 and above, although you will need one of the following smartphones to make use of the full features.
* Galaxy S
* Droid
* Droid X
* Droid 2
* Droid Incredible
* Evo
* Nexus S
* G2
via Slashgear
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