Location based services and maps company MapMyIndia has launched a new mobile web portal at m.mapmyindia.com which offers maps, driving directions and local search feature on all GPRS enabled smartphones. The company previously offered a WAP version of its mapping service at wap.mapmyindia.com and a web version at MapMyIndia.com as well as maps.mapmyindia.com. It also offers a native mobile maps on Android and paid navigation apps for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms. wap.mapmyindia.com now redirects to m.mapmyindia.com. Features: The homepage is divided into four collapsible sections - Get Directions, Local search, location search and current location. We gave it a spin on HTC Desire Z and found that it has been optimised for the mobile screen and is quite touch friendly with large buttons for opening or collapsing any specific section. Get Directions, as the name suggests, allows users to enter a start and end destination to receive detailed driving directions along with the distance and total duration. We noticed that both the start and end text box feature auto suggestions since it started suggesting probable places as we started typing. Users can either opt for the list mode to view text based driving directions or opt for the map mode to view directions on a map. Users can also search for various points of interests across several categories like ATM, Restaurants, Movie theaters at a specific location or search for a specific business, place, locality and city to get driving directions from their current location. That being said, we noticed that the directions lacked pinch and zoom support…
