iPhone + Google Maps = close to perfection (almost)

The Google maps application on the iPhone is one of the best default apps on the device for now. I just works and it has worked very well since day one. It got better when cell signal triangulation was implemented in a software update allowing users to get a rough estimate of their location with fairly accurate results but still not GPS accuracy. A dedicated GPS chip in the iPhone and iTouch would be ideal and it may be coming in new models down the road. Additionally, the maps application has gotten a little bit of polish by enabling users to see the hybrid map view (both streets and satellite data), drop location pins and overlay traffic flow data. The drop pin feature allows one to add bookmarks of places that can then be used over and over again which is nice and now I have a few of these. The recent map searches is also a nice feature. However...!

The one problem is that you can't share these bookmarked pins. You cannot email them, you cannot sync them to your browser, they are stuck in the terra incognita of your iphone. If the sharing of location bookmarks could be implemented, imagine the possibilities! Not only could one share locations, but one could also use the iPhone as a geo-location data gathering device which could be very handy for education, research and just plain old showing people what you've found.

Maybe there is a way to do this, but so far, I have not found it. Perhaps the SDK will allow for some hooks into maps for more functionality?

Keene