Is your mobile phone screen not cluttered enough? That’ll soon change with a new feature in Google Maps for mobile: support for multiple layers. That’s right, you can now load all those pretty layers, such as Wikipedia or search results, and view them on your map at the same time. To save you from disappointment (which I felt when I realized that this doesn’t work on my Sony Ericsson P1i), let’s start with the supported platforms: Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile. Support for other platforms, says Google, is coming soon. On to the good news; you can add layers such as public transit, traffic (incidents included), local search results, Latitude friend locations and Wikipedia to Google Maps on your mobile phone. If you’ve created your own maps through My Maps, you can load them too; and the best part is, you can combine several layers at once. Layers make it

easier and more useful to find and interact with geographic content, like public transit, traffic (with incidents!), local search results, Latitude friend locations, Wikipedia and more. You can also see your own My Maps content as a layer on Google Maps for mobile, and you can combine all of the above at the same time. To start working with layers, hit “2″ or select “Layers” from the menu. Hopefully, Apple will soon make that iPhone-style netbook/tablet thing everyone’s talking about, so we can have more screen estate for features such as this one, because – however nice this feature sounds – several layers of information on a tiny mobile screen spells “confusion”. Reviews: Google , Google Maps , Symbian S60 , Wikipedia Tags: Google Maps , layers , Mobile 2.0 , wikipedia

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Get Traffic, Wikipedia, and More on Google Maps for Mobile