Google is gaining some serious traction with their Android platform (They’ve just been showcasing Android 2.0 OS) and providing free GPS turn by turn navigation can only serve to enhance their mobile offering. There are rumours of the app being ported to Apple’s iPhone where it will sit side by side paid GPS Navigation packages such as Navigon, Copilot and Tom Tom.

What interests me are the realtime benefits of a Google App – syncing your contacts’ whereabouts, the most up to date POI available and so on. I’ve often wondered why a company so involved with mapping and search has not developed a GPS navigation sooner. They look set to assert more mobile dominance now this has been released.