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simple GPS lat/lon display?
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| P.Schuman 2008-04-01, 10:33 pm |
| If I enable the GPS location ON vs just have E911
can I display my own LAT/LON values somehow without a map application ?
I just want to be able to log specific GPS coords
to be used later by standard GPS units.
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| "P.Schuman" < pschuman_no_spam_me@
interserv.com> wrote in news:AGCIj.23247
$0o7.3203@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net:
> If I enable the GPS location ON vs just have E911
> can I display my own LAT/LON values somehow without a map application ?
> I just want to be able to log specific GPS coords
> to be used later by standard GPS units.
SURELY YOU JEST!!
SELLphone companies letting you see data from what you bought WITHOUT
PAYING SELLPHONE COMPANIES?!!
BITE YOUR TONGUE.....and open your wallet!
(in my best British accent) NEVAH!........(c;
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| On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:01:52 GMT, "P.Schuman"
< pschuman_no_spam_me@
interserv.com> wrote:
>If I enable the GPS location ON vs just have E911
>can I display my own LAT/LON values somehow without a map application ?
>I just want to be able to log specific GPS coords
>to be used later by standard GPS units.
GPS on cell phones is not based on the satalites in orbit, rather they
triangulate off the towers. It isn't a true GPS....
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| The Bob 2008-04-02, 10:33 pm |
| D <noemail@respondhere.com> amazed us all with the following in
news:e9e8v39asf0urbj
aphv3tr98lb12b56on0@
4ax.com:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:01:52 GMT, "P.Schuman"
> < pschuman_no_spam_me@
interserv.com> wrote:
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> GPS on cell phones is not based on the satalites in orbit, rather they
> triangulate off the towers. It isn't a true GPS....
>
Actually, some phones do have GPS and do not rely on triangulation.
And your post highlights something that I find interesting. GPS is the
acronym for "Global Positioning Satellite." Therefore, in order to offer
GPS as a service, a unit would need to communicate with satellites.
Anything else is simply a locator service, and is advertised as such.
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| Richard B. Gilbert 2008-04-03, 4:33 am |
| The Bob wrote:
> D <noemail@respondhere.com> amazed us all with the following in
> news:e9e8v39asf0urbj
aphv3tr98lb12b56on0@
4ax.com:
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> Actually, some phones do have GPS and do not rely on triangulation.
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> And your post highlights something that I find interesting. GPS is the
> acronym for "Global Positioning Satellite." Therefore, in order to offer
> GPS as a service, a unit would need to communicate with satellites.
> Anything else is simply a locator service, and is advertised as such.
Communicate is a slight overstatement. A GPS device needs only to
receive signals broadcast from the NavStar (GPS) satellites. Four
satellites are needed to solve four equations in four unknowns:
latitude, longitude, elevation and time. Even four or five years ago, a
GPS receiver was about as big as a book of matches!
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| George 2008-04-03, 7:33 am |
| D wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:01:52 GMT, "P.Schuman"
> < pschuman_no_spam_me@
interserv.com> wrote:
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> GPS on cell phones is not based on the satalites in orbit, rather they
> triangulate off the towers. It isn't a true GPS....
Actually some do use that as part of the solution.
The problem with this question is that the OP cross posted to every
cellular group without specifying what carrier they use and what phone
they use.
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| Bill Kearney 2008-04-03, 10:33 am |
| > And your post highlights something that I find interesting. GPS is the
> acronym for "Global Positioning Satellite." Therefore, in order to offer
> GPS as a service, a unit would need to communicate with satellites.
NO, NO, NO! GPS is a receive-only system. Your unit is listening for
multiple satellites. Based on what it 'hears' and the timing, it
triangulates a location.
At no point, at no time, NOT EVER, do any of the GPS units transmit back to
the satellites. THINK ABOUT IT. The power to get a signal back to orbit is
non-trivial. That and managing the traffic from a bajillion different GPS
unit would be nigh-on impossible.
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| John Navas 2008-04-03, 10:33 am |
| On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:01:52 GMT, "P.Schuman"
< pschuman_no_spam_me@
interserv.com> wrote in
<AGCIj.23247$0o7.3203@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net>:
>If I enable the GPS location ON vs just have E911
>can I display my own LAT/LON values somehow without a map application ?
>I just want to be able to log specific GPS coords
>to be used later by standard GPS units.
What phone? What carrier?
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| CRAIG 2008-04-03, 12:33 pm |
| The definition of GPS is "Global Positioning System" NOT "Global Positioning
Satellite".
Craig
"The Bob" <nospam@bob.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A74D377F2FA
3bob@216.196.97.136...
>D <noemail@respondhere.com> amazed us all with the following in
> news:e9e8v39asf0urbj
aphv3tr98lb12b56on0@
4ax.com:
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> Actually, some phones do have GPS and do not rely on triangulation.
>
> And your post highlights something that I find interesting. GPS is the
> acronym for "Global Positioning Satellite." Therefore, in order to offer
> GPS as a service, a unit would need to communicate with satellites.
> Anything else is simply a locator service, and is advertised as such.
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| Todd Allcock 2008-04-03, 3:33 pm |
| At 03 Apr 2008 10:19:23 -0700 CRAIG wrote:
> The definition of GPS is "Global Positioning System" NOT "Global
Positioning
> Satellite".
Then Verizon' and Sprint's systems still fail the definition, since, unlike
satellite-based systems, they're not available globally! ;-)
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