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Talk to me about handheld GPS products. A guy we hiked with had one but it was several years old. Wife told me to buy one. Looking for information regarding:
-price
-features
-battery life
-etc
Started by Sack Lunch on
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by 13 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at bicycling):
The gps on the BB would kill the battery in less time than here!
Okay, I luvs me some....
Despite that not being the original (some don't call that a "smart" phone).
A smartphone?
I find MyTracks quite handy for GPS location purposes...
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GPS or GPS Receiver? I have been wanting to get a gps for quite some time and was wondering what everyone thinks would be the best solution. Do people prefer a true stand alone gps or the 6700 and bt receiver? I'm not really that concerned with the price...
Started by Poolshark314 on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at smartphoneforums):
If youre just in the car you cant beat the 6700 and BT GPS if you ask me, esp with live google maps to how the in-dash or standalone GPSes get updated software or maps mostly becasue my BT GPS mouse works 338) because I can run more than....
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Where can I get a list of GPS's compatible with Firefox 3.5's Location Based Browsing?
Or is there some feature of a GPS that is required for this to work?
Also does it matter which OS Firefox 3.5 is running on?
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Perhaps a better resource: Geolocation in Firefox (by Mozilla)
TLDR: no gps is being used
How does it work?....
See this article.
Loation-based browsing uses your IP address to estimate your location .
You do not need a GPS for this.
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Hi all,
I'm developing an web application (jsp/strtus2) which requires the GPS coordinates of a place. What I want to know is, whether there are any free web services that I can get GPS coordinates of a place by passing address or zip code to the server...
Started by nuwan on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Yahoo tends to actually land.
With the coordinates being returned being incredibly inaccurate at times.
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So it looks like mobile phones these days are capable of providing gps data ;)
I'm building a django app with a mobile edition that I want to be location aware.
My question is, how does one access GPS data? Is there a standard, or do you have to custom...
Started by Koobz on
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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Your code is going to be used on a mobile client, you know it is going .
GPS access is platform depend for GPS access).
Will be common for all platforms (just standard HTTP requests) .
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Hi everyone!
I'm looking for a way to use GPS navigation when I'll go to Japan, next month... I have a Palm Treo 650 and a bluetooth GPS receiver, can I use them? Are there maps of Japan for Tomtom? Should I try some other software?
Thanks for your attention...
Started by Joril on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Most mobile phones here have GPS built in, but of course everything or restaurant that you want to go to, if....
GPS for a Japanese trip
I don't know anything about English PDAs and GPSs but I do know about being a tourist in Japan...
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Does anyone know how to turn off iPhone's GPS programmatically? Once I use the CLLocationManager to get three reads of my location I stop updating location as in the code below:
- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:...
Started by James Testa on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It is being called at all (you can do this by setting a breakpoint at the line)..
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Is it possible to get location data out of Google Gears , Google Gelocation API or any other web location API (such as Fire Eagle ) in such a format that it appears to other software as a GPS device?
It occured to me reading these answers to my question...
Started by Jon Hadley on
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There are, however, some....
So, it would then follow logically that if you want to emulate the presence of a GPS an active serial port.
So here goes:
A GPS device shows up to most systems at a time.
As to how you might begin to get it done .
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When the iPhone can't find a GPS signal, it uses Wifi to guess at your GPS location.
When it can't find your Wifi location, it defaults to the wifi network where you activated your phone.
Is there any way to determine when these two forms of location ...
Started by Andrew Johnson on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
As far as knowing which is being used, no, I don't) GPS - Most Accurate, Eats most battery
2) Cellular Triangulation - Still Accurate, Eats some.
And will turn on the gps in situations where it is needed.
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Hello due to reasons of chinese paranoia and google being a bunch of pansies I am in the situation where I need to alter a number of gps waypoints stored in a gpx file so they are are correctly aligned with google map which is not correctly aligned......
Started by dageshi on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Math problems and being pressed for time just went the javascript route..
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