GPS

Joseph Reeves iknowjoseph at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 11:36:02 CEST 2008


>As I get it the AGPS is a 'true' GPS. The only differense is that agps
>is faster - it additionally uses signals from gsm stations for faster
>positioning. That's why it's called 'assisted gps'.

Do you have any resources for GSM assistance? All the implementations
I've seen use additional GPS data sent over an IP connection.


> You misunderstand what AGPS means. Yes, it can work without assistance
> data. (I don't know if there is software support for assistance at this
> point, come to think of it...)

There is, I summarised: http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/4


J


2008/6/23 Mikko Rauhala <mjrauhal at cc.helsinki.fi>:
> ma, 2008-06-23 kello 09:02 +0200, Francesco Cat kirjoitti:
>> the FreeRunner will have a true GPS integrated, not only an AGPS
>> system, wouldn't it?
>
> You misunderstand what AGPS means. Yes, it can work without assistance
> data. (I don't know if there is software support for assistance at this
> point, come to think of it...)
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