GPS App idea

[Koen Kooi]

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Richard Franks schreef:
> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 15:12 +0100, collin at betaversion.net wrote:
>>> All I really want from the Neo is a GPS application that helps me when
>>> I have gone senile and can't find my car in a big parking lot. Ideally
>>> it would constantly monitor my speed and "mark" the last place I
>>> changed from driving speeds to a long period of walking speeds. No
>>> user interaction until I ask it, "Where is my car in relation to where
>>> I am right now?" and it displays a big arrow and distance reading.
>> If you park in a public garage you don't have gps, so your app wouldn't work.
> 
> Would it be possible to perform similar triangulation from nearby
> cell-towers or do they not broadcast time?

That's sort of that a-gps does. It will precalculate of lot of data for you, so you can do
without satelites.

regards,

Koen
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