gps

Is there a technology that can pinpoint an iPhone's *exact* location (to the feet/couple feet, indoors)?

Is there is a way to determine an iPhone's exact location (indoors, and to a distance of just a couple of feet) via use of radio/antenna's or some other infrastructure located around premises (i.e a hospital, shopping mall, school). Will appreciate any ideas/direction (technologies, research) as for how to overcome this limitation. ...

Win Mobile6 GPS Inaccuracy

Hello, I am writing an application that utilizes the built in GPS on the Motorola MC75. I have it configured properly and running the test solution that comes with Win6 SDK. It works fine and the coordinates when plugged into Google maps pick an accurate location. However the longitude and latitude fluxes substantially (substantially wh...

Is it possible to integrate GPS system in an asp.net web application?

One of my client wants to track his cars/cabs from his own house... So i thought of getting help from our fellow users of SO... Is it possible to integrate GPS system in an asp.net web application? If so,How to get started... EDIT: Any webservice that does it for me? Should i use google maps api? I dont know where to start.. Any sugges...

developing location/map based web site

Hi, I wanna start developing a map-based web site. At first I ordered a regulat Gps device just to test the site, later on I would like to use Iphone's gps and other cell devices. So I need something pretty generic. I searched the web for map-based development framework and come up with too many of them : Geo server, Map server, Open l...

GpsStatus.Listener and GPS_EVENT_FIRST_FIX event

Hi: When I register a GpsStatus.Listener i do not get the event GPS_EVENT_FIRST_FIX. I do get the GPS_EVENT_SATELLITE_STATUS event. Does anybody already noticed this behavior? ...

Is there a way to find out if iPhone obtained CLLocation by A-GPS, cell tower signal strength or wifi?

Hi, I'm trying to find a property that indicates how iPhone physically obtains CLLocation? As far as I am aware iPhone gets CLLocation via either: 1) GPS 2) Cell tower triangulation 3) Wifi ID and signal strength Can I programmatically refer to something in the publicly accessible libraries to get this? If there isn't a way to ident...

Street to List of GPS Coordinates

I have two GPS Coordinates, (x1, y1) and (x2, y2)... I there any free information available where I could A) retrieve the street coordinates that connects the coordinates, and B) retrieve all coordinates along the path connecting them. So, two coordinates... what are all the gps coordinates between them and needs to be realistic to act...

Accessing GPS data on LG VX8360 phone

I am trying to design a web page that provides content depending on the user's location. I made a simple page that tries to access the navigator.geolocation object and report whether it exists, and if it does, the latitude and longitude reported by the browser. I tested it on my home computer, which is running Firefox, and it worked fine...

get location on iphone ONLY from the GPS - not the wifi network

hey guys i am creating an app that uses location- everything works swimmingly except one thing- when i come home my iphone connects to my local wifi network and instead of getting my location using the gps in the phone it tries to get it by figuring out where my wifi network is connected to- if i turn my wifi off it keeps an accurate ...

Reverse geocode using MKReverseGeocoder

Google Terms says I can only use reverse geocoding in conjunction with a google map. Is it ok if you first see the address in a uitableviewcell and then on a click see the location in a map (is this "in conjunction") ? Tried two other free services but they don't find all locations as it seems. Edit I see in an answer that I need to c...

Create a web based GPS Skyplot

I am looking to create a web based GPS skyplot. Currently just in the planning stages. Was wondering if anyone knew any javascript libraries or such in which this would be best to start with or have a look at, of if you have done something similar before. I know Flot is decent for plotting but unsure if it would be easy in this scenario...

does wi-fi effect GPS accuracy

Hello i want to know if wi-fi effects GPS accuracy if i used Gps using CLLocation manger in my application ...

GPS gets wrong Position

basicly the Location-Controller in my App works. But if it runs over a long time, it gets wrong Positions without recognizing it. I think the gps-buffer overflows or kind of that. here's my code for the didUpdate-Event - (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLo...

Corelocation framework does not produce accurate distances

Hi All, I am developing an application that computes the distance travelled by the person. I am testing it on a iPad (Device-3.2). My iPad is using WiFi to get the current location. The results are highly inaccurate even though i have filtered the values. I don't know if GPS will give me accurate results. I am pasting the entire code be...

Android - Reliably getting the current location

My app checks at a specific time whether a user is at a given location. I use the alarm manager to start a service that makes this call: locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(bestProvider, 0, 0, listener); And also checks: locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(bestProvider); But I'm having problems when running on a real device. F...

Give wrong GPS coordinates at first time

hi to all i want to know why location manager in iphone gives wrong coordinate at first time when run application.Due to this my distance is come 100 meter at start of application and my average speed is also effected due to this ...

Can iPhone GPS give accurate speed for a running application?

I am considering building an iPhone GPS app to assist runners. It would need to get an accurate speed reading (within 1mph) every 10 seconds. Is the iPhone 3GS or the new iPhone 4 capable of giving a reading this accurate? ...

Moving a camera along a path in KML

Hi, I'm trying to generate KML(using JAK) that will contain first person perspective animation from my GPS data. So I have collection of points (long, lat) sorted by timestamps and I would like to iterate over it and crate series of <gx:FlyTo> nodes. Unfortunately camera doesn't move as I expected :(. My current algorithm: find beari...

how to disable gps lookup in android again

How am i able to Stop GPS from receiving new signals? was searching for it, just use: if u initialize a LocationsManager Object mLocationManager_ = (LocationManager) mContext_.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE); add an location listener, GPS is starting to a GPS-Lock, mLocationListener_ = new MyLocationListener(mContext_); ...

What GPS Dongles work with Windows 7 and the .Net 4.0 System.Device.Location Namespace?

Hi, I want to add full GPS support into my application. The .Net 4.0 System.Device.Location namespace information here is perfect for my needs. When this was first announced and the Beta release was out, I got a GPS dongle, but I could never get Windows 7 to see it as a sensor and therefore make use of System.Device.Location. After many...