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HTML5 Geolocation, GPS Only

Is there a way to make HTML5's Geolocation only work, if it is using a GPS device to get the location? ...

How to make sure the GPS position sent to the server are accurate?

Hello, here is my problem : I have a mobile app, and I want to give the user some information depending on their position ( think something like FourSquare ). But how to make sure the user position is real ? I mean let's say the client uses a request to the server via http : http://www.myserver.com/getdata?lat=X&long=Y ...

GPS and Compass reading

I'm trying to do the following: Take a GPS reading (lat/long) and a compass reading and place a second point on a map 100 meters from the GPS reading in the compass direction. (using Google Maps) How could this be accomplished? Ideas? :) ...

How do I add install my own LocationProvider?

I would like to create my own implementation of a LocationProvider, there seems to be a way to add a "mock" provider, but that isn't exactly what I want. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationManager.html There also appears to be a permission called: android.permission.INSTALL_LOCATION_PROVIDER But there is ...

php simple_xml xpath issue for gpx file

I try to get the lat and lon's from a gpx file (GPS XML). When I do (snippet): $res = $xml->xpath('//*'); I get the full content returned. When I try to narrow down like this: $res = $xml->xpath('//rte'); I get nothing: array(0) { }. Even when the tag(s) exists. Actually whatever I try to fill in after // other then * it returns...

How does route finding software work?

I'm asking at a pretty high, language independent, level. How does route finding (as found in Google Maps 'Get directions' or a GPS) work? I can't believe it tries every conceivable route and chooses the shortest/fastest etc. There must be some logical way of finding the best route given a start and end point. Any sort of explanation w...

iPhone GPS Accuracy

Hi everyone, as I am developing for iPhone, I've just bought an iPhone 4 to test my application which needs to measure the coordinates of my location. I don't have any Internet (3GS, GPRS or whatever...) on my iPhone and the problem is: 1) Without internet I get a 1744m horizontal accuracy, and that's very bad. (I've also tested the acc...

Access iPhone GPS coordinates

Basically what I am trying to do is get access to the gps coordinates on the iphone 4. I'm not creating any type of web app. I can't find too much other than the geolocation api, but that seems to be geared toward creating web apps. Is there a javascript function that I can call from the phone itself that will return its own gps coordin...

gdb and GPS: Cannot set a breakpoint on a function or procedure that is part of a protected type Ada object.

I've got a protected object that presents functions and procedures in its interface. In gdb, when I set a bp on the first line of one of those, I get odd results. Here's a snippet from my gdb console: (gdb) (gdb) b database-access_manager.adb:20001 Breakpoint 3 at 0x1a10588: file y:/svs/central_switch/controller/database/ database-ac...

Android Device mock location provider for Gmaps

Hi, I need to fool GMap application on android device by providing my own positioning data. What is the possibility and how shall i go about achieving it? Thanks, Black ...

get latitude and longitude from gps device with php

How to get latitude and longitude of gps device with PHP? and not through javascript. Thank you. ...

Obtain Android GPS location once every few minutes

I would like to write an app on Android to upload my GPS location to an external website once every ~5 minutes. This needs to have as minimal an impact on battery life as possible, but it also needs to work without any user interaction. (Background: I'm competing in an Ironman triathlon which will take me about 14 hours to complete, and ...

Verizon VZW CDMA GPS support in .NET Compact Framework app

There seems to be a challenge around getting .NET Compact Framework applications to be able to access GPS data on Verizon devices, which are CDMA devices. I've searched but haven't been able to find the solution to this. I heard there was something like a registry setting that needed to be enabled but haven't been able to find the detai...

LG internal GPS Timestamp is wrong

Hi all, I am developing a J2ME GPS tracking software. I am testing it on LG Touch Screen and i get the wrong timestamp. it's 10 years and 5 days different than the current date(now it show 2000 not 2010). I have done some search and see some people say there's some bug in LG GPS timestamp. Can anyone give me some advice on the work aro...

Is there a way to get detailled GPS satellites info on iPhone?

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to get GPS satellite numbers via iPhone SDK ? I am looking for the equivalent of LocationManager.getGpsStatus(...) on Android (link). More precisely it would be interesting to get, for all tracked satellites: their PRN numbers, C/N0, azimuths and elevations. I know the SDK does not have any ...

Find location on Windows Mobile 5

Hi, I'm trying to get a Windows Mobile 5 PDA to give me its location. It doesn't have GPS but I found this MSDN article that explains how to do it using cell tower information. The example does a p/invoke to RIL.DLL, but I'm not sure if that is available on WM5, if it is I'm not sure where to find it? Any good hints or links would ...

Can I get direction using GPS?

I am in need to get the direction of a person using IPhone GPS. Direction means where the person is heading. If he is heading towards North then it should say North or otherwise South, West, East any one out of these four. Is there a way to get this value? Added September 02, 2010 I just got that Magnetometer can help what I am look...

Android Services and Activities.

Hi, I have some questions about the Android service and activity lifecycles. Hope you guys can help me out. I have written an application that uses GPS location and stores them. It must monitor the GPS location updates constantly to work properly. Right now, it's all in one activity. So when you close the activity, you loose everything...

Is it possible to run a task periodically in Background - iOS 4

Hi, I want to poll the location from GPS in the background. So we used a NSTimer and performed periodic checks in the timer tick. In other words, can we schedule NSTimer while the app is in Background? Thanks in advance ...

android detect gps location every after 10 mins

Android: i am using gps check box in my application, which user check this we use gps location of the user. Now i have to make change if user check this checkbox we use gps location and if user remain this box checked then we have to detect user location every after 10 mins and if location is different we have to prompt user that locati...