gps

Emulate GPS or a serial device.

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 regarding WiFi location finding, on Super User, that if I could emulate a GPS unit, ma...

GPS coordinates from wikipedia

Hi guys, Is it possible to get list of restaurants with theirs gps-coordinates from wikipedia. Like "AroundMe" app for iPhone ...

Blackberry - error on open Google Maps in browser

The Google Map doesn't render in the BlackBerry Simulator. My application has a "View Map" button which on click calls a Google Map web URL. The error is "ThrownValue in ExecuteScript ReferenceError:GMap2 is not defined in BlackBerry" I did enable the JavaScript support in the Browser configuration Device Target:Up to Bold Blackberr...

Android requestLocationUpdates and time needed to get a gps fix

I am using the requestLocationUpdates method of LocationManager to get GPS location updates. I am using a minTime parameter of 60000 to indicate that I'd like a location update every minute - I don't care about minDistance (I use a value of 0 as minDistance). If I can understand correctly the android documentation, my LocationListener w...

Getting latitude and longitude without a GPS (Windows Mobile)

Hello! I wondering if there is a method to obtain latitude and longitude of my position without using a GPS. I developing a Windows Form application for Windows Mobile 5.0 and above, C# and .NET Compact Framework. I use GPS and Bing Maps to show the user position on a map but sometimes it'd imposible to determinate user position using ...

your favorite database for spatial temporal ?

hi, what is your favorite database for supporting of spatial temporal issues ? sql server 2008 has data types for spatial temporal data. please post your experience with sql server 2008, oracle spatial, post gis .... . licence cost does not matter here. apps anything like that: Suppose that we are interested in monitoring a city to s...

Windows Mobile: how do I know if I have a GPS installed?

Hello! I'm developing a Windows Mobile 5.0 and above application with C#, .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2. How do I know if I have a GPS installed? Is it possible? Thank you. ...

How can I get the coordinates of any given address using CoreLocation framework and not google Maps API?

Hi All, I'm interested in finding out the coordinates of "any" given address and not just the current location using only CoreLocation.Framework. I do not wish to use google maps API or yahoo maps or any other third Party maps API. Is it possible? How can I get the coordinates of any address? Thanks ...

What are my options for accessing the user's GPS device in a desktop browser?

After reading about Firefox's Geolocation functionality, which doesn't use GPS, I'm wondering what it would take for a browser (IE and/or Firefox) to be able to access a GPS device connected to a normal laptop/desktop computer? So far the only technology I've found that seems to be able to do this is Google Gears' Geolocation API or dev...

Can Google Maps plot points based on Hours Minutes Seconds

I'm trying to plot out GPS data that is given to me in Hour Minute Second degree format. Will GLatLng take it in this form or do I need to convert it first. Having a hard time finding anything on the internet about this. If it can take it in this format an example would be much appreciated. ...

Accessing GPS Data From a .Net Winform Application

Does anyone out there have any experience programatically retreiving the lat/long from a GPS attached to a mobile PC? A team I'm on is currently looking at hardware options--as the programmer who will eventually have to live with whatever is selected I was wondering if anyone out there has had experience writing .Net programs that inter...

Blackberry - getLocation() method cannot be called from event thread

I want to get the longitude and latitude of device. I used location api to get the longtitude and latitude the problem now i am facing is i could not able to call the getLocation() method inside button click event.It is throwing error as getLocation() method cannot called from event thread.Can any one tell me how to solve this problem. ...

Winforms: GPS GUI

Our development team has been tasked with "creating" (or reusing an existing) GUI application that will display certain objects (be they people, cars, tools, w/e) in a certain field that could range in size between a couple of blocks to an entire city. Generally our users divide the area off into four or more quadrents and assign other ...

Problem while implement location listener in android appwidget

Hi, I am working on a Widget which will get the Current GPS location and pass this value to remote PHP page to get the Information and display it in the Widget. This is what I am trying to do. I am facing problem while implementing Location Listener for appWidget. It is not updating with the Current Location and It is showing the initi...

How can I get the timezone of given gps coordinates on iPhone?

My question is simple. I have the GPS coordinates of a place and I need to know, in what time zone (and daylight saving settings) is on that place. Is any easy solution for this problem in objective c? ...

How to get the speed with Android SDK?

as topic , I want got the current Android holder speed, I see the GPS location class provide the property , but not sure whether it is available ... any help ? thanks. ...

Confused over getting GPS location in Blackberry...

HI all.. I am really confused over getting GPS location of user...do i have to implement separate logic for GSM and CDMA devices??...besides there are so many modes for getting GPS location(cellsite , stand alone , cell assisted etc)...really confused over which criteria to set..and also some networks refuse some modes(e.g. cellsite).. ...

How do popular routing gps/phones/mapping web sites update their route information?

How do popular routing gps/phones/mapping web sites update their route information? And do any phones send back data based on the users actual trip to allow the system to update route information? ...

How do you get the country/state/region/city/state/zip/postal from GPS coordinates?

I have GPS coordinates on all of my photos. I want to include tags/IPTC data for the city, state, zip, etc.. However all I have is the GPS coordinates. How can I take these and get meaningful info in an automated fashion (I have thousands upon thousands of photos, so typing each one into google maps would not work). ...

How can I use a MAC address to get a GPS coordinate?

I know services exist such as skyhook, but I simply can not find an API or information on how to use it. I have a list of MAC addresses from wireless networks, or even wired networks, and I want to get triangulated GPS coordinates of the user. EDIT: Somebody mentioned that you can't get MAC address information? From Windows 7 I did "ne...