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ie OneStar can be assisted (You have someone on the line assisting you) Originally it meant a cellphone used towers to locate itself and out of tower range had no bearings at all. There are many interesting stories about people trying to navigate with these aGPS devices. I will say this one thing. If your device says aGPS only, then it most probably is cellphone oriented. If it says GPS it has a chip. Now can a device with a cell connection and aGPS also have a GPS (standalone) chip. Of course. Some of the good GPS units (not cell phone) actually use something akin to an inertial guidance system. It doesn't have spinning gyroscopes, but it can tell if it is slowing down in a tunnel system and estimate how fast it is going even without satellite connections. It does that by remembering how fast it was going when it entered the tunnel, and since it knows the tunnel's dimensions, and has an idea of the speed of the vehicle RELATIVE to the initial speed, it can tell you where you are. |
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Well, no it did not mean that originally. Check the Wikipedia page for A-GPS for more information. And I had a Nokia phone with A-GPS before there was phones that use the towers to locate themselves.
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Eric Schmidt: Ha ha, NO Google maps app for iPhone 5
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I generally like Apple things but I have to say it...
iOS 6 maps now include a reality distortion field. I can't believe I'm the first person here to think of this. |
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I generally like Apple things but I have to say it...
iOS 6 maps now include a reality distortion field. I can't believe I'm the first person here to think of this. |
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I have installed the G-Whizz (Google) app and its does a reasonable job of giving me the old Google Maps back on my ipad (after sorting out what google things you want)
Its pretty good as you can access gmail (if you have it) and YouTube as well as Maps (google) but I don't think you can get street view (??) .... PS Thanks to the person on this thread that shared this idea first |
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Thanks for that. I had forgotten the name.
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It's not raining in the picture. What more do you want?
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Finally tried out the maps app. I don't really use maps like this much and have never used the GPS/turn by turn stuff on my old phone so I doubt I will on my new one. I use apps like this when I'm doing genealogy research sometimes to locate towns my ancestors came from. For what I would use it for it's completely worthless at this time. It can find the general area OK, but other than the 'main town' in the area (pop abt 4,000) it dosen't show anything of use to me. Now granted this is a pretty rural area of Sweden and Google maps isn't complete here either, but for me these are the kind of areas I'd really like to be able to use the app if I ever get a chance to visit Sweden.
I'll just stick to paper maps for the most part which I do now, although it's be nice to be able to do look ups when I'm not at home with my maps. |
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