Easwar Hariharan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 08-Jun-08, at 1:19 PM, Easwar Hariharan wrote: >> >> >>> Could we do things with GPS enabled phones which are available in >>> India?Something which is widely available,like the N-series which >>> is widely >>> available,but I don't know whether it's GPS enabled. >>> >> question is whether they are enabled to log - like the openmoko. >> Enabled just to show position is not much use for creating content >> > > That's exactly what I said earlier,quoted below.If they are not enabled,we > will have to write the software to enable them. > >> That means we could,potentially,contribute to freemap with >GPS enabled >> > cell phones if we had a way to *record* the >position(and co-ordinates)of > landmarks > Nokia's N82 has a mapping service but its not accurate as it uses cell towers to approximate location. I had even installed google maps in it and it shows an approximate location of your phone.
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