Hello Lovette,
• Do these gps apps come with the maps or do you download them separately? Also what is the difference between an IPHone and a Smart Phone? thanks. Ariadne GPS uses an internet connection and downloads maps from Google. The default maps app on the iPhone and iPod Touch also requires an internet connection to use for the map data. You may have used this on the iPod Touch to find nearby locations. It is possible for these applications to estimate your location using the locations of nearby Wi-Fi connection points, but without the level of accuracy of a built-in GPS device on your iPhone. Apps that report the locations of POIs (points of interest) in your vicinity, like the free AroundMe app or Where To? (currently $2.99, but has been on sale for $0.99 a number of times), which can update the distance and direction to a point of interest, also rely on an active internet connection. To give you an idea of space requirements, the older versions of the Navigon app with complete maps for North America or for Europe ran to nearly 2 GB in size for each region. In recent versions of Navigon, you can download smaller subsets of maps to your device. All the GPS apps that were mentioned that calculate nearest intersection rely on maintaining an active internet connection. Many of them will work on an iPod Touch using a personal wireless hotspot, but with reduced accuracy in the locations. An iPhone is one example of a smart phone. Smart phones are basically phones that support applications, such as the ones you have on your iPod Touch, in addition to performing the normal functions of a mobile phone. HTH. Cheers, Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
