I can get about 30 feet on a simp good day bu you're right 16 feet is pretty darned good when walking. lol!
Take care. On Jun 27, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > It should also be noted that the accuracy of the iPhone 4s's receiver is very > good. The best I ever saw was from my iBlue 737 which maxed out at twelve > feet. As I recall, my iPhone 3GS sometimes got as low as 32 feet but didn't > maintain that for very long. I can't speak for the iPhone 4, but at some > point the GPs receiver was apparently given a major upgrade, because my 4S > more often than not shows 16 feet. Now this may be an apples to oranges > comparison because the iBlue number was reported by a Windows Mobile software > product, where as the iPhone data was interpreted by the Ariadne GPS app, but > I suspect that both products are simply reading this from a data block from > the receiver, hence these numbers are meaningful. > > Best regards. > Geoff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Esther > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:00 PM > Subject: Re: external gps receivers and the i-phone > > > Hello Michael, > > Unless your iPhone is jailbroken you'd need to use an GPS receiver that was > Apple approved for compatibility, such as the Dual Electronics XGPS150A, the > Bad Elf GPS Receiver, or the GNS 5870 MFi Bluetooth Receiver as an external > GPS receiver. If you want to read more details on this subject, see my reply > to Lovette's question about using a GPS apps on an iPod Touch a week ago in > the forum archives. Here's the link to the post in the secondary Mail > Archive for this list: > • GPS on an iPod Touch [was Re: An Excellent GPS app for iPhone and visually > impaired people] > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10357.html > And you can use the access key shortcut Control-N (for Safari) to read down > the thread. > > 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/> > <--- 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/> <--- 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/>
