Neil,
There is absolutely BUCKETS of information out there - as with everything.
You can even sunscribe to yet another listserv - at
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Ill just paste a comment from this list serve - may be of interest to you
"LBS is not mostly dependend on mobile phone. You can read these overvies
for brief orientation in this technologies :
http://bestgsm.virtualave.net/other/mobposit/mobposit.html
http://location.vtt.fi/source/technologies.html
Mostly GPS methods that use satelites navigation needs special handset.
Others require network changes - software or hardware upgrade. Network
solutions are then dependent on what is the operator hardware and what is
the vendor LBS solution. Some vendors support only special network hardware,
etc...
Other LBS overview is here :
http://www.geoplace.com/ge/2001/0101/0101lbs.asp
Check out www.trackology.com - a new venture from us here at Saturn - using
the new Benefon Track phone to provide us with the location....
Hope this is of interest and use to you
Gareth Hardman
Saturn Technologies.... and Trackology too
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Havermale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:25 PM
> To: MapInfo-L (E-mail)
> Subject: MI-L Cell Phones and their Location
>
>
> For those of you who follow the emerging 911 location potential of
> essentially millions (purported to be more than 100 million by EOY 2002)
of
> new Java enabled cell phones for the pending 2.5. and 3G revolution, I
have
> one question...
>
> How does one trigger the calculation of position in one of these
> "positionally smart" phones such that position might be passed to a PDA
that
> is helping you navigate to always hard to find industrial park address - I
> am here and I need to got there... sort of thing.
>
> MidNight Mapper
> aka Neil
>
>
>
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