[email protected] wrote: >There's a pulldown menu at the top of the screen. I can manually turn the gps >on and off from there. If it's off my Google maps and similar programmes won't >work. > >I leave it off unless needed to run a programme both for power use and reasons >of paranoia. ;-) > >I don't know if I can be "tracked" with it off. I hope not.
You can and you are: Your approximate position is triangulated through the cell towers within range. Much less precise than GPS, but still useful for some purposes. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
