Sounds like Latitude doesn't have access to your Blackberry's GPS, and is
instead using cell tower triangulation to determine your position.
73,
Dave, 8P9RY
From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Andy obrien
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 9:18 PM
To: digitalradio; wn...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [digitalradio] Google Latitude, ham radio uses ?
I am trying out Google Latitude tonight, anyone else ? Even though it
is not really ham radio, I wonder if anyone has thought of ham radio
uses for this application? The status page could become an interesting
alerting system on a Google Map. Set your status to your callsign ,
e.g K3UK QRV 40M
Also, if anyone is trying it, how close to your QTH are you able to
resolve ? Tonight I am only getting within a few thousand meters, the
Google Latitude map on my Blackberry says Your location within 3200
meters. GPS Temporarily Unavailable . That seems odd since my GPS
software within the Blackberry (VZ Navigator) has me within a few
feet.
If you are using it, please feel free to send me an invitation , so I
can track you and play around with possible ham applications,
Andy K3UK
