It works great. Within three meters a lot of the time.
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From: mike xha...@gmail.com
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] GPS [was: Windows Active X]
Google is offering new mapping software for cell
Google is offering new mapping software for cell phones without gps using
triangulation via the cell towers. Has anyone tried this? How was it if
so?
I have read that the map makers (now owned by GPS companies) are trying
to restrict how their maps are used with cell phones. I think they
I recently say an car integrated GPS that had a display that looked to be
about 8 x 10 inches in size. This looks much more useful than the tiny
screens I've seen on the add-on models.
While not denying the appeal of those large, built-in screens, I've
found that by putting the GPS windshield
It's breathtaking how god awful this GPS system is. I'm glad I bought the
car used and wasn't stupid enough to spend the $2,000 the Nav option cost
new.
I make it a point to ask cab drivers about their GPS systems on trips in
Northern Virginia. I get uniformly good reports. However, on a recent
I make it a point to ask cab drivers about their GPS systems on trips
in Northern Virginia. I get uniformly good reports. However, on a recent
trip when we got within about 100 yards of my destination the GPS
ordered a sharp right turn that would have taken us far afield. The driver
did
not
Right now if I punch in the street address for my church it sends me
1.5 miles down the road. Reason for this is that 6 years ago they
redid all the street addresses for E911. Before they were a
mess. If I put in the old street address it finds it dead on. Just
this past summer I saw a
I have been told that most of the nav systems in cars, pale in
comparison with the ones you can buy off the shelf.
A lot of this depends on who they are buying their nav systems from.
I know some needs maps loaded from a DVD to make them work.
Stewart
At 04:29 PM 1/20/2009, you wrote:
This
Google is offering new mapping software for cell phones without gps using
triangulation via the cell towers. Has anyone tried this? How was it if
so?
Mike
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, mike wrote:
Google is offering new mapping software for cell phones without gps using
triangulation via the cell towers. Has anyone tried this? How was it if
so?
I'm using that on my work-issued Blackberry. It's ok. It's better where
the cell towers are closer together.
