Re: [PHP] Re: Tracking a mobile phone

2005-09-02 Thread Angelo Zanetti
Marcus Bointon wrote: On 18 Jul 2005, at 20:56, Sebastian wrote: The phone would have to have GPS capabilities.. Not true. The network knows what cell the phone is in(and cells are pretty small in cities), and it knows where the cell is. This is the mechanism that's used for location

Re: [PHP] Re: Tracking a mobile phone

2005-09-02 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Angelo Zanetti wrote: Marcus Bointon wrote: On 18 Jul 2005, at 20:56, Sebastian wrote: The phone would have to have GPS capabilities.. Not true. The network knows what cell the phone is in(and cells are pretty small in cities), and it knows where the cell is. This is the mechanism that's

Re: [PHP] Re: Tracking a mobile phone

2005-07-20 Thread Marcus Bointon
On 18 Jul 2005, at 20:56, Sebastian wrote: The phone would have to have GPS capabilities.. Not true. The network knows what cell the phone is in(and cells are pretty small in cities), and it knows where the cell is. This is the mechanism that's used for location dependent services

[PHP] Re: Tracking a mobile phone

2005-07-18 Thread Ethilien
I think that would require tapping the cellphone network, which I doubt they would let you do since it be a major violation of privacy, because you could track the general location of anyone on their network. Thomas wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if anybody has attempted to track a

Re: [PHP] Re: Tracking a mobile phone

2005-07-18 Thread Andy Pieters
Hi I did hear of a gps feature that's been tested here. Basically you subscribe to a service by your provider and then you choose where to forward the data. I've seen it in use in some company that tracks it's least selling representatives (with their approval, off course). With kind regards

[PHP] Re: Tracking a mobile phone

2005-07-18 Thread George B
Ethilien wrote: I think that would require tapping the cellphone network, which I doubt they would let you do since it be a major violation of privacy, because you could track the general location of anyone on their network. Thomas wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if anybody has

Re: [PHP] Re: Tracking a mobile phone

2005-07-18 Thread Sebastian
The phone would have to have GPS capabilities.. Ethilien wrote: I think that would require tapping the cellphone network, which I doubt they would let you do since it be a major violation of privacy, because you could track the general location of anyone on their network. Thomas wrote: Hi

Re: [PHP] Re: Tracking a mobile phone

2005-07-18 Thread Evert | Rooftop
Yea that would be very very hard.. besides if your friend would do the trip in the usa, I doubt he can access the network at all ;) In any case, the most realistic choice would be to buy a GPS-enabled phone and write a nice Java app that does the job for you (maybe even flash-lite can do it).