Check out Skyhook Wireless -- they provide a developer's api for phone and other developers to locate yourself based on any one or more of: GPS location, wifi triangulation, cellular tower triangulation. In order to gather wifi access point location, they have a fleet of cars worldwide that does nothing but do war driving to record wifi access point identification SSIDs and their geographic locations via GPS.
www.skyhookwireless.com I almost went to work for them a little while ago... Dick ________________________________ From: sms <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, April 28, 2010 11:14:00 AM Subject: Re: CS>another question about cell phones Marshall, My IPhone (3G) give GPS co-ordinates complete with a visual map. Location Services and Wi-Fi settings must be turned on though, and GPS is not available in some locations. sms From: Marshall Dudley Date: 4/26/2010 10:19:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>another question about cell phones The thing that irks me about cell phones is that they have GPS, and they will give the information to people you don't want having it, but will not give it to you. Lets say that I am lost on the lake and my son is looking for me and has his GPS on the boat on, or I found a great campground and want to tell everyone where it is. Well the phone knows, but there is no way to get it to give me the information. If I call Verizon they tell me the only people who can read the gps is if I call 911. If I call 911 and ask them my co-ordinates they say they cannot give me the information on where I am. I pay for the ability, but it is disabled to where I cannot use it. It's crazy. Marshall
