Monday, December 10, 2007

How google maps locates you without GPS?

This is a nice article by Maximiliano Firtman, talks about Location based services (LBS) and also how google maps shows you the current location without using GPS.

I have demonstrated GPS on my N95 to all my friends here and they really liked that feature. Most of them have GPRS subscriptions but no GPS enabled phones. But now they come to me and show me their java phones doing the same stuff that too indoors ;)

Check it out here.

1 comment:

  1. i am also working on similiar application development. But i am not able to find cell-id database for India. Do you have any idea?

    It is also possible on Androd.
    Check:
    http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/android-access-cell-phone-details-cell-id-lac-signal-strength/

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