"my location" alternative / gsm/cell tower mapping - Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General

hello,
since google maps "my location" does not work on some machines (blueangel for example):
is there an alternative ? another software ?
what about yahoo 2 go, windows live - do they have a gsm/cell-tower-location-feature ?
thank you...

I like the yahoo2go program, especially how it incorporates all of my yahoo mail and such. But I didn't use the maps much on it for some reason.
The street map program I am using is Navizon. I use it with a gps, but it can be used with cell tower triangulation and WiFi triangulation also. It updates my location a lot more frequently and accurately than googlemaps does.
You can get it here.
http://my.navizon.com/Webapps/UserAdmin/register.aspx?referral_code=5B5A595B575A
Good luck

hello,
yahoo2Go does not seem to have something like "myLocation".
i tried navizon also: it couldn't find my location - maybe the have good data for USA, but i doubt for europe.
keep looking for alternatives....

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Positiontracking for several mobile phones with GPS via GPRS

We are looking for a solution that allows us to track the position of several Qtek 2020 all equipped with GPS. The idea is that a local application sends the current position to a central server and a webserver displays the positions on a map.
Do you now any solution like that?
Thanks,
Guido
Track position of two or more GPS connected devices
Saw this in another posting...
http://www.jgui.net/gps/gpswait/
Seems to offer some of the functionality you're after.
This company offers a solution which uses GPRS rather than GPS. The map can be viewed from any web browser (assuming you know the user name and password) and there is no limit to the number of units
http://www.cms-uk.net/
Thanks for the information:
http://www.jgui.net/gps/gpswait/ is doing the tracking by SMS, which is not what I am looking for.
The link http://www.cms-uk.net/ is not working.
Any other ideas.
Thanks
Guido

Google maps or navizon without using a internet data connection??

Hello, it's possible to use a already downloaded map with one of those aplications, so you don't have to use gprs etc (a internet data connection with the cost that this have...) I think it's stupid about been downloading the same map over and over...
Anyone knows? Sorry if duplicated, I could'n find anything at all.
Regards!

Traffic in Copilot Live

How do you get traffic to work in the Copilot trial?
Just wondering if its disabled due to it being a trail or always on the HD2?
Don't want to pay for the software and not get traffic updates working.
All the other (useless, really) copilot live services work such as weather but traffic option is greyed out
none of alk's premium live services are available. still says coming soon on their website
Anyone recommend software that includes traffic and works perfectly on the HD2?

"My location" - how exactly does it work?

Hi everyone!
You know everyone's worrying about privacy these days and I was just thinking about the "my location" service on our mobiles.
Does anyone know for sure how it works? As far as I know it seems to take the Cell ID and get the name and weather through an Internet connection. Is that right?
Which database is it connecting to? I know for sure that the place I live at isn't on accuweather, where the weather on Sense is usually taken from and the weather displayed under "my location" is different from the weather for the nearest place that's on accuweather.
Moreover is it possible to find out which data exactly is sent to that database (which seems to be something "Google" because you have to accept some terms initially)?
The phone masts send out a cellID which is passed to google and it triangulates you based on your nearest towers.
Rmour has it google has a huge database of tower names and locations, so once it has a location it can pull up a post code and pass that to accuweather to get back the weather for that area.
It seems that google dont have a complete list of cell id's, and some towers dont transmit their cellid, hence some areas giving my location problems.
google also uses the info for traffic updates and traffic congestion calculations
Is there a way to disable the my location?, i sort of found it in the tweaks thread but i dont understand how to do it.
gamecore said:
Is there a way to disable the my location?, i sort of found it in the tweaks thread but i dont understand how to do it.
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Just go to settings/location and you can disable it there.
you can do it in regstry.... current user/software/htc/manila.... enablecurrentlocation set to 0 (zero)
The database is by Google. It is supposed to be anonymous, as long as you don't turn Latitude on in Google maps. You can even store history of your location, but that is turned of by default, and can be controlled via web interface of your Google account.
Also note that your service provider can detect your location independently. In some countries this location can, or even must, be archived for some time.
Furthermore if you have Wifi enabled My Location will sniff for wireless packets and depending on the APs MAC addresses will be able to detemine a more accurate location as the Street View vans sniffed packets and uploaded MAC adresses along with GPS co-ordinates to aid their service.
since we're onto wifi sniffing etc for location finding, heres an off topic but interesting proof of concept page that can pin your home pc down to a pretty narrow area just from your home ip address, and which works using googles location service.
Its not nearly as acurate as the real location service, but still got my house to within 500 yards, using my virginmedia ip address.
http://samy.pl/mapxss/
Note test page is for firefox, but the exploit if done for real would work on all browsers.

A-gps without the "A"

Does anyone know if it is possible to use the GPS receiver without any network data usage?
I have disabled the "use data network" option in settings>location but whenever I start an application requiring GPS, the data network icon automatically appears and indicates that data is being sent/received.
I know that Google Maps does require network for downloading maps etc. but the data network is also being activated by CoPilot and GPS Test, hence my assumption that it is the GPS radio that activates it.
Any advice on how to effectively disable network usage by GPS is highly appreciated.
Use APNdroid to disable mobile data completely.
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On a similar note:
I would like a program that caches all the maps for the UK to my SD card, so I can use my phone as a SatNav without needing a data connection of any kind. So the phone worked out the route instead of Google servers as well. If you know what I mean.
Does anyone know of such an application?
I think there are a number of "offline" map applications available.
Personally, I have used MapDroyd which by the way is free, but unfortunately doesn't have a directions feature.
brut.all made some modifications on the stock Google Maps to enable offline maps and international navigation. His mod is somewhere in xda-developers (search for his name).
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TheGrammarFreak said:
On a similar note:
I would like a program that caches all the maps for the UK to my SD card, so I can use my phone as a SatNav without needing a data connection of any kind. So the phone worked out the route instead of Google servers as well. If you know what I mean.
Does anyone know of such an application?
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I think all the mapdata from the UK might take up a lot of space on your SD-card
there are offline navigation packages like Navigon for Android or sygic
the have the mapdata compressed into special packages
what I'm looking for is a map manager that can handle my own maps like military maps scanned into JPG images
i once had a program for WM5 http://www.sunnysoft.com/software.php?idarticle=241 that did the trick but cannot find it in android
petertakov said:
Does anyone know if it is possible to use the GPS receiver without any network data usage?
I have disabled the "use data network" option in settings>location but whenever I start an application requiring GPS, the data network icon automatically appears and indicates that data is being sent/received.
I know that Google Maps does require network for downloading maps etc. but the data network is also being activated by CoPilot and GPS Test, hence my assumption that it is the GPS radio that activates it.
Any advice on how to effectively disable network usage by GPS is highly appreciated.
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Google iGo my way, this app turns your legend into gps-navigator. Map of teh whole russia takes about 80 megabytes, so it's not the problem
Your guys don't get it, I too have the same problem, it's not a question of maps but enabling the GPS also enables your data connection for some reason, could be the "assisted" GPS kicking in.
Google Sky Map or just a simple application like GPS Status seems to enable the data connection, even when "Mobile internet" is turned off in the Settings and both applications doesn't require data, at least the first one doesn't.
In Sky Map, having cell tower positioning works fine but as soon as you enable GPS, it turns on the data connection!
My point exactly
No I got the question, and I don't know exactly how to switch off agps. I (and I guess others who have listed offline map application) was actually answering the question in post #3.
I think (haven't tried) once you have rooted you phone, you can change /system/etc/gps.conf and remove all three urls - it might stop the gps from working altogether though.
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