Guest neilg Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Not working on my Vodafone Samsung SGH-i640v...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Leaskovski Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I wonder if they will ever put UK traffic data in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsutton Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Works great but the location is a bit off. (about 10 mins walk away from where I am sitting) Useful for phones without GPS so you can roughly know where you are! :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pd.ryder Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I wonder if they will ever put UK traffic data in. I guess that would require data from someone like Traffic Master which would need a license, the cost of which would no doubt be passed on to us :( :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MAK11 Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 (edited) Anybody noticed that they changed the maps lastt night? They went back to the old ones, without the roads overlaid on top of the satelite vue (atleast in Europe). sucks :( Here's how the "new" ones looked like yesterday http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll...p;z=12&om=1 click on show labels to see how it looks like now. Edited December 5, 2007 by MAK11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bongo_king Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 Not working on Vodafone 1605 (Hermes). It has the cell data on, but says location 'temporarily unavailable'. I'm in Oxford, so a urban area, and good signal strength. From their website it doesn't look like they need several masts to triangulate you....anyone else got it working on this setup/network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johncody Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 Is it? With GPS co-ords and Cell ID? Where? P I just posted a request to google - lets see if they respond: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps...ab547222074827e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johncody Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Is it? With GPS co-ords and Cell ID? Where? P Mystery solved... http://www.googleprivacyconcerns.com/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/g...s-a-good-guess/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ingster Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Works fairly well in Leeds on orange on my touch dual! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Can you imagine if you could harness this cell positioning to add geotagging data to your pictures? Now that would be awesome. GPS enabled devices can do this already - although the time to acquisition means you probably never use it - but cell positioning would be perfect. You could even later use a PC to refine the exact position... P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johncody Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Can you imagine if you could harness this cell positioning to add geotagging data to your pictures? Now that would be awesome. GPS enabled devices can do this already - although the time to acquisition means you probably never use it - but cell positioning would be perfect. You could even later use a PC to refine the exact position... P I totally agree! Many cool applications don't need the pinpoint accuracy of GPS to be doable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AndyO Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Google have just updated their 'Google Maps' application for Windows Mobile, with the most significant addition being cell tower based positioning! Pictured to the right reporting my current location in Amsterdam using my T-Mobile Shadow (spot on by the way!), the new version of the software reports your position with varying degrees of accuracy depending on your surroundings, the density of towers in you area etc. On this basis, the positioning in metropolitan areas is expected to be more accurate than out in t'country :( You can download the application - free of course - right now by pointing your device at http://www.google.com/gmm, and you can read more details at http://www.google.com/gmm/mylocation.html. It's not clear which devices / operators are currently supported, so let us know how you get on! :D P This seems to be getting loads of coverage, but if I remember correctly, Orange UK (yes, I know) had something that did almost exactly this, three years ago through their basic web service!!! My first smartphone was a C500 and on the 'my homepage' through Orange you could bring up a map (yes, a map with graphics and whatnot!!!) of your approximate location, which was clearly based on rough triangulation? I'm now T-Mob so can't check if its still there these days. Google seem to be getting a lot of back patting for this and I'm usually an Orange-basher but in this case I think Google are getting a bit of unfair kudos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MAK11 Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 This seems to be getting loads of coverage, but if I remember correctly, Orange UK (yes, I know) had something that did almost exactly this, three years ago through their basic web service!!! My first smartphone was a C500 and on the 'my homepage' through Orange you could bring up a map (yes, a map with graphics and whatnot!!!) of your approximate location, which was clearly based on rough triangulation? I'm now T-Mob so can't check if its still there these days. Google seem to be getting a lot of back patting for this and I'm usually an Orange-basher but in this case I think Google are getting a bit of unfair kudos! Vodafone (SFR here in France) Has had the same service (with traffic etc..) for like 3or 4 years..And localisition is better than Google maps right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X500+ Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 I live outside of Bogota, Colombia in the rural area mountains, own an E-ten x500+. Downloaded google maps but it does not work, does not show anything only a "dot". I am aware that for this region there is no road maps, but an a previous google map I could see some satellite photos of the region and on map it was pretty bad drawing! Any comments from people in this region? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Happy Dave Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 I live outside of Bogota, Colombia in the rural area mountains, own an E-ten x500+. Downloaded google maps but it does not work, does not show anything only a "dot". I am aware that for this region there is no road maps, but an a previous google map I could see some satellite photos of the region and on map it was pretty bad drawing! Any comments from people in this region? anyone else having trouble getting this to work on T-Mobile over 3G? I have it working really well on GPRS but as soon as I get 3G coverage its position unavailable. This hapens even if I turn the phone on and off again, it doesnt seem towork at all on 3G. Vario II, T-Mobile with the official WM6 ROM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 That's feasible if the 3G cell ID's are different I guess... anyone? P (who lives in 2G coverage!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Disco Stu Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 I can't get it to work over 3G in Coventry (UK) using an Orange Touch Dual. I've been trying for a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest UndeadDevil Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 (edited) Confirmed, it does not work on 3G. Edited December 12, 2007 by UndeadDevil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Does Navizon Lite (navizon.com) work on 3G? Works here on 2G! P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johncody Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Awesome! Google, give us an API :( P Apparently, Navison does offer an API! http://www.navizon.com/sdk_howitworks.asp and an SDK for windows mobile: http://www.navizon.com/fordevelopers.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Yeah, I saw that... FREE API that returns lat / long! Sounds awesome :( P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Happy Dave Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Does Navizon Lite (navizon.com) work on 3G? Works here on 2G! P installed it, never got a position and required about 5 soft resets in an hour! Its not on my Vario II with the T-Mobile WM6 ROM anymore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Works on my Dual...? P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 There is a coverage checker, I can't seem to find the link to it now tho! :( P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WILBUR Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 This seems to be getting loads of coverage, but if I remember correctly, Orange UK (yes, I know) had something that did almost exactly this, three years ago through their basic web service!!! My first smartphone was a C500 and on the 'my homepage' through Orange you could bring up a map (yes, a map with graphics and whatnot!!!) of your approximate location, which was clearly based on rough triangulation? Google seem to be getting a lot of back patting for this and I'm usually an Orange-basher but in this case I think Google are getting a bit of unfair kudos! As you say, most operators have had basic "location based" services for years - the most used one was traffic-line where you would hear traffic news based on which roads you were near. And some had map functionality - but they were slow to load. the difference is that these were always operator-only services, and this is the first time i've seen a 3rd party player use the information - the key point here isn't just that cell-based location is available (no-one used Orange's technically clever but crap service), but that it is wrapped up in a really quick and easy to use application. Therefore.... all praise Google :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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