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Started by Brazen, October 14, 2009, 10:13:28 AM

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Caliga

#30
October 21, 2009, 02:50:03 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 02:37:32 PM
Oh, FWIW my phone must be using cell towers sometimes when I'm downtown to triangulate my position.  I do NOT work in Kentucky (not that there's anything wrong with that :D ).
-_-

Same here.  It cannot get a fix on my actual location (closest it seemed to get was about 100 meters away).
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Savonarola

#31
October 21, 2009, 03:03:43 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 02:50:03 PM
Quote from: derspiess on October 21, 2009, 02:37:32 PM
Oh, FWIW my phone must be using cell towers sometimes when I'm downtown to triangulate my position.  I do NOT work in Kentucky (not that there's anything wrong with that :D ).
-_-

Same here.  It cannot get a fix on my actual location (closest it seemed to get was about 100 meters away).

That's about the limit you can get with cell tower triangulation.  We use timing delay to calculate position, but radio waves broadcast from a cell phone don't usually take a direct path back to the cell tower.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Caliga

#32
October 21, 2009, 03:12:51 PM
Well the thing is my BB has a GPS (supposedly) so does it really need to be relying on tower triangulation?
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derspiess

#33
October 21, 2009, 03:18:53 PM
The buildings downtown affect my phone's GPS signal (same thing for my stand-alone GPS which is more robust).  But once I get out of downtown, it is pretty accurate.

My HTC Hero even tries to use wifi if it can't use GPS or the cell towers :lol:
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Syt

#34
October 21, 2009, 03:20:20 PM
My Hero shows my home location as a few corners off ... at the place of a whorehouse.
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Caliga

#35
October 21, 2009, 03:21:25 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 21, 2009, 03:20:20 PM
My Hero shows my home location as a few corners off ... at the place of a whorehouse.
That's your story and you're sticking to it!
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Syt

#36
October 21, 2009, 03:24:36 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 03:21:25 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 21, 2009, 03:20:20 PM
My Hero shows my home location as a few corners off ... at the place of a whorehouse.
That's your story and you're sticking to it!

There's over a dozen "studios" within 15 minutes from my home that I noticed when walking hom from various public transport stops, so chances are good that if the location is a bit off that it covers one of those locations. The unregistered street hookers neer Praterstern 2000 m or so off would worry me more as location. :P
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Savonarola

#37
October 21, 2009, 03:29:13 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 03:12:51 PM
Well the thing is my BB has a GPS (supposedly) so does it really need to be relying on tower triangulation?

Do you have your GPS activated?  If so then it shouldn't need it for Google Latitude; but the within 100 m accuracy would make suspect that you are using tower triangulation rather than GPS.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Caliga

#38
October 21, 2009, 03:34:07 PM
Yes, the BB says the GPS is turned on.
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katmai

#39
October 21, 2009, 03:34:48 PM
Hmm, do i really want to be able to stalk Cal...
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Caliga

#40
October 21, 2009, 03:36:53 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:34:48 PM
Hmm, do i really want to be able to stalk Cal...
Probably not.  I stopped carrying tamales in my pockets a few months ago.  :(
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katmai

#41
October 21, 2009, 03:40:52 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 21, 2009, 03:36:53 PM
Quote from: katmai on October 21, 2009, 03:34:48 PM
Hmm, do i really want to be able to stalk Cal...
Probably not.  I stopped carrying tamales in my pockets a few months ago.  :(

:huh:
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Caliga

#42
October 21, 2009, 03:41:56 PM
IOW I don't think I have anything that you might want.... unless you wanna go all Brokeback Mountain on me and shit :perv:
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katmai

#43
October 21, 2009, 03:44:56 PM
Cal you know you have been top of the list since 2003 to kick in the cajones.

Plus I might decide to steal Roscoe while i'm there.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

DGuller

#44
October 21, 2009, 03:53:24 PM
The GPS in my own phone is not very accurate either, especially when I'm indoors.  It can often be one parallel street off.  My guess is that the tolerances for the phone GPS are much, much looser than tolerances for car GPS devices, for reasons of practicality.
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