lakeuk Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Sound like something unreal but a new version of gps is coming called 'eGps' According to the firm, it delivers a "universal positioning capability that will not only work reliably indoors and in zero GPS signal conditions, but greatly speed time to fix in poor GPS reception areas where most handsets are used. http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/10/csr-sho...erior-to-a-gps/ Quote Link to comment
+Mad H@ter Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hmm, it's my birthday soon, hint hint Quote Link to comment
+Custheyder Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 So if you've no GPS signal and no mobile phone signal ... I bet it still doesn't work. Cust. Quote Link to comment
+Team Balders Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 If you're relying on a mobile phone signal for location you're only going to get an accuracy of around a kilometre. Not a lot of good for pin-pointing a cache. Quote Link to comment
+PopUpPirate Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 My Nokia N95 has "assisted GPS" which means it gets a rough fix off 3G phone masts, using triangulation, and then the GPS satellites take over. Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 But there are already Caches which are indoors! Quote Link to comment
+macroderma Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 If you're relying on a mobile phone signal for location you're only going to get an accuracy of around a kilometre. Not a lot of good for pin-pointing a cache. Depends on cell size Pico cells are a lot better than that (<100m) Quote Link to comment
+HazelS Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 But there are already Caches which are indoors! There are indeed... Grrrr those Marzipan lot in N Wales know how to mess with us cachers' heads!! Quote Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 If you're relying on a mobile phone signal for location you're only going to get an accuracy of around a kilometre. Not a lot of good for pin-pointing a cache. Depends who the PAF on that mobile phone signal is. One I used the other day got me within millimetres of the cache. Quote Link to comment
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