"News" <News@Group.name> wrote in message
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> Jack Hamilton wrote:
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> > George <george@nospam.invalid> wrote:
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> >>D wrote:
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> >>>On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:01:52 GMT, "P.Schuman"
> >>><pschuman_no_spam_me@interserv.com> wrote:
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> >>>>If I enable the GPS location ON vs just have E911
> >>>>can I display my own LAT/LON values somehow without a map application
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> >>>>I just want to be able to log specific GPS coords
> >>>>to be used later by standard GPS units.
> >>>
> >>>GPS on cell phones is not based on the satalites in orbit, rather they
> >>>triangulate off the towers. It isn't a true GPS....
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> >>Actually some do use that as part of the solution.
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> >>The problem with this question is that the OP cross posted to every
> >>cellular group without specifying what carrier they use and what phone
> >>they use.
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> > And yet no one has answered the question for any phone or any carrier.
> > Perhaps someone will have to write a custom program. Does GPS return
> > lat/lon, or does it use some other location scheme?
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> The HP iPaq hw65**/67**/69** GPS radio outputs NMEA 0183 Geographic
> Latitude and Longitude (GLL) format coordinates, independent of carrier.


I believe that pretty much every GPS out there uses the "NMEA 0183"
protocol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMEA_0183

Even the Garmin Mobile 10, a BT GPS uses "NMEA 0183."

More info on the "Protocol" used by the "Garmin Mobile 10":
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/store/as...ile10_0706.pdf

But the Garmin Mobile 10 will change it's protocol when used with Garmin
Mobile XT software and it takes a power cycle to return it to using "NMEA
0183." BTW I learned that from a tech at Garmin.

That means that other programs that expect "NMEA 0183" like "Google Maps for
Mobile" will not work with the "Garmin Mobile 10" after using it with the
"Garmin Mobile XT" software until you cycle power on the device.