"Gordon Burditt" <gordonb.sh6xy@burditt.org> wrote in message
news:XrOdnYKg7an-52vanZ2dnUVZ_vOlnZ2d@internetamerica...
> >Please do not forget who the original poster was and his questions: He
> >asked:
> >"can I display my own LAT/LON values somehow without a map application ?"
>
> For some cell phone implementation of "GPS" (this one doesn't involve
> actual satellites talking to your phone), your position coordinates
> are present at the cell towers and somewhere in the offices of Big
> Brother, but not on your cell phone. If a map application can get
> your position at all, it has to ask your cell provider to send it,
> and that may cost money.

Oh yeah, now that you mention it. My first camera phone called it GPS but
when you read further about it, it was just using cell phone towers.

BTW I have met a person with an iPHONE that thinks his phone has GPS and he
even showed me "Google Maps for Mobile" on it.

I thought he had a messed up GPS reading because it had us way across the
street and then I learned later the iPHONE uses cell phone towers for an
approximate location on "Google Maps for Mobile."