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is it possible to use a person's cell phone to track where they are or the general area in which they are at all times?  what would one need to know to do this if possible? and can it be preve...
My boss left his cell phone in a cab at the airport. His cell phone has a GPS chip installed. The cell phone is turned on. The carrier is Sprint. The Sprint customer help line is telling m...
All I want to know is how to fix on a location from providing a cell phone number.  That's why I subscribed to this service.
Hi, desperate for some help. I need to place red dots on a map of the United States. The dots represent the locations of several companies, universities and cities on a map of the U.S. We're ...
Can any body tell me how to calculate distance between two points (latitude ,longitude given)on a map. Basically I want to know that with the difference of one degree how much will be the dif...
Is there a way to convert IMG to SHP? The Garmin IMG files are not protected. The only way I have found is to go from IMG to Polish format and then to SHP but the result is corrupted and most ...
Hello Please can you tell me what you think would be the most suitable data type for storing latitude and longitude coordinates for the UK in a mysql database. The coordinates are in the fo...
I have a program that needs to compute the distance between two locations using their GPS coordinates.  I had attempted to use the Halverson formula, but my calculations are off by many miles,...
In Garmin Mapsource I have selected 2 mapsets in Spain: - The relevant maps from City Navigator Europe V9 (routable street/city-maps) - The relevant Spanish topographic maps When I uplo...
So I called support and waited for an hour and a half and I wanted to get this info out there so others can resolve this issue without Garmin phone support. Requirements: This is a Garmin ...
Hello I am new to GIS and I desperately need some help. I am creating a very basic tracking application and I use a GPS receiver which produces latitude and longitude coordinates. I a...
Hello All,     I am looking for good GPS source code in Visual Basic, or C or C++ for personal GPS project.  if you have anything interesting to share, i would be very interested that you...
Hi I just wanted to find out how to convert miles to latitude and longitude in the UK. I have scoured the net and found that 1 degree of latitude converts to ~70 miles regardless of locatio...
have nuvi garmin 350 and would love to do a hard factory reset where it restores all settings back to factory state, is this a possibility?
Ok, I have a question similar to the track the cell phone questions posted before. I am new in wireless technology and I am writting an application in J2ME that would give people current tr...
Where can I find an international latitude / longitude database similar to the us zip & canadian postal code databases that are fairly common. Thanks, DM
I know the Great Circle Distance formula can be used to find distance between two points. What I would like to do is calculate, given one point (longitude, latitude), a distance, and a directi...
I see answers post all over the internet for this question. But it seems that people disagree on one issue. Is the latitude and longitude in an NMEA sentence stored in DegreesMinutes.Minute...
Is there any way to convert csv (or text files) to shape files (.shp / .shx / .dbf) . I have perl scripts that generate 100s of  CSVs (or .txt files, whatever I want) and I am looking for a sc...
Hi, I am developing on a Pocket PC using a Teletype GPS adapter. After reading and parsing NMEA sentence data in order to obtain the Longitude, Latitude and Elliposidal Height,  I want to c...
Hi I need to calculate the distance between 2 gps coordinates.I don't know whether to perform this calculation in my database in sql or in my programming layer. I  have some kind to do this i...
I'm trying to lock down security for on my companies workstations. Is it possible to prevent my users from being able to save music files to there local drives (and even further shared drives)...
Hi I need to calculate the distance between 2 gps coordinates in miles. I have seen this post on here which does the same calculation in kilometers. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Datab...
Hi everyone, I'm going to be taking a trip (only around contiguous US) in a few weeks, and I bought an Delorme Earthmate GPS (model LT-20 if it matters).  It came with Street Atlas USA 2005...
Does anyone know equations or math transformations needed to convert between Latitude/Longitude data to North,East (X,Y) Coordinates ? I need the method required for Colombia (South America...