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...
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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...
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.
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 ...
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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,...
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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...
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...
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I am looking for a way of creating a Bluetooth virtual serial port using VB.net, so i can hook up to my GPS transciever. - Possibly using Windows Sockets, or a third party Class.
Any he...
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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...
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...
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My GPS Magellan Maestro came with 1.3 point of interests. I know there is a way to update it to more than that, how and where? Also I am not s...
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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...
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I am currently developing on a GPS location software i created. I want to expand it into a Tracking software. I understand that i will be needing a base station and a remote device. I am...
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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...
Where can I find an international latitude / longitude database similar to the us zip & canadian postal code databases that are fairly common.
Thanks,
DM
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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...
Looking for a good Maps and Streets software that provides voice. Have Navman e series laptop GPS.
Hi experts,
i am a new bie to this GIS....
how can i get the lattitude and longitude for a given city any where in the world through the online real time server or locally database...ca...
How can I detect the location of a hidden GPS location recorder hidden in or under my car
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I started on a navigation software, and the first real test in my car was okey enough. I'm reading the signals from my GPS bluetooth device through a MSCOMM-control in VB.NET.
I st...
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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...
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...
