{"id":87,"date":"2007-09-19T20:33:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T19:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.171270.com\/2007\/09\/19\/virtual-gps-on-the-iphone\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:08:13","slug":"virtual-gps-on-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/virtual-gps-on-the-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"(Virtual) GPS on the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/shema_navizon_tech.jpg\" title=\"Navizon Virtual GPS\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/shema_navizon_tech.jpg\" alt=\"Navizon Virtual GPS\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the features missing on the iPhone is GPS. I was used to have it on the Nokia N95, and although I didn&#8217;t use it very often, it came in handy a few times. Well, the iPhone has Assisted GPS since today. Well, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>When checking for new application within the installer, I noticed a new app called Navizon GPS. I have to say it is rather cool. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navizon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navizon<\/a> calls its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navizon.com\/navizon_v-gps.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual GPS<\/a> service &#8220;Peer-to-Peer Wireless Positioning&#8221;. It is based on a database which is populated by users of the Navizon software on mobile phones with a real GPS receiver included. The geo-coded information is then combined with the information received from the cellular network and WIFI networks. This combined information is then available for users of the system without a GPS receiver included in their phone.<\/p>\n<p>It will in most case never be as precise as real\u00c2\u00a0 GPS, or even the A-GPS on the N95, but it still allows you to locate yor position in a certain area, as long as the area is covered by users with GPS equipped phones in the past.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, the location found by my iPhone was a few hundred meters away from my home here in London. Still very sweet!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 One of the features missing on the iPhone is GPS. I was used to have it on the Nokia N95, and although I didn&#8217;t use it very often, it came in handy a few times. Well, the iPhone has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/virtual-gps-on-the-iphone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-iphone","category-tech-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}