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Abbreviation for Global Positioning System; a navigational system using satellite signals to fix the location of a radio receiver on or above the earth's surface. Also "GPS" refers to the radio receiver used to receive GPS signals.

Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides reliable location and time information in all weather and at all times and anywhere on or near the Earth when and where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

It is freely accessible to anybody with a GPS receiver. Apple, Google, and other mobile providers have developed frameworks to deal with the location services calculated from GPS, WiFi or Cell Tower.

More information can be found at:

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Android GPS location accuracy issue

I am working on gps tracking apps in android. Here is my code architecture: BackgroundSyncService : A service class that is used for getting location update. Here GoogleApiClient is initialized and implements others Location related…
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Getting GPS coordinates on Windows phone 7

How can I get the current GPS coordinates on Windows Phone 7?
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How to get coordinates of an address in android

How do i get gps co-ordinates of the location/address entered by user in android ?
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How does GPS in a mobile phone work exactly?

I assume it doesn't connect to anything (other than the satelite I guess), is this right? Or it does and has some kind of charge?
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Android Location Manager, Get GPS location ,if no GPS then get to Network Provider location

I am using this given below code to get locations: public Location getLocation() { try { mLocationManager = (LocationManager) context.getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE); // getting GPS status boolean…
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Converting Longitude & Latitude to X Y on a map with Calibration points

If i have a jpeg map with size sizeX, sizeY and some calibration points on the map (X, Y, Lon, Lat) What would be the algorithm for calculating the corresponding XY point in the map with a given Longitude / Latitude pair?
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objective-c MKMapView center on user location

I'm trying to zoom into the user location as the center reference for the screen. I have this code: MainViewController.h #import #import "FlipsideViewController.h" #import #import…
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Real time GPS Tracker on JUST HTML / JS and Google Maps to be run on a handphone? Is it possible?

I have read up on GPS Real time tracking and found out several things about it, mostly requiring PHP, zope and a database to store the incoming data. Some other methods uses ajax with relations to PHP. As regards to my question, is it possible to…
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System.Data.Spatial DbGeography.Distance units?

When measuring the distance between two locations using the DbGeography.Distance(otherLocation) what is the unit of the distance? Even the msdn information and the intellisense fails to specify the unit of the distance. Anyone knows? [edit] I'm…
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Determining the speed of a vehicle using GPS in android

I would like to know how to get the speed of a vehicle using your phone while seated in the vehicle using gps. I have read that the accelerometer is not very accurate. Another thing is; will GPS be accessible while seated in a vehicle. Won't it have…
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DGPS corrections on Android

I am developing a project that is intended to use the GPS capabilities of an Android phone and a nearby station to compute positioning to a much more precise degree (cm), using RTK DGPS technology. So far, I haven't been able to see anyone saying…
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GPS: How NTP time injection works

I've recently known about a gps.conf file in the /system/etc/ directory. Seems that tweaking NTP_SERVER values to NTP servers nearer to the usual location improves TTFF. Reading the source code in the LocationProvider class, seems that at boot, time…
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react-native check and prompt user to enable Network/GPS

I am looking around on how to check if network or GPS are enabled on a device when my application starts. And if they are disabled prompt the user to enable it. Is this posible in React-native?, and is there any class or tool that could help with…
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Google's Geocoder returns wrong country, ignoring the region hint

I'm using Google's Geocoder to find lat lng coordinates for a given address. var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(); geocoder.geocode( { 'address': address, 'region': 'uk' }, function(results, status) { …
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Fused Location Provider unexpected behavior

this is how I register my app to receive location updates: mLocationRequest = LocationRequest.create(); mLocationRequest.setInterval(Consts.ONE_MINUTE *…
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