[Geowanking] Verizon Location Services Walled Garden

[Kevin Elliott]

Charles Bolton wrote:
> All,
>
> I use Verizon's Navigator product on the Razor phone.  It has really been a
> good solution for me.  I went from using a Garmin XL 12 and just punching
> the lat/longs or entering a point that I wanted to return to and used the
> GOTO arrow for years.  More recently, I have been using the Garmin with
> Street Atlas on my small laptop when I travel for navigating around.  Since
> the summer, I replaced the Garmin with a bluetooth GPS.  And in October, I
> upgraded to the Razor and installed the VZNaviator on my unit.  I really
> have not used anything else since.  Check it out.  It is also good for
> finding locations of points of interest (restaurants, gas stations, etc)
> within proximity of your current location.
>   

The big problem is, it's a closed platform, and there are very stringent 
policies for 3rd party developers. Additionally, in some cases it costs 
the end user per lookup. I know that the VZ Navigator does not work on 
any of the PDA platforms.

Kevin