[Geowanking] iPhone Geolocating technology?

[Allan Doyle]

I have not seen the actual keynote video, but in the MacRumors live  
blog it seemed as Steve Jobs said "it knows where you are" or  
something when he looked for a Starbucks. But no specific mention of  
how it knew that.

	Allan

On Jan 10, 2007, at 09:55, Marcus Kirsch wrote:

> If any of that is true, then it will definitely leaking in the next  
> few months, apart from that for urban projects, there was a company  
> a while ago offering GPS-like positioning through trigonometrical  
> use of surrounding wireless antennas.
> Sorry, I cant supply the link, it's been nearly two years ago I think.
>
> marCus
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> Joe Germuska wrote:
>> So, it seems to be underreported in the coverage of the Apple  
>> iPhone, but I've seen a couple of references to it having some  
>> kind of positioning technology.  Actually, a photo caption in the  
>> Chicago Tribune's "Red Eye" tabloid says that it's actually GPS.   
>> I had guessed that because of cost it might be some lower  
>> precision technology (but I don't claim to know that much about  
>> the tech details or costs, hence my interest in getting opinions  
>> from members of this list...)
>>
>> Whether or not it's GPS, it seems like this is worthy of more  
>> mention.  It certainly looks like someone has finally integrated  
>> positioning with an interface that satisfies me in an overall  
>> package that is worth while (a bargain, even).
>>
>> I know all about Apple secrecy, but wondering if people know (or  
>> just want to wildly speculate) any more about this...
>>
>> Joe
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