Apologies for the top post - my blackberry won't let me post in context. Non GPS blackberrys are capable of ectesplaying from the mobile cell to provide a location fix but unly within roughly a 1.8 km radius. David Morris email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: Terry Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:46:04 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Why not go back to the Toll system? Peter Stockdale wrote: > It would be useful if we could extract the info ourselves from our > mobiles. > I did pose this on the UK Telecom - mobile group but drew a blank. > I as said there- it in there waiting to be let out surely ! The problem is without GPS in the mobile, the mobile doesn't know where it is. Each cell has a unique* identifier which allows the mobile to report on the surrounding cells. The mobile has no way of turning this information into a real location, as it can't possibly know the geographic configuration of the network. The network does (of course) know how the network is connected and so can turn this into a real location. The newer mobiles which have a GPS receiver fitted do know where they are, but that is independent of the mobile network system. Terry Streeter NB Arun - Stockton * Again, a slight simplification. The codes are reused, but sufficiently far apart that there is no possibility of confusion. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
