On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:54:56PM +0200, Peter Str?mberg wrote: > Hi Mark, > It depends on the phone. Nokia N95 attempts to hide the GPS info from other > apps making it dependant on Nokia's own map service. That's probably good > for business > but crap for developers. It will no doubt be hacked, but there may be > license issues.
Um, no. Nokia provides a standard LocationRequestor API. This will look up your location from any mechanism available, as specified by the user: built in GPS, attached Bluetooth GPS, Network lookup, or what have you. The code available in the Nokia wiki: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/GPS_API_in_S60_3rd_Edition Provides information on how to do this. It is also possible to use this API from signed Java and Python applications, and has been demonstrated by Open Source code. Nokia is *extremely* open to hackers: to disparage their efforts like this without so much as googling "gps api n95" and looking at the first couple hits is disappointing. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
