GPS

[Panrider]

Hi

I just saw a post on from a guy on the Android Pit saying that the Scroll has GPS.

Can anyone confirm that?

Thanks

Mark

[Diego]

I don't think so

[Fonefixer]

I think it has the gps options in the software but no hardware installed

[glostermeteor]

How does Google Maps detect the current location? Surely it must have some kind of GPS locator since there is no mobile phone sim card in it. When I select My Location it takes me right to my present location.

[Fonefixer]

It does it via your IP address I think

[Warpedflash]

Google maps will work of your home brdband and locate you from the IP address that way. try it turn off wireless and look for yourself.

[Diego]

Actually, that did make me wonder. Do the ISPs actually release the exact location of every IP? If so why, and where?

[roguelj]

I think they use a number of methods. During googles street view project, I think they logged the gps coordinates and MAC address of every wireless network point they found. When your Scroll finds a wireless network, it looks up its MAC address in the db, and gets the location.

I think....

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[Diego]

I'm on cable and my wireless has nothing at all to do with my internet connection. I've set my wireless router as a pass-through, connecting the wired and wireless LAN, and my internet connection is managed by my Linux box. There is no way they could get my location from any sort of wireless snooping.

[Detection]

They use a mixture of your IP and the other wireless APs it can find in range to locate you through the net,

Mine is pretty accurate - more accurate than "whatsmyip.org" which thinks I am in Newcastle