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tuna

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Nov 20, 2009, 5:14:00 PM11/20/09
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Hi all

I'm looking for a golf software on itouch since most of the software
they have on iphone which i don't own an iphone :-(

Please recommend a good one for itouch since I just want to use it for
range finder and maybe storing score of each game (North America golf
course)

Thanks so much

Chris McDonald

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Nov 20, 2009, 5:51:04 PM11/20/09
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tuna <tu...@nz11.com> writes:

As the iPod Touch doesn't have a GPS device, and there's not many WiFi
points around (most) golf courses, an application as described
your Subject: line may be a challenge!

--
Chris.

Tom Harrington

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Nov 20, 2009, 6:00:30 PM11/20/09
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In article
<0e391b51-febb-474e...@b25g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
tuna <tu...@nz11.com> wrote:

You do realize that the iPod touch doesn't have any GPS capabilities,
right? I only ask because your subject line suggests you may be
mistaken.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/

Kurt Ullman

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Nov 20, 2009, 6:19:12 PM11/20/09
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In article <he76go$4d6$2...@enyo.uwa.edu.au>,
Chris McDonald <ch...@csse.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> As the iPod Touch doesn't have a GPS device, and there's not many WiFi
> points around (most) golf courses, an application as described
> your Subject: line may be a challenge!

Maybe maybe not. I was at a friends house who lives on a golf course.
There were 6 different wifi signals available from his backyard on the
fairway. Might not be the best, but might be usable.

--
To find that place where the rats don't race
and the phones don't ring at all.
If once, you've slept on an island.
Scott Kirby "If once you've slept on an island"

Tom Harrington

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Nov 20, 2009, 8:15:53 PM11/20/09
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In article
<kurtullman-5FD47...@70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net>,
Kurt Ullman <kurtu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <he76go$4d6$2...@enyo.uwa.edu.au>,
> Chris McDonald <ch...@csse.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > As the iPod Touch doesn't have a GPS device, and there's not many WiFi
> > points around (most) golf courses, an application as described
> > your Subject: line may be a challenge!
>
> Maybe maybe not. I was at a friends house who lives on a golf course.
> There were 6 different wifi signals available from his backyard on the
> fairway. Might not be the best, but might be usable.

It might be useable in terms of keeping the ipod online, but it's
unlikely to give locations anywhere near accurate enough to compare to
GPS.

Lawrence Leichtman

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Nov 21, 2009, 4:50:34 PM11/21/09
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> In article <he76go$4d6$2...@enyo.uwa.edu.au>,
> Chris McDonald <ch...@csse.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > As the iPod Touch doesn't have a GPS device, and there's not many WiFi
> > points around (most) golf courses, an application as described
> > your Subject: line may be a challenge!
>
> Maybe maybe not. I was at a friends house who lives on a golf course.
> There were 6 different wifi signals available from his backyard on the
> fairway. Might not be the best, but might be usable.

It needs satellites to work some must be a GPS enabled device.

Kurt Ullman

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Nov 21, 2009, 11:17:40 PM11/21/09
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In article
<larry-651B37....@newsfarm.iad.highwinds-media.com>,
Lawrence Leichtman <la...@lleichtman.org> wrote:

I thought there was some way the touch had to figure out where you
were by looking at what WiFi channels were available. Vague memories.

Wes Groleau

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Nov 21, 2009, 11:23:44 PM11/21/09
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Kurt Ullman wrote:
> I thought there was some way the touch had to figure out where you
> were by looking at what WiFi channels were available. Vague memories.

Right. But that's not accurate. When I'm in my house, it maps my
"current location" as somewhere within a 300-meter radius. Different
place (within that area) each time.

At work, it's even worse. About 500 meters.

--
Wes Groleau

Online Journal: Reading in a Foreign Language
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Nov 21, 2009, 11:32:51 PM11/21/09
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In article <heaecf$ta2$1...@news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau
<Grolea...@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> > I thought there was some way the touch had to figure out where you
> > were by looking at what WiFi channels were available. Vague memories.
>
> Right. But that's not accurate. When I'm in my house, it maps my
> "current location" as somewhere within a 300-meter radius. Different
> place (within that area) each time.
>
> At work, it's even worse. About 500 meters.

it depends how well skyhook logged the nearby wifi networks. i've seen
ipods locate themselves with amazing accuracy, right down to the house
and i've also seen the iphone be 5-10 miles off.

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