How to use GPS in mobile phone
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can communicate directly with Google Maps for mobile.
For those who cannot wait any longer, you can use your
own portable GPS with Google Maps for mobile.
(Device tested Blackberry 8700, Google Maps for mobile
version 1.3.2)
If you have a small portable GPS.
For example, sometimes when you travel with your car
in a non familiar region, you get lost. Here is what you
can do to get directions.
A) Find a safe location on the side of the road where
you can park your car.
B) Start your portable GPS and get a position Latitude
and Longitude of the location where you are, that
means your vehicle.
C) Start your Google maps for mobile and press the
menu " Find Location " / " Enter an address " and
write down the Latitude and Longitude of your vehicle
as follows: Ex: N 45 37 17.5, W 73 48 57.0 and press
OK. (You can get more info on all possible formats
used to enter a Latitude and Longitude in Google
Earth to this address.)
D) The mapping of your location will appear. At the
center of your screen, you will find a red icon(1)
which is the actual location of your vehicle. If needed,
you can zoom-in (get closer to the ground) or a
zoom-out (move away from the ground). Don't forget
that you can execute rapid zooms (two or more
zooms in sequence without waiting for the result of
the previous zooms). You can toggle from the Map
View and the Satellite View.
E) If this overall view is not sufficient to indicate the
directions that you have to follow, Google Maps for
mobile can create a list of directions for you. In the
menu, press " Directions " and choose the position
of your vehicle as your " Start Point " and any location
you know (ex: home) as the " End Point ". The
directions that you have to follow will appear on your
screen in multiples segments. You can toggle back
and forth between segments. Before starting your car,
be sure to reset to zero, the trip odometer of your car.
Look on your screen and read the direction and the
distance you have to follow for the first segment.
Verify also if you have to change direction by making a
180 degrees turn. Memorize or note the length of the
first segment in km. Start moving your vehicle and at
the same time, keep an eye on your odometer to find
how much distance (km) you have to go, to get your
next segment. When you arrive close to the beginning
of the next segment, activate the next segment on your
screen for the next instructions to follow. Reset always
your odometer at the beginning of a new segment and
follow the same procedure for the remaining segments.
The mapping will show the beginning of each segment
as you move.
Anywhere you move, you can access the local
information of that place. (Google Local).
To get this info, you select in the menu " Find Business "
and you enter " restaurant " for example, and you press
OK. You don't have to indicate the location of your
research. Google Local will start the research of any
restaurants in the region located in the center of the
screen of your mobile. So, before using this menu,
it is very important to locate the center of your screen
over the location "where" Google Local should start
his research.
If you have Google Earth on PC.
When you are surfing the world with Google Earth on
PC, you have the ability to extract the latitude and the
longitude of any locations that are important for you.
Make the necessary moves and zooms to identify your
place precisely, and place your cursor over a detail of
that location. Look at the bottom of your screen and
write down the latitude and longitude of your location
(your cursor). You can write all those coordinates in
a text file on your mobile.
For example, compare the places of this list on Google
Earth on PC and on Google Maps for mobile. You can
make a copy/paste of these coordinates.
Pink rabbit in mountains
N 44 14 39.63, E 07 46 11.16
Mickey Mouse smiling
N 48 48 19.71, E 02 07 03.99
2 people playing tennis
N 42 21 47.14, W 71 06 46.49
Eiffel tower
N 48 51 30.93, E 02 17 40.50
If you apply identical levels of zoom on both Google
applications, the Plan View or Satellite View will be
the same.
If you don't have Google Earth on PC
You can also extract coordinates from a version for
Google Maps on PC adapted by InfoSports at this
address.
http://www.infosports.com/m/map.htm
With this version, you must precede your coordinates
by E or W, N or S, because the longitude precedes
the latitude.
Ex: W 73.8158333333, N 45.6215277777
Marcel