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2010-01-10 , 19:58
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Out of curiosity, I added the widget Location to the desktop, Menu>Menu>Add widget>click Location.

So here we are, there is my location, pics enclosed.

It is a nice little square of map showed where I am, with street name in font size 3 (?) and a little on/off button on the bottom. The big red dot showed that my gps is locked.

I would like to know if anybody make use this and how.

Another observation:
In order to use gps, or to use it fast, I changed Settings>Location>Networking positioning>Location server:supl.google.com:7276. I saved it, but on reboot, it reversed back to supl.nokia.com and gps is NOT working, as expected. Anybody knows how to change this so it stays after reboot. Thanks.

Another observation:
On a cool log, gps locked faster, when eCoach>New activities is clicked. Once gps locked, one can close eCoach. I wonder why.

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2010-01-10 , 20:03
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The location widget is only a fast way to know where you are right now (it's a lot more faster than Ovi Maps), besides that, i'm not aware it's used for anything.
 

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2010-01-10 , 20:06
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Wow, I hadn't tried that, nice. I am inside and my gps found the location very quickly.
 

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2010-01-10 , 20:15
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Wow, I hadn't tried that, nice. I am inside and my gps found the location very quickly.

It is NOT easy to get a "Wow" from you

Honestly, I am not quite sure what else does it do, the square of map is so small it is not good for anything, I wish it can do some more, like a miniscule of ovi map, allows one zoom in or out or do something more. I am still thinking that must be more to it, no?

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2010-01-10 , 20:19
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I did try it, like yourself I couldn't see the point of it, I always know where I am
 

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2010-01-10 , 20:31
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... maybe if you're kidnapped ... and tied up ... and left outside so that the GPS actually works ... and by some fluke they leave you're mobile phone with you ... and you're able to work it out of your pocket ... and use your nose to get it switched on ... it's useful to have it on the desktop so that you only have to swipe to the right desktop with your nose to find your location ... instead of having to try to click with your nose to get to Ovi maps ...
 

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2010-01-10 , 22:16
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It shows where you are with some surrounding streets, which is worth something. It would be nice if you could zoom and look around a bit. People DO get lost. I remember walking for blocks and blocks in Moscow; I couldn't find a street sign on a main road. All the locals didn't need a street sign, but I did.
 

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2010-01-10 , 23:17
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but the font is so small...can anyone read the street i m on?

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2010-01-10 , 23:26
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I use the location widget as apparently it has a longer timeout on the gps, so if you have trouble getting a good lock when launching maps, you can use the widget to get a good lock first...
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2010-01-10 , 23:59
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It shows where you are with some surrounding streets, which is worth something. It would be nice if you could zoom and look around a bit. People DO get lost. I remember walking for blocks and blocks in Moscow; I couldn't find a street sign on a main road. All the locals didn't need a street sign, but I did.
That must have been what Napoleon felt like.

A better way for me was to make two HTM files and save them in the same directory on my N900. I then keep a bookmark to it on my desktop.

(you do need Maemo GeoLacocation 1.1.3 found in Extras-Devel for this webpage to work)

Try this for "Gmaps.htm"...
( Copy and paste the code into a new text file then change the extention from txt to htm )

Code:
<html>

<head>
<title>Google Maps N900</title>
</head>

<frameset cols="*,76">
  <frame name="Links" src="http://www.google.com/maps/m">
  <frame name="Rechts" src="zoom.htm" scrolling="no" target="Links">
  <noframes>
  <body>

  </body>
  </noframes>
</frameset>

</html>
And then this tweaked "zoom.htm"...
( Copy and paste the code into a new text file then change the extention from txt to htm )

Code:
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="de-at">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Google Maps Zoom</title>
<base target="Links">
</head>

<body link="#FFFFFF" vlink="#FFFFFF" alink="#FF0000" text="#FFFFFF" bgcolor="#000000">

<p align="center">

<b>

<font size="6">

<a href="http://www.google.com/maps/m#II=&z=18" style="text-decoration: none">+</a><br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/maps/m#II=&z=16" style="text-decoration: none">* </a><br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/maps/m#II=&z=14" style="text-decoration: none">* </a><br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/maps/m#II=&z=12" style="text-decoration: none">* </a><br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/maps/m#II=&z=10" style="text-decoration: none">* </a><br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/maps/m#II=&z=8" style="text-decoration: none">* </a><br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/maps/m#II=&z=6" style="text-decoration: none">* </a><br>
<a href="http://www.google.com/maps/m#II=&z=4" style="text-decoration: none">- </a><br>




</font>

</b>


</body>

</html>
Don't forget to put them in the same directory on your N900.




**Thanks to BrentDC and AndiThebest for sparking my interest. Cheers

EDIT: And of course thanks for the extension to the stock browser by Oleg Romashin that can now be found here >> http://maemo.org/downloads/product/M...o-geolocation/ and soon your maemo.org Application Catalog.
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