[Asterisk-Users] GPS data from cell phones

[Austin Denyer]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 12:41 -0500, BJ Weschke wrote:
> On 11/11/05, Chuck Bunn <chuck.bunn at networkdoc.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know if GPS data is available from a cell phone (GPS cell
> > phone) in a similar fashion as CallerID. I saw a past posting where the
> > GPS data is emailed - which just seems strange... Being able to
> > integrate such data into a dial plan could lead to all sorts of
> > applications. Anyone have experience with this.
>
>  I've heard that it's not publicly accessible, but Nextel/Sprint
> apparently lets you get at it with your applications you develop for
> their phones that have GPS support on them. You must be part of their
> developer program though.

The Nextel/Sprint/Boost phones do allow access to the GPS data via the
JAVA apps.  However, there is a security feature in the phones that
allows the phone's user to disable JAVA access to the GPS data.

The GPS data is also available to E911, but as far as I'm aware, that is
a proprietary system.

Regards,
Ozz.