[Asterisk-Users] GPS data from cell phones

[Colin Anderson]

In Canada, Bell is pushing a CDMA-based geolocation service as a
subscription add on to your plan. Unfortunately, you are required to use
their crappy web app although one could probably hook the data with some
well-crafted wget's and grep's 

-----Original Message-----
From: Austin Denyer [mailto:adenyer at ekn.com]
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:13 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GPS data from cell phones

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.


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