Qualcomm Improves Integrated GPS

jed_ed said:
Obvious newbie here. If someone has the time could you describe how network triangulation works? It's just out of curiousity.

Thanks

Essentially the carrier and law enforcement (or whoever else is ...
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Triangulation is the basis for nearly all radio-based position-location technologies.

The basic idea starts with measuring the distance of what you want to locate (the phone) from three points with known locations (three towers, or three GPS satell...
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http://www.snaptrack.com/ »

Everything is explained there in detail.

Synchronize your base station pilot signals using GPS and they can replace one or more of three faint GPS sat signals with stronger cell network signals. Suddenly, you have GPS ...
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