Windows Live Automatic GPS location? - General Questions and Answers

Instead of having to find my current gps manually every time, is there a way to get windows live to automatically determine my gps location when it loads?

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I figured this was a hack on windows live since the options weren't there.
can a mod just repost this in the right place for me?

chronster said:
I figured this was a hack on windows live since the options weren't there.
can a mod just repost this in the right place for me?
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Do you have the latest version?
Live Search now uses cell-id to locate you when it starts up, just like Google Maps does. Usually that is close enough to work with. Then if you need precision, you can fire up the GPS radio. The GPS radio eats my battery, I wouldn't want it to come on every time I started Live Search to look up a movie showtime, or to find a phone number.

crissg said:
Live Search now uses cell-id to locate you when it starts up, just like Google Maps does. Usually that is close enough to work with. Then if you need precision, you can fire up the GPS radio. The GPS radio eats my battery, I wouldn't want it to come on every time I started Live Search to look up a movie showtime, or to find a phone number.
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Ok so cell-id, how does that work? Does it automatically select a location closest to you from a list of pre-specified locations or does it dynamically create the location based off where u arE?

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gps co-ords in contacts

how can one store gps location of a perticular person?
if i am visiting a freind's place in neighbouring city and would like to store his gps co-ordinates in my contact list, how can i do that? this will help me if i am visiting same place next time. this would be helpful in many countries where location can not be found from zip / post code.
thanks
You could save the location in your favorites in google maps, but i don't know of a way to directly attach it to a contact.
gpstoday shows the actual street address for your location, and many among other options, allows you to attach the address to a contact or create a new contact with the current address.
"Single tap to create a new contact with your current location as the address, or save the current location as an existing contact's address. Imagine not having to type the full street address on the PPC keyboard!"​
http://www.geoterrestrial.com/gpstoday/
The only problem i see with that is this.....
dourediff said:
......this would be helpful in many countries where location can not be found from zip / post code.
thanks
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I think it converts it to an address for storage.... and it sounds like there is no address.
dourediff said:
how can one store gps location of a perticular person?
if i am visiting a freind's place in neighbouring city and would like to store his gps co-ordinates in my contact list, how can i do that? this will help me if i am visiting same place next time. this would be helpful in many countries where location can not be found from zip / post code.
thanks
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I've never heard of a standard for it, but you could always simply store it as a note attached to the contact in the format of lat,lon
You can then just typically paste that into things, like Google Maps.
You can also record the spot and later put it into Google Earth or something, then save and load that KML file on the Tilt. If you 'launch' the KML file, all the points in it will show up in the Google Maps application.
joel2009 said:
The only problem i see with that is this.....
I think it converts it to an address for storage.... and it sounds like there is no address.
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Thanks for the replies...
currently i store lat/lon in "Office loc" field of address book of a contact and have to copy paste in google maps if i need to get location on maps.
i guess there is also not any easy way to get lat/lon in "google maps" of my current location / a point on the map. if i dont want to start any other app and need to get gps location from google maps then i need to follow steps below
1. on the map tap on desired location and select "Mark start point"
2. click on "Search" option and search for some poi
3. "Tap for options"
4. "Directions to here"
5. copy gps coords from the "Starting point" field.
is there any easier way than this?
thanks once again.
dourediff said:
Thanks for the replies...
currently i store lat/lon in "Office loc" field of address book of a contact and have to copy paste in google maps if i need to get location on maps.
i guess there is also not any easy way to get lat/lon in "google maps" of my current location / a point on the map. if i dont want to start any other app and need to get gps location from google maps then i need to follow steps below
1. on the map tap on desired location and select "Mark start point"
2. click on "Search" option and search for some poi
3. "Tap for options"
4. "Directions to here"
5. copy gps coords from the "Starting point" field.
is there any easier way than this?
thanks once again.
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now with latest version of GoogleMaps for Mobile i cant get the gps cords at all. do let me know if its possible
thanks
have you considered using trackme (found on xda).
Its great as it logs you journey which can be uploaded to google maps, google earth etc, its useful as you can take a foto and upload it along with your track. You can also view map/track on the app itself.
Check it out.
Also consider noni-plot gps, although no where near as useful as the above.
Happy playing
TIMMY! YOU SOLD YOUR POLARIS?! YOU BLACKSTONE WHORE TRAITOR
will you write some guides in the guides thread already?
nir36 said:
TIMMY! YOU SOLD YOUR POLARIS?! YOU BLACKSTONE WHORE TRAITOR
will you write some guides in the guides thread already?
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lol, yh i did Nir, i didnt want to, but it paid for my blackstone but i do miss it...... i keep telling my wife im going to flash her polaris, but she wont let me near it haha......
As for the guide, yes ive started writing GPS settings guide, as so many peeps ask about it. I think i may have chosen one of the hardest bloody subjects though as it really does depend on so many variables and that there is no right or wrongs!!! So unfortunately that doesnt make a very usefull guide, but i was going to list freeware/useful apps to it, so i guess it might not be that useless after all

Brut (Google maps mod) offline maps

Hi guys,
I'll be going to Spain in August, and will be taking my phone with me. I will be using it with airplane mode on though (I'm taking it as a camera, as my actual camera is worse than the X10's)
I've been looking around for caching Google maps, and found that the Brut mod of Google maps has this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630887
I was just wondering if there is anyone who already has cached maps for Spain (more accurately, Valencia) that they could host somewhere.
I know its hardly likely, but worth asking!
If not then I will be browsing a lot of Spain tonight to save the maps to cache so I can use them later. (and maybe post them somewhere if anyone else needs them)
Cheers
it says you need a rooted phone.......let me know if this works for you.......and sry i can't help...
Bangarillo said:
it says you need a rooted phone.......let me know if this works for you.......and sry i can't help...
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The only bit that needs root is the uninstall of the existing Google Maps.
I can confirm that it does work on a non-rooted handset, I installed the apk using Astro without problems and now run the Brut version alongside Google Maps
And don't worry about it... it was a long shot anyway
this is pretty cool..
sorry i can't help i'm still new to android
but does this mean you can use google maps without incurring data (offline)?
i have an x10 and i am too looking for good pre loaded maps for navigation (i don't have a data plan)
kl25 said:
this is pretty cool..
sorry i can't help i'm still new to android
but does this mean you can use google maps without incurring data (offline)?
i have an x10 and i am too looking for good pre loaded maps for navigation (i don't have a data plan)
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Sort of, yes.
It will only save them to your cache once you have viewed them.
So if you need maps for Scotland, you need to have already viewed Scotland's maps on your phone, for each level of zoom you want to use them in.
Looking at the original thread, it looks like they will be adding a download function, so you can do exactly as you want, (and I do) Download on PC > move to phone > use Google maps without using data/in airplane mode/where you have no signal etc
I can't really answer your question. But did you check out MapDroyd? It lets you download and view your location on maps of entire countries. You can't search or get directions, but the maps contain details such as street names.
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murmeljenta said:
I can't really answer your question. But did you check out MapDroyd? It lets you download and view your location on maps of entire countries. You can't search or get directions, but the maps contain details such as street names.
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Thanks man, this could be exactly what I need... I'll try it locally first test locations etc (one comment said his location was out) but I can still read a map if all else fails
EDIT: It did work, but for the areas of Spain I need are not detailed enough. Cities seem to be OK and rather detailed, but villages (Bunol being the one I need) have nothing at all... just the main roads around the outside.
I will look to save the maps in Brut for the detail...
Try andnav2.
You can download the map files over at this " http://wiki.andnav.org/index.php/List_Of_MapTilePacks/ " link
I hope that you will enjoy your trip to Spain ^^
if you use the brut hack
you now have access to the maps offline, but will there still be navigation or does navigation still require you to have a data plan?
Or you can use mapDroyd :
http://www.mapdroyd.com/
Really nice stuff, free, simple, real
Vilam said:
Or you can use mapDroyd :
http://www.mapdroyd.com/
Really nice stuff, free, simple, real
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Check three posts up
hows the brut mod working for you
its a lot of work to save the map and at all the zoom levels
been taking up a lot of time doing that :S
kl25 said:
hows the brut mod working for you
its a lot of work to save the map and at all the zoom levels
been taking up a lot of time doing that :S
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Yea, that is the main problem... it takes ages, especially to make sure there are no missing gaps.
Thing is, once they are saved it is amazingly smooth to load between zoom levels.
It would be nice if there was an option to download all tiles from a set area to cache...
I think they are working on an update to allow this, but until then I will have to slowly save them to my cache manually
do you know anything about getting directions?
if i want to get directions, do i have to cache the route like i do with the maps?
kl25 said:
do you know anything about getting directions?
if i want to get directions, do i have to cache the route like i do with the maps?
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You don't HAVE to... I believe (but may be wrong) that google maps will temporarily cache a route's map tiles for a journey you have selected. If you go off route, normal Google maps would connect to to 3g to get the new map tiles.
I haven't tried the navigation feature with just cache tiles though, so I don't know if you can use it purely off line
Vilam said:
Or you can use mapDroyd :
http://www.mapdroyd.com/
Really nice stuff, free, simple, real
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does mapDroyd have turn by turn voice guide navigation as googlemap ?
thanks
Anyone have problem with Google Maps won't closed problem? It always running at background and drain the battery.
Someone here said you should not run any task killer and let droid take care of it, but why let map running at backgrand all day to drain the battery out?
i don't know abt u guys but i think MOTONAV is pretty cool!! it provides turn-by-turn and the maps are installed into the SD
so basically it works jz like garmin~~~
don't ask for the apk or maps, if u really need it pls google it
SiRIus[X] said:
i don't know abt u guys but i think MOTONAV is pretty cool!! it provides turn-by-turn and the maps are installed into the SD
so basically it works jz like garmin~~~
don't ask for the apk or maps, if u really need it pls google it
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Sounds promising...
Does it have the ability to pinpoint your location on a top down map as I won't be driving and really just want to be able to find my way around a strange area
Copilot
Copilot is another alternative, works brilliantly on the X10.
Available on the Market and I'm sure via some Google browsing too

[REQ] Maps App

is there and app that can use google maps to show my location and get my coordinates and still be able to insert coordinates ...and other options like record tracks ...it would be very helpfull when going fishing thanks
Look for one of any Geocaching applications, tracking programs, etc.. You clearly haven't even looked in the Market yet.
Be aware that actively tracking takes a lot of battery. If you're just looking for "where did I start" you could launch it before you hit the dock, drop a waypoint, then when you're coming back in navigate back to that point. Even a "where is my car" app would work for that.
i searched everywhere the best i could find is mymapseditor
Google My Tracks combined with Gmaps and Google Map Editor. Awesome.
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a7mdo said:
i searched everywhere the best i could find is mymapseditor
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Seriously??
http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=track
i think you didnt get what i wanted...all of those i cant add a coordinates in the app in a simple way its all edit gpx and that takes time...and i wanted something like scroll the map and point to a place and just save it...all of that is garmin features but am looking for the second best thing
khaytsus said:
Seriously??
http://www.appbrain.com/search?q=track
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a7mdo said:
i think you didnt get what i wanted...all of those i cant add a coordinates in the app in a simple way its all edit gpx and that takes time...and i wanted something like scroll the map and point to a place and just save it...all of that is garmin features but am looking for the second best thing
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Look again. Like I said in the first post, any geocaching program will do it. You said "place a point on a map" and I assume you also want to navigate back to it, but regardless, ANY geocaching program will do that. Among many others, including "where is my car" type apps. And NO they do not require creating GPX.
Good grief.

[Q] Is there any GPS software that can show satellite view maps offline?

I have tried searching but could not find a topic to match what I'm after.
Does anyone know of a way to get a satellite views with GPS support for use offline? Ideally I could do with GPX (routes/tracks) file support as well.
As far as I know google earth is only available for android and does not have offline cacheing - I would have to make my phone dual boot as well (I need windows for some things)
I have tried J2ME for google maps but cannot scroll and I don't think can use gpx routes.
To make it clear what I'd like is to view my current position on a satellite map with a route (gpx file) shown on there as well. I need to be able to do this without access to a phone network.
It's a shame I can't just run google earth from my HD2 since that's exactly what I'm after.
Hi mate,
how to run google earth without network access?? this wont work on your pc either.
but maybe this is helpful for you:
i recently discovered that google maps on winmo is capable to display .kmz/kml files. these are google earth exports with e.g. a track.
if you just need to display a small area, load the track in google maps. on next start up your last loaded "picture" is cached and therefore u dont need network access. otherwise if u want to navigate you should get something proper like tt or igo.
edit: this should be your match: http://www.gps-mate.de/de/produkte/GPS-Mate/beschreibung.php (using osm)
feel free to use the thankmeter
regards
maybe this will work for you
p107r0 said:
maybe this will work for you
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here is the link to the XDA thread of OpenMobileMaps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=597957
huepfer said:
here is the link to the XDA thread of OpenMobileMaps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=597957
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thanks, that's what I was looking for to suggest, the other one came instead
men8ifr said:
Does anyone know of a way to get a satellite views with GPS support for use offline? Ideally I could do with GPX (routes/tracks) file support as well.
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NoniGPSPlot with NoniMapView
p107r0 said:
thanks, that's what I was looking for to suggest, the other one came instead
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I have been trying open mobile maps but cannot find how to get satellite maps on there. I found a 1 year old thread on here about changing the maps.xml file and tried that but either doesn't work or I am missing something. There is an option at add maps with a URL but I don't know if this would work with google satellite maps and I can't find out what the url shoudl be.
hgdorn said:
NoniGPSPlot with NoniMapView
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This looks promising - a dumb question though can I use version 3.02 for ;pocket pc' or 'smartphone' ? I don't know if the HD2 running windows mobile is classed as either of these things?
men8ifr said:
This looks promising - a dumb question though can I use version 3.02 for ;pocket pc' or 'smartphone' ? I don't know if the HD2 running windows mobile is classed as either of these things?
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NoniGPSPlot for "PocketPC" is running perfectly on my HD2 (and my old Trinity).
Tip: Don't remember to quit it when you don't need it anymore 'cause GPS uses lots of battery power. Tap on the main screen for a few seconds to get to the main menu.
I dont know what you are really searching for...
But I think best solution is navicomputer.com
hgdorn said:
NoniGPSPlot for "PocketPC" is running perfectly on my HD2 (and my old Trinity).
Tip: Don't remember to quit it when you don't need it anymore 'cause GPS uses lots of battery power. Tap on the main screen for a few seconds to get to the main menu.
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I can get noni gps to run i used the smartphone files. the problem now is downloading the satellite maps in enough detail on my pc with the noni application it will take several weeks or months to download the 8gb of data i need.
extrapurifier said:
I dont know what you are really searching for...
But I think best solution is navicomputer.com
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Looks like navicomputer doesn't support any satellite views
Thanks for the suggestion though.
men8ifr said:
I can get noni gps to run i used the smartphone files. the problem now is downloading the satellite maps in enough detail on my pc with the noni application it will take several weeks or months to download the 8gb of data i need.
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Do you need a satellite view of the whole world?
Zoom to the interresting place an then adjust the slider how deep (that means how many zoom levels of) the images have to be downloaded.
Mobile Atlas Creator
http://mobac.sourceforge.net/
I've been using NaviComputer 0.96 on my oversea trips. I would download maps (can be satellite maps too) before leaving, add POI and have no problem using if offline while on oversea trips. Best of all, it's free. It can do gpx tracks and log file too.

[CLOSED] Help playing at a casino...

I am trying to figure out a way to play in this US casino because i like there slots. You can deposit from anywhere. Withdraw from anywhere. BUT you can only play from New jersey. Is there a way i could change my location to say im located in New Jersey. Some sorta VPN or something... Thanks for taking the time to read this.
jcole6197 said:
I am trying to figure out a way to play in this US casino because i like there slots. You can deposit from anywhere. Withdraw from anywhere. BUT you can only play from New jersey. Is there a way i could change my location to say im located in New Jersey. Some sorta VPN or something... Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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If the app uses GPS to detect your location, you could try 'Fake GPS location". It's a free app where you can pick any location from a map, but there might some apps that can detect it.
Thank you I'll give it a shot
jcole6197 said:
I am trying to figure out a way to play in this US casino because i like there slots. You can deposit from anywhere. Withdraw from anywhere. BUT you can only play from New jersey. Is there a way i could change my location to say im located in New Jersey. Some sorta VPN or something... Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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If you have xposed I believe there are modules that allow you to spoof your location setting by providing fake GPS coordinates. I'm not sure what the exact name is since I no longer have xposed but if you browse through the modules thread on xda you might find something useful.
I wish I could I've got a rooted metroPCS Lg K7 with no custom recovery or roms and can't find no xposed either. Thank you very much for your time though. P. S. You run into any roms or TWRP for said device shoot me a line. I'm actively looking hours everyday as well....
ChrisJosten said:
If the app uses GPS to detect your location, you could try 'Fake GPS location". It's a free app where you can pick any location from a map, but there might some apps that can detect it.
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I tried a couple of those and didn't work... Website saying something about I'm using a GPS blocker or something like that
You should try some VPNs, I don't know which one can locate you in New Jersey anyway... Maybe a Google research about a certain location will help you
yeah the comment above are great suggestion but i don't recommend this. You're basically breaking casino ToS and in withdrawal process they can hold your funds ...
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