GPS Passion » location http://www.gps-passion.net Where GPS becomes Passion Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:33:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Rumours about next Mac OS X to calculate location http://www.gps-passion.net/index.php/2009/02/rumours-about-next-mac-os-x-to-calculate-location/ http://www.gps-passion.net/index.php/2009/02/rumours-about-next-mac-os-x-to-calculate-location/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:14:35 +0000 DutchClick http://www.gps-passion.net/?p=25718 There are rumours that Snow Leopard, the Mac OS X to come, will have the possibility to calculate the geographic location of a Mac computer. Not, like the iPhone, also by GPS, but there are signs that the CoreLocation framework will be used. Developers can have the Mac to locate itself by a technique that was used in the first gen iPhone: the location of WiFi-networks and GSM cells. No GPS necessary…

With only WiFi the system will not be as accurate as with the assistance of these gsm cells. I am very curious how precise the location will be.

[via: AppleInsider]

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