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Directions Magazine: GIS
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Your Source for Geospatial Technology Thursday | July 03, 2008

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Skyhook's XPS 2.0 - Location Solutions for Truly Converged Devices

For a cell phone user living in a deep urban canyon, a GPS signal is often difficult to obtain and if you are indoors, nearly impossible. Location determination often requires other means if a clear GPS signal can't be acquired. Assisted GPS provides a backup to a clear line of sight based on triangulating cell tower locations but sometimes the accuracy falls short for some applications. Since its inception, Skyhook Wireless offered the ability to triangulate position based on a database of Wi-Fi hotspots to help solve both problems. Now, the company is offering a way to incorporate all three location determination technologies to solve the problem of indoor positioning and improving accuracy.



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On Adena Schutzberg's article, "Naming Names," Archie Be***y, Grey Owl Analytics commented that...

"the geo-cognoscienti say "provides GPS-aided location-based services"

Most people would say "this is where I am"...or not particularly care, since they know perfectly well where they are.

Technical ubiquity doesn't occur until technology is invisible; most location apps still require active participation in the process.

I think perhaps Plazes is closer to the right model..."

Glenn Latham, editor of GISUser, added...

"Nokia's fast-moving train into location services"... that has to be the understatement of the week - they OWN location services! When you own the world's most widely used OS, dominate the mobile web etc... you're king (for now)."


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