Find longitude and latitude

[kkrish]

Hi all members,

Can any one tell me, Is there any way to find longitude and latitude if device does not have GPS supported hardware.

[Nitesh Bhardwaj]

some time befor i was faced this situation at that time i stored some database and use some maths algo,by which i got this information.may be there are sum api but i did not get yet...
i know this is not good solution..

[petrib]

If the device does not have an actual GPS receiver, and if you do not have an external GPS receiver either, then you need the network operator's support (they have to provide you the information via proprietary or standardized location based service, LBS, support). An operator-specific solution will only work with those network operators who support that approach (only global solution that is indepdendent of operator support is real GPS).

[kkrish]

Hi,

Does some one know that can I do something using network triangulation if yes then how can i do this?

[Paul.Todd]

You can get the cellid and then use something CellDb (http://celldb.org/) to get the pos of the cell, this how apps like google and nokia maps do it when quick location info is needed (hence the red blob around the position, this being the signal strength I think).

You can't triangulate as there is not enough cell info to do it.

[kkrish]

Hi Paul.Todd,

Its really a wonderful link but might be they do not have a db for india.