Parabellum
01/10/09 12:06 PM
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This BBC Article tells how a local police department used Google Maps Street View to find a kidnapped girl.
Quote:
Officers used GPS in the girl's mobile phone to find her approximate location.
They fed the co-ordinates into Google Street View, pinpointing a hotel where the child was subsequently found.
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nic
02/09/09 02:49 AM
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Many movies and TV shows lately have been showing images of Google Maps and/or Live Maps when tracking down people/suspects/Jack Bauer. Main-stream mapping has become a lot more prevalent lately, which is really cool to see.
Now, the article talks about using GPS in the girl's phone to approximate her location (using cell tower AGPS, which is basically triangulation). Yet the next sentence talks about pinpointing the hotel. I'm not sure that you can pinpoint exact locations with AGPS... does anyone know how accurate AGPS can be?
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