Most smart phones will support this. The FCC requires that all mobile phones have the ability to identify your location to within about 50-100 meters if you call 911. This is accomplished in different ways, such as triangulating the signal strength from the towers, or using a full-blown GPS chip within your phone, or a combination of the above called Assisted GPS, where it determines roughly where you're at from your tower location, and then uses the GPS chip to narrow it down to sometimes within 3 meters.baraco01 wrote:@oldcurlywolf, what kind of gadget are you using? Sounds a very nice gadget.
If you have a modern smart phone (like an Android or BlackBerry or iPhone or whatever) you can download applications that allow you to use your phone as a GPS. Some offer turn-by-turn navigation, some are tailored to joggers/bikers/etc...and some come standard with the phone as a core part of the device.
I use an app on my BlackBerry called RoadRunnerGPS. http://roadrunnergps.com/ It shows me a map of my route and I can see my speed and elevation at each point of the trip. It's designed for exercise, but I suppose it could be used for tracking vehicle trips as well.
MojoTexas
