Tag Archives: Positioning

Real Time Trains in Google Maps

Posted on March 22, 2008 by admin

The portal swisstrains.ch is trying to provide real time train poistions on the internet. It is planned to record the locations of the trains via GPS and visualize the location on Google Maps. Currently the site is in ALPHA-phase, we … Continue reading →

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Google Doesn’t Know Where You Are (But It Has a Good Guess)

Posted on February 6, 2008 by admin

The following post is an excerp of a news paper article about Google’s My Location Service, which was recently introduced and is now in beta. Users of Blackberries and many other smartphones can now push a button and the Google … Continue reading →

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