[Sigia-l] Decent exposure

[Ziya Oz]

Jonathan Baker-Bates:

> A small point, but does the iPhone have a GPS? The presentation didn't
> seem to refer to this, so I assume it doesn't.

There's a bit of confusion about that, from general articles such as this
from Forbes that says it does:

<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/01/09/ap3314961.html>

to the possible use of FCC A911 requirement on all newer cellphones that get
location by triangulating signals from cell towers, which can get you rough
proximity, but no navigation.

to the speculations about the GPSMapURL key in the Localizable.strings file
inside the iPhoto app bundle that would presumably hook up with geo-tagged
iPhone photos.

I'm not sure if the iPhone actually does have GPS, but, in any case, it
doesn't look like it exposes it for third party access.

My comments/examples there were really about the obvious potentialities of
such devices and how that can change how, as designers, we can utilize them
to rethink actionable data/info exposure: don't Google-search or text-enter
your location, you're already there.

Ziya
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