GPS for Nintendo DS

[strat_ax]

With WIFI coming up should be useful..that or just download the map before heading out the door. NEAT!!!!

http://www.gadgetspy.co.uk/2005/08/08/nintendo-ds-gps

 

[Ty]

Now THAT is wicked cool.

 

[Fox5]

Wait, isn't GPS supposed to recieve sattelite signals? Isn't that just downloadable maps there?

 

[Guden Oden]

GPS is just position coordinates. You know which spot on the globe you are with it, but it doesn't say anything about what the terrain looks like. You need a computer program with map data to get info about that.

 

[PC-Engine]

GPS is just position coordinates. You know which spot on the globe you are with it, but it doesn't say anything about what the terrain looks like. You need a computer program with map data to get info about that.

How do you do realtime tracking of your position using the internet?

 

[Diplo]

How do you do realtime tracking of your position using the internet?

Usually you would have the GPS device talk to a GSM Mobile (cell) phone via BlueTooth connection and the mobile phone then would use GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) to talk to a web-server.

I have a PDA with built in GPS (a Mitac Mio 168) and use it for car navigation, using TomTom Navigator and Memory Map for on foot. Very handy

 

[PC-Engine]

Usually you would have the GPS device talk to a GSM Mobile (cell) phone via BlueTooth connection and the mobile phone then would use GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) to talk to a web-server.

I have a PDA with built in GPS (a Mitac Mio 168) and use it for car navigation, using TomTom Navigator and Memory Map for on foot. Very handy

That's how I understand it too, but with this DS there is no built-in GPS receiver? I have this little GPS for my laptop btw.

Ok I think I know where the confusion is. Fox5 was saying that the DS GPS hack was just a software app that needed a GPS receiver for getting satellit signals which I also thought was the case, but upon closer inspection it looks like it's a complete GPS system with a receiver attached.