GPS for iPhone and iPod Touch
This guy has successfully engineered a GPS Module to interface with the iPhone and iPod Touch, bringing true GPS to the devices made by Apple, Inc. This should be an exciting project for anyone wanting to use their iPhone as a GPS device. Imagine the ability to cache Google Map’s directions and follow the route in real time. This functionality would fit in nicely with a car holder for the iPhone. The current GPS feature Apple released in January 2008 actually triangulates the positional data based on the relative position between the device and cell phone towers. GPS triangulates position using satellites in orbit, and is thus more accurate (around 3-6 meters). Seems like the project has moved into the final design phases, so a GPS solution for the iPhone should be on the market by next year hopefully!
I have a blackberry curve (8310) with GPS. It is great! I use google maps and can even have it show the satellite view while tacking my movement.
or… you can just buy the new iphone when it is released
or… you can buy a map for 3 bucks.
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It would be a real shame if Apple didn’t support some sort of non-jailbroken GPS function. They gave the cell phone market a kick in the pants; why not the Tom Tom folks, too?!
I would love to not have to buy a Tom Tom if I could use the Ipod Touch I already have!
This thing is making me consider switching to a Mac! I’ve been dissing Mac for decades now. Pull me through, Mac, pull me through!
is that GPS receiver for iTouch is sold commercially?
This is a killer app for many active people. I’m a cyclist and would love a Garmin 705, but at $600 CAN with maps and 900 grams I’m going to have to wait. There are some smaller cheaper GPS handhelds and watches that could turn the Touch’s screen into the nicest portable GPS out there. If someone could integrate that with a bike mount (with options for speed, cadence, heart rate and power meters for the training-obsessed) I’d be sold. Water resistance and possible impact might be an issue, so it might be best if the GPS receiver can function and record on it’s own, or connect with the Touch for mapping and training management. A GPS-watch would be a good form factor for wireless Touch compatibility too.
There’s already iMapMyRide (and iMapMyRun) for the iPhone: http://www.imapmy.com/
Give us the choice to use other GPS devices with the Touch. Yes the iPhone has GPS, but that’s not for everyone.
What about that Microsoft Street and Trips (a GPS that you can connect to computers thru USB that sells for less than $90.00) is there a adapter to connect USB to Ipod Touch, and a software that works with it??
If you have a cable/connector that allows access to IPT/Iphone’s pins 12 and 13 (TX/RX serial) you could use the Microsoft Streets and Trips module (without the USB tranciever wart). The only thing is you would need a converter between the two to convert the 3.3V logic level to the 5V TTL that the GPS module uses.