Re: [gpsd-users] location lookup

[Tomalak Geret'kal]

On 20/03/2012 19:30, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Tomalak!
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:22:20 +0000
> "Tomalak Geret'kal"<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > On 20/03/2012 19:15, Yan Seiner wrote:
> > > I am running gpsd on an embedded platform in a vehicle.
>
> > Google and similar mapping APIs have geolocation stuff like
> > this. I see no merit in attempting to reinvent it
>
> And how are you gonna ask google when in a car near Silver Lake, OR?
> No cell, no internet, hardly any POTS in that area.  Worse yet google
> now limits the lookup rate to their DB, so a lot of exiting Google maps
> users all of a sudden got broken earlier this year.

Obviously you don't. You apply this information later when 
you're analysing your route.

You can't upload the tagged image to the internet when you 
have no mobile signal and no internet, either.

Tom