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- My Blackberry’s menu, the 7th icon goes with “Latitude”!
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- Getting to Office, Mark the circle for my location ..
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- I’m on the move …
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- Latitude menu ..
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- Plus the satellite view like google map!
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- Zoomed out view!
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- Our office!
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- Another one!
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- Little detailed view with flow of traffic!
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- Our office, again … we could zoom the whole roof!
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- Going home …. zoomed out ..
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- Other part of the city …
Before the battle starts, any military commander decides to position himself to see how it turns out every second. He has to receive direct information from multiple sources that have views of whole battlefield areas. They do plenty other things like triangulation for selecting the best place for Observation Post (OP).
Let’s not talk about that but triangulation and how it is being used in daily life.
Now, my six years old daughter can track me every minute whenever she wants to. She can actually visualize me moving out of office and all the way to reaching home. She has plenty of time doing that after school. She does make necessary arrangements for tea with the help of maids, minutes before I enter home. Isn’t that sweet? What else do you want from this world?
I’m trying to buy a symbian OS phone for her mother – I could make similar arrangement, as she is back from her office! Me as a homemaker?
Thanks to google’s location based service (LBS) “Latitude” to make dream come true. The best part, my wife doesn’t know about this yet. Well, you must be knowing, when FCC mandated GPS based cell phones in US back in 2001, the husbands knew their time to roam was over!
Actually, here in this country, we loose it on the marriage day!
Come again? You have no right to do that.
My nightmare(?) started when I did download google map in to my blackberry last year. I could see my position only, but google started sharing locations between phone to phone and/or pc this month. It’s creepy, right? It’s fine with me at least, as long as no homing missile is after me!
Get to the point, I hear you saying that.
When latitude (this small piece of software on my blackberry) turns on, it actually tries to reach any available GPS satellite, mobile tower or Wi-Fi access point (AP). The moment it triangulates between three or more links, it shares your location to the rest of the world. Phones like mine don’t have much CPU power to compute this complex issue, it actually sends out locations (raw data) of GrameenPhone’s mobile phone BTSs, (all BTSs have GPS built-in), then google’s assistance server plot that for my daughter on her games pc. Some people might call it to be Assisted GPS or A-GPS.
What those have to do with Bangladeshi landscape? Glad you asked.
In my case, the blackberry is using multiple mobile towers – it actually gets me down to a 100-meter radius. Thanks god, this model didn’t come with GPS, I would be locked down to a location in few meters. Actually, the map of Dhaka is really good; I’m working with the direction thingie, the missing part for a great city like Dhaka! Will you join me?
Finally, am I frightened?
You tell me! It’s “Shock and awe”!!
I read some of the people have lost their jobs, cause they had been found elsewhere! You might keep your phone in your dashboard; it works like vehicle tracking solution, without the triggering part when you are outside of your designated area.
What else they say?
You can run but you can’t hide.
Lets talk about methodologies on information harvesting next week!
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