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Where Does The Blue Dot Come From?

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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Where the Blue Dart Comes From

The promise of the stafes podcast is that we're going to be talking bout where the blue dart comes from. So in a previous conversation you mention this idea of the fused location service, i believe you call it. And for most people, they still think in terms of the blue dot, that's my location that comes from g p s, or this thing that's called g p s. In reality, the blue dot represents quite a lot o of complex technology and different services systems that are running both on your mobile device and may be running on the network,. To help locate where you are. One of the big tasks anyone designing a mobile phone application that uses location is around power

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