Simon Willison’s Weblog

New A-GPS service for Nokia phones. Appears to look up your cell ID against a global database to find nearby satellites, dramatically reducing the time needed to get a GPS fix.

# 6th August 2007, 11:26 pm / agps, cellid, gps, location, mobile, nokia

The Zonetag API Goes Public. Awesome new API from YRB—given a cell tower ID can provide both a location and a list of suggested tags, based on data collected by ZoneTag.

# 2nd June 2007, 12:53 am / api, cellid, location, tags, yahoo, ydn, yrb, zonetag