{"id":88,"date":"2007-11-28T20:58:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2007\/the-iphone-google-maps-for-mobile-and-e911-where-is-the-disconnect\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T20:58:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T01:58:04","slug":"the-iphone-google-maps-for-mobile-and-e911-where-is-the-disconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2007\/the-iphone-google-maps-for-mobile-and-e911-where-is-the-disconnect\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone, Google Maps for Mobile, and e911 &#8211; where is the disconnect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/photos\/photo\/928690385\/DSCN0592.html\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1136\/928690385_6131d20438_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0592\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a>Google Maps for Mobile <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/new_google_maps_mobile_gives_gps_like_location\">will soon include a GPS-like ability<\/a> to find your current location.\u00a0 A little while ago <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/gps\/iphone-faux+gps-hack-works-and-is-awesome-301459.php\">Gizmondo wrote about an iPhone hack<\/a> that allows almost, but not quite GPS functionality.\u00a0 The hack itself sounds a lot like the way phase II of the wireless E911 service works, and my guess is that Google Maps is fairly similar.<\/p>\n<p>If you take a look <a href=\"http:\/\/nena.ddti.net\/report6.aspx\">at this map<\/a>, you can see than many states have &gt; 80% deployment.\u00a0 On the FCC site you can find reports of the <a href=\"http:\/\/fjallfoss.fcc.gov\/prod\/ecfs\/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&amp;id_document=6518415798\">e911 deployments completed by cell phone companies<\/a>.\u00a0 Any company that doesn&#8217;t have over 95% of their customers with E911 capable handsets <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/infoworld\/20070830\/tc_infoworld\/91463\">is currently getting fined<\/a>.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s a shame that Google and random iPhone hackers have to reimplement all this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never worked on E911 support (or anything cellular, for that matter), but it seems to me there is an incredible opportunity here.\u00a0 One of the great things about the iPhone is that it drives adoption of data plans.\u00a0 How about including psuedo-GPS capability in nearly every phone as soon as you sign up for a data plan?\u00a0 That would be a huge incentive.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an even more radical idea:\u00a0 why not come up with a standard way to communicate presence and location data so users can do things like local search?\u00a0 It might take use years and millions of dollars to develop proprietary systems to do this, but if we use an open standard perhaps this could be adopted as quickly as things like the web and email.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, operating under an open standard will allow geeks in garages all over the world to develop new social software systems we can&#8217;t even dream of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps for Mobile will soon include a GPS-like ability to find your current location.\u00a0 A little while ago Gizmondo wrote about an iPhone hack that allows almost, but not quite GPS functionality.\u00a0 The hack itself sounds a lot like the way phase II of the wireless E911 service works, and my guess is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[139,80,137,96,138,107,115],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-e911","tag-google","tag-iphone","tag-maps","tag-mobile-web","tag-social-software","tag-web-standards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}